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Biggie clowning Wilder. love 2 see it

remember remember the bombers of November .. 1987. Best team Cal Murphy ever coached, according to the man himself. Laid an egg in the playoffs. so many teams win the Grey Cup after indifferent regular seasons.

the challenge mooted.

450 yards and no TDs. That's such a CFL 2021 stat. there's the Lucky sweep! #lapoball

"start the process of decertifying the election, or whatever the correct legal remedy is." that is some sterling work by trump's attorney there.

that reminds me of what my dad told me on my wedding day ... "son, don't toss ugly floaters off your back foot into the middle of the field," he said.

Panel is lit like they've been hitting the laughing gas. Can't blame em after having to pump the tires on yesterday's snoozefests.

good crisp drive for a FG. Can't be that casual in the final minutes, Lions. More entertainment in this game so far than in both games yesterday.

Nice to see Andre Bolduc doing good work in the league. when I was a Rough Rider season ticket holder in 1996 the RRs had to start him at RB because they were down their two regular RBs and couldn't afford to bring in anyone else. He had not played RB since high school. They won two games with him at RB, averaging about three yards a carry. Good times. Some days I can't believe the CFL still exists.

good lord Mike Reilly throws a nice deep ball. hit Lucky perfectly in stride.

Forde and Smith not a great pair to call this game ... like both these guys but they're too sedate to pair well with each other. need a Neilson or a Dunigan in there. good job on Smith and TSN getting the clarification out there.

trap game

Week 7 Stamps @ Hamilton Huffer, D!ck and Bo exiled from football heaven; Stamps' paradise lost. Week 7 Argos @ Saskatchewan Dear coach Dickenson: Please put Jamal Morrow in, -- signed, Suitor's boner.

Kate Beirness is all out of lipstick apparently. Lovin how she calls it the way it is.

ouch, that was a pretty feeble attempt at a lead block by Hamilton #20. Could've sprung his QB for a first down, there was all kinds of room there.

naw, they really lean into the violence. there is some brutal brutal stuff in that show. the thing that made me say uncle was

hey, I'm just watching Boardwalk Empire now, finished the second season last night. It is peak **** and gore HBO, with lots of really grisly violence, esp in the second season. I'm taking a break from it because really it's too much. It's much more casual about violence than Breaking Bad ever was. The plotting and cast are top-notch tho. It's gripping to watch.

I wish I had time and data to run the numbers on the winning percentage of CFL teams in games where their starter is making their first start. Whatever it is, I bet it is not great.

wow, this is a great story ... what a different time!

Forde is not normally my favorite, I want more of a character in the color role and he doesn't have a ton of personality that I can detect, but I'll pay more attention next time I see him paired up with DN because on paper they'd work together. DN just seems like such a massive dork for football, love that vibe of someone who loves the game and can fill airtime agreeably. While the guy is no Cuthbert yet he's a real breath of fresh air for TSN.

yeah, dude is a journalist, or is at least journalist-adjacent. I'm actually curious what the league says about any controversial officiating decision, so good on him. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Rod Smith and Matty are the best team that TSN has right now and it ain't close. Rod drily tells you what happens and then Matty hypes the living **** out of the play or calls bullshit on it. It's a great dynamic. Farhan Lalji wasn't too bad with Dunigan either last weekend. I think the new guy Dustin Neilson is pretty good too but I don't think he and Dunigan would work well together. too much of the same kind of energy.

Jim Zorn, another weird Bomber QB story. Signed after an illustrious NFL career when Tom Clements was hurt in 1986, we wound up not needing him much because Hufnagel got on a roll. Zorn did replace Cameron as Kennard's holder, he was a top-flight holder apparently. When he did get some playing time, in the garbage fire of the 1986 final vs. BC, he struggled mightily. My favorite part of this story is the part that someone here on MBB told me after I spotted a Zorn jersey in the stands, apparently he still has friends in Winnipeg. gotta love this league. Steve Pelleur was another NFL guy who showed up briefly in 1995, after three years out of football (!) He got hurt and that was the end of his career. overrated? who is out there pumping Kerwin Bell's tires? Does anyone have fond memories of a Bell game? Did any of those garbage time flurries turn into garbage time miracles?

Fave obscure bomber: QB Jay Walker. He got a single start in the garbage time of the Reinebold era (JR was already gone but you know what I mean) and it was a work of art, the best QB play we'd seen in years. After that he wanted to be paid like a CFL starter, the bombers balked, he did not re-sign, and Kerwin Bell was our QB the next year. Always wondered what would have been with Jay Walker at QB in 1999.

discipline is also playing to the edge of the rulebook .. no one on the Bombers crossed the auto-disqualification line. they did some dirt but none of it rising to the level where the officials didn't have a choice but to toss 'em. veteran savvy. that said, I wouldn't mind seeing helmet tear-offs like Harris' get added to the list of no-discretion DQs ... that's a real dangerous looking play. No place for it in the game. also wouldn't be surprised to see supplemental discipline handed out this week.

Cheaper travel. The CFL can't be flush with cash right now, I bet this is an economy move.