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you bet man .. you look at the giant gaping holes the line is opening ... the big guys getting out in space and blowing up DBs downfield... the guys coming in late after Harris is wrapped up,making the defence pay for letting them run free after the play moves downfield ... all glory to Harris but man did Lapo put together a sweet running game here and our guys executed it with great precision and spirit. My favorite block so far is Bailey torpedoing a ticat DL at 2:23, the TD that got us rolling in the Grey Cup. The ticat dude looked like he was mainly concerned about playing contain on Collaros and he was a bit flatfooted and Bailey took full advantage.

Meanwhile, in Washington State: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/washington-state-rep-matt-shea-engaged-in-domestic-terrorism-against-the-u-s-says-state-house-inquiry/#comments The WA state government is thoroughly democratic, but the state GOP has kicked Shea out of their caucus in response to the investigation. When you inspire such bipartisan unity in this day and age, you are a special person indeed.

I'm def gonna go see it in the next couple of days, I'm a hopeless mark for most things Star Wars. The only SW movie that was completely devoid of all enjoyment for me was Clones. As much as I **** on Force Awakens, I was completely with it until the bad guys had yet another goddamn planet killer that needed to be blown up in the nick of time by snubfighters. That **** was old in 1983 when Jedi repeated it, though jedi gets a big pass from me because the Luke/Vader/Palp scenes are so dope, they justify the lazy plotting and the ewoks. Praying to baby yoda that yet-another-superweapon isn't the plot of Skywalker. See you in the spoiler threads.

well to be fair the Bombers don't currently have any QBs under contract for 2020 and maybe dude thinks they will ... forget to sign one or something?

Will Oliveira be ready to go at training camp next year? Heartbreaking what happened to the guy this past year ... really rooting for him to be back. Don't see him listed on the CFL 2020 FA list so he's still got time to go on his Bomber contract, right?

from your mouth to god's ears Mark. somewhere someone will develop a vaccine for Type 2 diabetes out of old tires and microplastics, but CNN will be like OH BOY TRUMP TWEETS DUMB **** and so no one will notice. it is goddamn amazing the power that narcissists have to dominate the discourse. I've been around a few real top-level narcissists and even when you're sick of talking about them you wind up talking about them.

hero is searching for reclusive Jedi to aid in fight against space fascists hero is captured by bad guys in lightning bad guy raid. Bad guys are terrifying and good shots hero stows critical information in droid droid wanders the desert looking for help person with mysterious parentage and boring marginal lifestyle winds up in possession of the droid person with mysterious parentage is, in fact, strong in the force person with mysterious parentage is gifted a lightsaber by wise & mysterious elder captured hero is rescued from bad guy's installation by good guy dressed as stormtrooper heroes blast out of desert planet aboard Milllenium Falcon bad guys have a planet killer bad guys blow up NPC planet with planet killer bad guys point planet killer at heroes' planet but planet killer is vulnerable to snub fighters! heroes run around planet killer base, shooting stormtroopers and trying to sabotage its workings. bad guys can't shoot for ****. snub fighters blow up planet killer with seconds left to go! amid the action, dark wizard confronts his nemesis one-on-one heroes watch helplessly as beloved older-generation character is slain by dark wizard I'm sure there are more but I'm out of time. I mean, seriously, even for Hollywood, where everything is a copy or a sequel, that is some really photocopied plotting, way way beyond homage. It's like JJ got the wrong directions, instead of "Make a Star Wars film" he got "Make Star Wars."

Anyone who watched Lost to the end knows that JJ is a total hack. The Force Awakens was the laziest possible photocopy of Star Wars, dusted with lots of dumb JJ ohhh-soo-mysterious plotting. Like when the casino lady asks Han who Rey is and the scene cuts .... that's lazy ass filmmaking. If TLJ dumps a lot of TFA in the garbage, that's fine. Nothing of value was lost.

Holy **** people are still soooo mad about TLJ? Y'all got triggered hard. I thought it was a flawed gem. And porgs are awesome.

This is gorgeous, nice work!

