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Finally getting to watch this ... damn, Mike Miller looks like he's shooting a hostage video in his Touchdown Atlantic promo. "Do not attempt to rescue us ... we are being treated well."

We're down our QB1, our WR1, a couple of starting guards, a couple of starting DLs, a starting halfback, and now our MOP tailback. On paper we're doomed, but crazy stuff happens on Labour Day and the Riders will ln coming in fat and happy after dumping Ottawa. We got em right where we want em, go blue.

Those slants the Riders like so much will be opportunities for that Hall play where we drop a DE to cover that lane. Wonder if Kongbo has any hands?

The hat that is pictured is a maga hat not a keep america great one.

check out this beauty block by Bighill on the Rios pick six. Ball is tipped, Gable standing around, Bighill and Rios are barely in the frame, but they get on their horses... Rios grabs the ball, Gable is still kinda ambling around, but he's in position to touch Rios down... Nope. Bighill runs past Gable, spins 180 degrees around at full speed, gets both hands on the only guy who can make the tackle. And so... Just love watching these guys rally to each other. What a team.

yeah I saw that too, the way he was moving I thought the spotter was gonna demand the concussion protocol, but nothing came of it. Hope he's ok.

passing game ice cold, dude calmly jogs out with a five-point lead and 6:31 to go. He throws for two quick first downs and our winning drive is rolling. clutch.

My HH took a regular turn on the DL, including on the 3-man front with Kongbo and Big WJ, and he did not look out of place despite having zero elite football training prior to this season. On Rios' pick-six, he pancaked the Eskie LT, crashed the pocket, and rendezvoused with McCallister at the QB. And late in the second quarter, his pressure forced a rare Edmonton 2-and-out. After that play, Suitor said that Harris overreacted to the pass rush, that he was "feeling pressure that's not there." Ladies and gents, my HH tonight is Thiadric "Not There" Hansen. Honourable mentions to Edmonton 41 and 43, who gave us the winning TD by dinking out with some boneheaded penalties. That team is definitely taking the personality of its coach. Can't generally win a game getting outpassed 5 to 1 without a huge break, and that play was ours. Dishonourable mentions to everyone involved in the attempted explanation of the (roughing? contacting?) the kicker noncall.

https://youtu.be/aOC8E8z_ifw

Damn, I forgot about the Cardinals. St Louis has really been jobbed by the NFL...

So stoked for this, the cast is super lit. Giancarlo goddamn Esposito in Star Wars!

Will they knock anything off the ticket price if you wear a Romulan uniform to the games? I kid, I kid. I might go to a Dragons game just to check it out, esp. if there's some ex-CFL players to follow there. Was just in San Diego and every second ad on my phone was for San Diego State Aztecs football ... "we're staying to represent San Diego!" they all said. As an old Wpg Jets fan, I really feel for these great football towns that the NFL is crapping on .. but then can't feel too bad for St Louis since you have a Stanley Cup as a consolation prize...

A couple years ago I flew from Oakland to Seattle the Monday after a Raiders home game. The passengers were me, my wife, and 250 Raider freaks, most still dressed up in their gear, and in one case, with fresh corpse paint makeup. I bet the LV Raiders will have a *lot* of fly-in fans. It's so cheap to fly into Vegas, and Raider fans are a special breed. Sucks that their owner is such a greedy ******, tho I shouldn't cast stones because I've never been in the position to turn down a half-billion stadium subsidy because of my loyalty to my best customers...

Such a great photo, avatar-worthy.

Wonder who the emergency QB3 is for the game this week? (hoping I don't learn the answer to this question obvs)

remember when we were trying to figure out precisely where the massive voter fraud happened in 2016? So is the chair of the Federal Elections Commission.

no, I seriously think that Johnny Manziel will get another CFL shot, and that SamCanadian's best football years are still ahead of him.

as a QB, does Bridge's passport matter in more than a warm and fuzzy "yay 🍁 QB!" way? anyway, here is my ranking of potential free agent Bomber emergency airlift pivots, disregarding all other factors, like whether they are physically capable of playing, willing to unretire or are admissible into Canada. I think Atomic is right, not a lot of great options out there. Ray > Glenn > Lulay > Bennett > Willy > Pierce > Bishop > Crompton > Fever > Max Hall > Buckley > SamCanadian > Brohm > Bridge > Manziel

My only point is that LeFevour is better than Bridge. I don't want either of them but I think we'd be marginally less boned with the Fever running the show than with Bridge.

Dude won games for Chris Jones who in 2018 had an occult power to win games he had no business winning. Seriously I'd rather see the Fever back. Dan L is just as good a runner as Bridge and has had a couple competent passing games in his career.

Brandon Bridge is not a CFL quarterback. Dude is like what would happen if you took Bishop and subtracted every ounce of upside. No thanks.

Labour Day / Banjo Bowl is weird tho. That's what makes it so awesome, records don't matter, starting QB doesn't matter. Justin Goltz won a Banjo Bowl. Matt Nichols won one on two days' practice. Brett Smith beat us. Rocky Butler. 1-7 vs 7-1 in 2011. And Cody F. is far from the worst QB rolled out by either team. Truth is false and logic lost during these rivalry games.

I think back to that game against Calgary a couple years ago when the team abruptly soured on Davis and rolled out the Fever. Our offense looked like a high school offense -- Fever was 13/19 for 91 yards, but zero picks. We won the game because Calgary was having their usual late season snooze and Andrew Buckley was brutal, and the turnover battle was 7-2 in our favor. A very Lapo/O'Shea win, we played boring and let the other team beat itself.