johnzo

I love this whole ridiculous league of ours but I love the bombers the best. I love the Als because they play in an adorable stadium in a beautiful city. I love the allcaps because I lived in Ottawa for the death of the Rough Riders and the 15000 or so die hards who reliably showed up to watch a no-hope three-win team are true fans who deserve success. I love Toronto because the double blue is ******* sharp, and also if I don't love them who will? I love Hamilton because all the Ticats fans I have met in other CFL stadiums have been cool chill people. I respecr Saskatchewan because somehow they got a 12-win season out of a 4-win roster. And whenever I meet CFL fans in the USA, 3 out of 4 of them are roughies fans and they're usually cool. Haven't got much use for the Alberta teams, I guess, and BC is meh.

Since he was born in the USA, he's more like our Ben Cahoon. I remember how people used to ***** and moan that Cahoon wasn't really a non-import, back when he and Calvillo were killing us 3x yearly...

Here ya go!

Speaking of 1983, Youtube user Werner Miles has uploaded a bunch of 1983 CFL games, including our western final loss that year: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOkyALs3xT-LNvo0HaFDyFA/videos?pbjreload=10

September 24, 1983. My very first live Bomber game, with my mom and dad. I grew up in the wilds of Northern Ontario so being in a crowd of 25,000 roaring partisans was something new and amazing to me. We beat the green riders 50-19. It was a perfect time to board the bomber bus because Dieter Brock had been traded the week before and the team was finally evolving from contender to champion. Nickie Hall started and got a big cheer when he was introduced, but he got dinged up so Tom Clements finished. Willard Reaves ran completely wild, something around 175 yards. I remember vividly the giant flame that shot up out of the stands when the Roughriders scored. As an 11-year-old, I thought it was super cool, but as an old guy now I can't believe that was actually a thing that happened, it looked pretty dangerous. Since then I have been lots of places and seen lots of things, but I still feel like a little kid when the blue and gold take the field -- doesn't matter if it's Clements and T-Jones or Harris and Bighill or even Goltz and Muamba.

How do you know that it wasn't the video replay official who changed the call from lateral to incomplete pass? They don't announce when that guy helps out on a call.

Gotta say that the refcam was pretty cool today ... it's so easy to complain about missed calls, from the refcam you could see exactly why the hit wasn't called on the field. Tough to appreciate how chaotic and crowded the game is from the couch or even the stands..

Hmm .. Seattle to Calgary is a direct 2.5-hour flight... Looks like a 2-night saturday-monday stay, no good flights on Sunday....

Neufeld gets a semi HH for taking a shot at Edem right after Edem took that unpenalized crap shot at Wolitarsky on the sidelines. plus one for good intentions, but minus a bunch for costing us a field goal.

Some HH love for Darvin Adams -- he didn't stretch the field, but he had three second-down conversion catches, all of them in traffic.

yeah, by the 2018 CFL rules there have been lots lighter hits ruled to be RTP, so if the ref hadn't been blocked by the saskie OL, that would've been flagged for sure. Hope Bridge is okay. All bests to him.

that is not a flagship advertiser for a pre-kickoff spot in a playoff game

70% was pretty average kicking performance for Westwood's era. Paul Osbaldiston was career 72%, Mark McLoughlin 74%, Terry Baker 72%, Prefontaine 72%. McCallum was a 70% kicker for the first decade of his career. Something happened in 2006, suddenly the leading kickers were 80%+, and since 2011 we've had multiple 90%+ kickers every year. This year, there were four, and Medlock just missed with 89.6% It's amazing how much better kickers are now. Maybe it's like goaltending, where the coaching suddenly got a lot better?

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people are talking about Mike Reilly moving west, but does David Braley have the scratch to make it happen?

Reinebold lurking in the Lions org, maybe Hervey promotes from within and then whoah time is a flat circle.

like that overhead shot on the QB sneak, really a great camera angle for that play.

whoah, that long sideline toss to Burnham was uhhhhgly. Lulay really looks like a guy in the twilight of his career.

This is how I have always pictured you, man.

It ain't easy being a lefty! I could use a couple extra hands here -- it's hard to endorse my Soros cheques at the same time I'm swinging my antifa hockey stick and drying my snowflake tears... Hopefully the commies will set up some genetic engineering programs.

My HH goes to Dunigan for doing his best to rescue the TSN broadcast. Love listening to Matty watch football ... half analyst, half lunatic fan.

somehow this was the game of the week.