johnzo

I am not an expert in college football but everything I've read says this is a pretty big deal https://www.npr.org/2019/09/30/765700141/california-governor-signs-bill-allowing-college-athletes-to-profit-from-endorsem

Is the hypothetical ninth planet in our solar system actually a tiny primordial black hole? This paper says ... perhaps. https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11090

cocaine is a painkiller? that's an off-label use...

Glenn starting for the Bombers in the 2019 Grey Cup would be the ultimate unfinished business storyline. this board would be bonkers. (knocking wood, I don't want this to happen .. but if it did, whatta story it would be)

yeah. I have respect for almost any pro football player who can go out week after week and perform in an elite setting. The level of dedication, discipline and perseverance one needs to get to even the CFL level is way beyond anything I've ever accomplished, and I've got accomplishments that I'm plenty proud of. That's not to say that all football players are saints deserving our worship, or that I'd even like any of them as people, or that they're entitled to a spot on the Bombers. It's just that I respect how hard they've worked to get to this place where they can entertain me. Doesn't matter whether it's Chris Walby or Michael Bishop or Roc Carmichael or Willy Jefferson. Respect 'em all. and so yeah, it's annoying to me too to see keyboard warriors calling out football players as cowardly or timid. Especially a guy like Nichols who has come back from some pretty gruesome injuries in his career and who is a huge reason for the team's turnaround since 2016. especially as a starting QB who has to find targets downfield and keep his cool while people like Shawn Lemon are trying to ******* behead him. (I dunno about you, but if Shawn Lemon were coming for me, completing a pass downfield would be the last thing I'd worry about, because I am programmed to think like a rational human being and not like a quarterback)

I suspect questioning Rudy would be complicated given that he can claim attorney-client privilege. But the dude is such a random shitshow that who knows if he'll be able to keep a lid on it when he's under questioning. For federal criminal trials in the US where attorneys are effectively co-conspirators, like in organized crime scenarios, there are ways to compel attorney testimony. Don't know how it would work for Congress.

The thought of our two-beast backfield feasting in the playoffs is awesome, yeah, but I'm worried about the pounding Streveller is gonna take. He'll have a bullseye on him.

YOU SHUT YOUR FILTHY MOUTH

a tiny, tragic mystery: how does a man come up so that he becomes the most irritating sportswriter at a paper that also employs Paul Friesen?

ffs man, I invite you to lie down on your stomach, prop yourself up with just your right arm, elbow on the floor, and then get Shawn Lemon to bellyflop on your shoulders. After that you can make judgments on who's brittle and who's not. Soon as I saw how Nichols went down and then how he left the field pointing at his shoulder, I figured he was Lulay'd or Khari'd. I suspect the dude isn't just losing a season over this. I'm sad for him tonight, he was a warrior who turned around the Bombers' program after a lot of years in the wilderness. His win-loss record with us is absurdly good. I'll always be a fan of his. If I remember right, he's doing sports management courses at Gonzaga, so he's positioning himself for the next act.

when you're wondering about the severity of Hefney's sentence, the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution may be instructive: Follow the money. Prison labour in the USA is a ******* disgrace. All those people mad about competing for work with immigrants, when they also have to compete for work with millions of incarcerated people...

(Delete, missed that the Atlantic Rudy article was posted earlier)

"Concerned" for a GOP politician is much like "thoughts and prayers" -- a meaningless catchphrase of performative, placating empathy. See also "troubling."

I dunno how easy it will be for the GOP to quit Trump. He's got that narcissist superpower of always managing to be the subject of conversation and advancing no matter the tone of that conversation, so Fox and the GOP can't just ghost him. If Fox and the GOP go hard at him, his tweets will ensure that war burns bright and sucks all the oxygen out of whatever else Fox is trying to hork up at them moment. He's not just going to go away quietly and paint pictures of wounded soldiers like GWB did.

My guess is that the post-Presidency Trump will settle into the role of a GOP influencer / kingmaker, taking money, and making tweets and rally appearances. Fox has been grooming the GOP base for him for a generation; those GOP voters are in the tank for him for good. Career-minded Republicans are right to be wary of publicly defying him. Ben Sasse, who was all humphy and nevertrumpy at one point, bent the knee to get a recent endorsement tweet. Lyin' Ted Cruz started licking the trump boot when Beto gave him a scare in Texas in 2018. Lindsay Graham, once John McCain's best friend, now just another loudmouth with Trump's hand up his ass.

Like I've said before, the one upside of the Trump administration is watching the worst people in the world be abused by the worst boss in the world.

I remember back in 2010 the Fabulous Blue Bomber Show was interviewing Jyles and they asked him a question about audibles, and he said something like "we don't ever call audibles, there's reads for me on every play no matter what the defence." Maybe I heard that wrong, but would that even be a thing, an offence that has no audible plays designated?

whoah. Between Pelosi saying the I-word and Britain's highest court ordering Parliament be reopened, it's been quite an international news day I think it'll be like the Barr report; its superficial and incomplete truth will be presented as the complete and definitive story.

On PI, has the standard changed away from zero tolerance for contact before the ball arrives? On at least one of the recent Rose interceptions, there was clear contact between Rose and the receiver before the ball arrived and I was surprised it wasn't challenged. It was incidental contact and would never have been called before PI got stricter, though. It's weird how the emphasis on QB safety hasn't resulted in fewer QB-games lost due to injury. But I gotta say I'm impressed at how CFL teams are coaching up and rolling out their new starters:. Arbuckle, the Leveler, Adams Jr, Evans, even Fajardo and MBT. Given the number of QB injuries across the league I was expecting the Grey Cup to be a Bridge vs. LeFevour type game, but the new guys have done all right. My concerns about the state of CFL football are all existential. How long can the league keep going in its present form, when so few want to go to games in Toronto or BC? Even when those teams are competitive, attendance has been terrible in Toronto and soft in BC, worse than even the bottom times in the 90s. And the Als sale is dragging on and on and on. I kinda wonder (based on zero evidence) if TSN is advancing the CFL money on the recent TV deal extension to help keep the Als afloat.

The 2012 Tiger Cats are my favorite flipside example -- top scoring team in the league, finished last in the East because Casey Creehan's D was so so so so sooooo bad.

there's a tweet in another thread that says that Newf still has a week to go on his six-game, so the question is moot.

hell, the Bombers' last win in 1990 was without a 1000-yard receiver. Rick House was our leader with 883 yards, if statscrew.com is to be trusted. clicking around on statscrew, I see that James Murphy somehow got 1400 yards in 1988 ... man, that's some Stegall-level work considering the QBs we rolled out in 88.

oh man I would love to go to this. have fun you guys, and I hope the fans aren't just the human wreckage who call into radio shows. "yeah Mike, less of a question, more of a comment ... you know what I think the Bombers should do? I think you should try to score a touchdown on every drive."

would you expect that Neufeld would be rostered against the Als when he's just had his first week of practice in like ten months? Can a vet shake off the rust that fast? (asking because I honestly don't know ... just seems like a lot to ask a guy who's been on the shelf for nearly a year)

Me: you know I don't think much of Trump but at least he got rid of that crazy kill-em-all motherfucker John Bolton. Trump: hold my beer