WF vs. the riders prob. looks a lot different if they don't try to make their wounded QB run a lateral sneak on a long 3rd-and-goal in the 4Q. You wanna talk about an OC overthinking things...just a terrible terrible call. I think we were full value for the wins against the cats and the stamps, but we really needed a couple decisive lucky breaks to win in the WF. That's fine, I don't think our cup needs an asterisk or anything.

GOOD NEWS HAIKU TIME canuck mafia stomps the stamps. dickenson is no Untouchable

all these declarations about how Pierce will be a certain kind of coordinator who will have a certain kind of offence and how he'll be able to develop players in a certain way ... are laughable. we haven't seen one play of a Pierce-run offence yet and people already know how it's gonna go with him there.

dunno how much future Davis has with the redblacks considering that Lapo kept him around for a couple seasons as the QB2 and heir apparent. Then when finally he got his shot when Nichols got hurt in late 2017, he lasted like two quarters and suddenly the Fever was starting (and winning) the We Beat Calgary On The Road With A High School Offence game. you know, a typical stubborn O'Shea team move, sticking with their plan no matter how badly it goes.

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I've watched every episode of the Fabulous Blue Bomber show but I don't think I had really seen fabulous Blue Bombers until today.

that whole thing where you go nuts at the Bomber store when you get back to Winnipeg .. yeah. this came home with us in 2016. Tag says it's the jersey is a small, our pooch is about 18 lbs and long wiry but it still fits pretty tightly. The fun part is that people in Seattle are endlessly confused about why our dog rocks a blue University of Washington sweater. U-W has a very similar block-collegiate W logo but they're purple and gold. Wonder if Nichols gets the same thing if he wears Bomber gear when he's at home in eastern WA.

Love the Maston signing. He was the guy who blew up the Riders' 4Q 3rd-and-goal sneak in the WF. Clutch!

Hope that Collaros gets a nice pregame Grey Cup ring presentation ceremony or something the first time he comes back to Winnipeg. From broken-down castaway QB to out-of-nowhere Grey Cup hero, that's a great story to add to Winnipeg's football lore; give the fans another chance to applaud him.

awesome for Kongbo. Hate seeing the Blue lose players, but always happy to see a Blue alum get a shot at a bigger stage, and while I know very little about coaching DL I sure as hell noticed Kongbo when he was on the field. Saw him in on quite a few downfield tackles, just love seeing DLs rev up their motors and chase plays from behind. go get em, JK!

in her position, I'd be thinking about Year 2, because I'd be worried about ZC suffering a career-ender in 2020 and being a free agent by cutdown day, not even cashing his full 2020 salary and not cashing any more QB money ever, because football treats its players like complete ****. I've got lots of friends who do lucrative but unreliable freelance work and having that stable income from the partner is the thing that makes it work at all.

Loved watching Hobart as a kid, he made a lot of exciting things happen on the field. He's not nearly as physically dominant as Streveler, but he was definitely big for an 80s QB and he could sure run in the open field. The last thing he did in the CFL was back up Damon Allen in Ottawa. Whenever Allen went cold the fans would get on him by chanting HOOOBART. I've heard that Hobart actually encouraged the fans from the sidelines. Gotta wonder what that did to the room. Here's some Hobart playoff action, in 1985 he absolutely destroyed the Concordes in the EF throwing for 400 yards and five TD passes. He was a career 49% passer but just could not miss on this day. Also watch for young Wally Buono turning up as a coach on the Concordes sidelines. He looks about fourteen years old. Didn't work so great the next week, though. Started the Grey Cup as a rookie and Don Matthews' bunch humbled him.

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, pound the table.

Tracy Ham was a killer rushing QB in the 80s-90s. Owns three of the top five single-season QB rushing records, hit 1000 yards 2x and 998 once. Before him there was Ken Hobart, but Hobart was more of a 1-dimensional player.

just finished another one of my own songs. It's called Semi-soar and it started out as "Portishead gettin sexy with a mellotron" and wound up as "guitar hero having a very sad day."