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Yeah but he nailed it Zontar. We don't hate Rider fans. We hate the Priders because truthfully they are @$$..... & p....s. And then you have the Riders calling themselves Canada's Team & putting up billboards in other CFL cities. They can go **** themselves.

The Riders actually called themselves "Canada's Team"? They deserve all the **** they get.

Or he could be a thorn in the side of negotiations as now he's working for MLSE. Time will tell.I really can't see that but I guess some people like seeing the negative side of a situation. Just sayin'. You never know.

Or he could be a thorn in the side of negotiations as now he's working for MLSE. Time will tell.

Has Rene Curran fallen off the face of the Earth? What is going on with him?

I just want us to make the playoffs first. Once they get there, I'll start thinking about what kind of a run the Jets might make.

Leonard Nimoy explains the origin of the Vulcan Greeting hand gesture...

Well, that's you. And maybe Bill too. Either way it's his business. Yep. That it is

That's funny. I like your post. Made me chuckle. Grigsby's a POS.

Well, that's you.

That's it. No player coming the other way which is strange considering Calgary lost Mark Giordano maybe for the rest of the season. They're challenging for a playoff spot.

I think the people piling on are classless. I would have gone too. But there is no doubt bill loved him. And people mourn in their own way. I think in the years to come he'll come to regret his decision... But he felt obligated to attend the charity event.

Stempniak traded to the Jets for Klingberg.

Personally, if I was Shatner I'd have gone to Nimoy's funeral. But that's me. Really, two days isn't much time to change plans. I respect his decision to attend the charity event.

Glitter's song should be expunged from existence.

He meant to say November. Freudian slip. This is the Bombers we're discussing. They don't play in November.

I saw a game from about 1982 on tv earlier this week. Watched it for about 10 minutes. The Rangers were playing & Glen Hanlon was in goal. I always thought he was a pretty decent goalie back in the day but he looked terribly slow on one goal. I forget who the Rangers were playing but they came in on a 3 on 2. Tick, tack, toe they scored. Defense out of position. Hanlon had to get from the left side of his crease to the right basically throwing himself in front of the shot. Today's game the goalie would have had reflexes like a cat, anticipate, fly across & stack the pads with at least a chance to make the save. We've all seen it before how it's done. However, Hanlon came across on his left knee & left a big hole between his right & left leg where the shooter put the puck for the goal. You'd just never see that kind of sloppy play from any goalie in the NHL today. I was wondering what he was doing as he looked terrible. He really never left his feet. Just threw out his rt pad hoping for the best while sliding across on his knees. No wonder there were 60 goal scorers back then. And Gretzky was scoring 200 points plus. When Gary "Suitcase" Smith & Pierre Hamel were our starting goalies you can see why the Jets struggled for a few years in net. But I will say, the goalie equipment was MUCH smaller than today. You can really see the difference. And the hockey helmets the goalies wore with the cages back then couldn't have been very safe.

It's absolutely worth putting the artist together with the art. And if they're pieces of garbage, their art should suffer. People need to held accountable for their crimes. Would you listen to music written by Josef Stalin? If Stalin made some decent music then I would have no problem listening to it. People still listen to the Beetles and we all know how John Lennon beat his wife. That's Yoko you're talking about.... Lots of fans would have applauded John as she's still despised & hated. And just to be clear it's the Beatles...

but back in your day it seems like there was more curling going on and it was easier to get involved with anyway. It just seems to me that even at the club level it's gotten too competitive to be easily accessible to newer players. It really killed the mens league and bonspiel in the town I grew up in. guys tried to put in stacked teams to win and you took away from the overall field. I just know that when I started we had the "Schoolboy Bonspiel". We had something like 500 rinks playing all over the city back in the mid 70's. Then it changed to the Junior Men's Bonspiel. It started Dec.26th & went to Dec.30th something like that. The last year I was in that bonspiel we lost to Dale Duguid's rink in the semi final of the Free Press event. (They were the most dominant junior team in Manitoba at that time so to hang in there & play well against them even in a loss was cool). I know the numbers are waay down from when I played in that bonspiel to maybe a third of what it was 40 years ago. The age for juniors back then was 21 & not 18. And it was in the high schools. Then the CCA took it out of the schools & put it into the curling clubs in the late 70's & lowered the age to 18. I still remember being in university & playing in all night bonspiels when I was 21. There was one all nighter at the St. Vital & there was this young teen skipping his own rink. His name was Jeff Stoughton & if he was 16 back then I'd be surprised. It was a lot of fun & being over 18 we could go to the bar & have a drink after the game. Socializing upstairs after the game was a huge reason why the older junior curlers liked all nighters. I always thought those 2 moves by the CCA killed it for junior curling in Canada. At Churchill High School I was on one of 3 teams that curled in the junior bonspiel circuit in the city. And we were all friends but we had a healthy rivalry going all the time. Lots of talking going on all the time during the season. I really don't think I'd have got involves if curling wasn't in CHS at the time. It seems like the social aspect of junior curling is long gone. I don't think the all nighters are played anymore.

Noeller, I don't want to sound like the old guy saying he walked ten miles to school one way twice a day everyday but kids today don't realize how good they have it with the access to junior development programs & coaching. If only they had this back in my day. I think it's great.

I'd still be playing if it wasn't for arthritis in my left knee & right foot which makes setting up in the hack & sliding out impossible. I used to take great pride in my delivery & practiced for many hours over many years to perfect it but I was never satisfied. Because of 4 surgeries to my left knee, I switched from the tuck delivery to the flat foot. With the help of Ray Turnbull it took me about 3 or 4 months to feel comfortable with my new delivery but it was never the same. After the switch I became a much better hitter but going from the tuck to the flat foot caused my draw weight to be inconsistent. I wasn't as good with my draws using the flat foot as as I was with the tuck which was hugely frustrating at times. Hence I dropped down to lead from third when I played. I always went out whenever I could to throw rocks at Fort Rouge before I moved to Alberta. I'm sure if it was today switching from one delivery to another with the coaching that is available compared to thirty some years it would have made a tremendous difference with my ability to draw. But in the late 70's & 80's there was no coaching. Any thing you did to tweak or change your game you did on your own. Or you asked one of the well known curlers to help out. I remember asking Billy Walsh Jr to help me with my slide & to tell me what I could do to improve. So, I went out & threw rocks while he sat upstairs watching by the glass in the bar at Fort Rouge while sipping a drink for about 20 minutes. Today is so different from back then. Is Curl Canada still around? I haven't thrown a rock in years now but I still watch the game although I have to say that because I no longer curl I'm not as interested in the game as I used to be.

The bad thing about a province having to qualify for the Brier & not making it is that the game won't grow where there is no Brier representation. The Brier is bigger than the World Championships. It gets huge media attention in this country as well as huge TV ratings for TSN. With Nova Scotia out with a population of about a million there goes the interest for anyone to get into curling in that province. I think it's short sighted decision & misses the big picture. This is not going to help grow curling in that province. But that's just me & how I feel about it. I got into curling many, many years ago because I saw Don Duguid win two Brier championships back to back in 70 & 71 on CBC. Churchill High School had a Monday afternoon curling club at the Fort Rouge CC that I joined in October of 71 when I was in grade 10. If I hadn't seen Duguid on tv wearing the provincial buffalo on his back I doubt that I'd ever had curled. So, I think not having every province represented is a mistake.

Yeah. That was a long time coming, Jacquie.

Saddened to hear the news. RIP Leonard.

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