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I think that Alex Brink was a big factor in the decision to punt. Would O'Shea have punted it away against Calgary or Toronto or any other team with a functional QB?

good god, that first half was a toddler slap-fight. And those terrible pigeon-poop uniforms! Watching on TV I couldn't even identify who got straight-armed by Sutton in the 3rd. For a long time, the best looking thing on the field was J-Crompt's stache. Crompton looks like he got traded to the Als from 1976.

It confuses the heck out of people when Bomber game day coincides with Seahawk game day. Especially that one day they were playing the Rams and I was wearing my navy blue Roberts jersey. Lots of double takes.

Yup.

The great Bomber teams from 1984-1990 had mostly all-Canadian OLs. The '84 team had insane non-import talent. In the Grey Cup that year we started eight Canadians on O (Walby, Moors, Bonk, Bastaja, Nemeth, Poplawski, House, Kehoe) and then we had Scott Flagel at safety to boot. That's bananas. How often does a CFL team have nine Canadian starters?

This looks like they've been shat upon by pigeons with dysentery. This could have been so much worse. These things are boring and they're not the right colors but they're not nearly as wretched as they could be. With the Riders sporting seahawk blue pants I was worried we were gonna wind up with an outfit that used lime green as a trim color.

Those signature jerseys look a lot better on the field than the powder blue retros the Argos sported a few years ago: (also pictured is Milt Stegall, breaking the career receiving yardage record)

Never good news for the league when a promising young QB goes down with a serious injury like this. Best of luck to LeFevour for a speedy recovery.

My wife on seeing the Rider's signature uniform ... "Why don't they they just play in green zentai suits? The only way to make these uglier would be to add a yellow codpiece."

Oh for Christ's sake.

... and then missing the FG anyway ... and getting your kicker hurt

Oof, using your timeout on your first drive...

Hamilton looks even more like the 2010 Bombers. They're competitive, but they just can't get a break, they make boneheaded errors at key times, and they can't win the turnover battle. Maybe they'll be able to turn the corner when they finally get to THF.

Gene Simmons has always been a colossal *******. I'm sorry for your loss, iso.

On my other socials I see people talking about depression a lot more, which is good -- depression is a real disease that ruins lives and sometimes takes them. Support is not a cure, love is not a cure, money and success and fame are certainly not cures. Where I come from, people (especially men) are old school and Just Dont Talk about emotional issues. That's not a good approach. If you're depressed, you gotta acknowledge it and go get some help and treat it as seriously as you would any other disease. No shame in it. You're just another one of the estimated 10% of North Americans who (like me) are sick that way.

I thought these didn't look too bad from the front, but holy crap that name bar. It looks like a pull tab. Tear it off while you're sacking Ray and you win $5!

Damn, this little league has survived a lot. My take is that Skalbania is the worst of all time. He ran the Concordes into the ground and abandoned the Lions the day after he bought them. Runner-up is Feterik, who made the Stampeders a joke but at least he paid his bills. The Glieberguys were buffoons, but they came closer than anyone else to turning the Riders around, producing the only .500 record in the team's final 15 years (1992).

What, no love for Horn Chen?

What happens to the playbook when your OC is suddenly changed? Are they still using Worman's playbook with some Dinwiddie on top of it, or did Dinwiddie implement his own thing immediately, or what?

These things look like garbage bags.

The most hipsterish thing I've seen lately is a 20something kid rocking a vintage royal blue #15 Zorn jersey at the Edmonton game. I got shots of him to show to my friends in Seattle. "He's a quarterback, he was big in the states, you probably haven't heard of him."

Those seahawk blue pants are freaking hideous.

"We should have signed Messam."

Damn I hate those green armpit stains on those Rider jerseys. Just shamefully ugly.