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And that is pro sports and a lot of businesses, too.

His interview performance had nothing to do with any speech impediments. The "y'know" thingie shows up in a lot of interviews and doesn't do the interviewee justice.

Never a bad idea to kiss up to your new boss.

Mr. Pierce was interviewed on 1290 this afternoon, and, to be charitable, the team should limit such in the future. A third of his statements were "Y'know"s and the rest was peppered with hoary cliches. I hope he does better in communicating with his charges.

I think i could live with Bethel-Thompson and McGuire as quarterbacks this year, and it may come to that.

I should think that someone from the Bomber organization would take the initiative to come onto the fan website and make the announcements like this one. It would make many here feel like their support of the Bombers was of value.

Its like cars- its not the year, its the mileage on the chassis that counts.

I do not think that this "global expansion" was all about finding better players. I see that as a bonus if such can be found, but more likely it has to do with advertising. International companieslike Coca cola, Adidas, and Ford are more likely to advertise and pay well for programming that are watched in Europe, Asia, South /America etc.

Isn't Hecht down in the States for tryouts?

I think that would be the death of the CFL.

The QB position has got to be the most demanding one on the team. Many an athlete has pronounced him/herself recovered and ready to roll, but the team found out that was not so. I would think that a good athlete does not have to lose high percentage of ability to become a so-so performer. This may be so with Nichols- in the past, when he was injured but still able/willing to play, his performance dropped off a lot. And he is a year older now, so his being able to win and keep a starting role is iffy.

Shouldn't be a problem, either. We have dozens of people doing it every day.

We should be okay with Mr. Donahue- we do not have any tunnels. Just a few underpasses.

My beef with this is that there have been a number of Canadian QBs who have shown promise but have never made it in the CFL. As is obvious the grooming of QB in the Canadian university is not as good as in the US of A and need more time to develop, but they rarely get it. Allowing teams to roster NI quarterback and not have it count against the salary cap or roster numbers might give us a chance to see a NI quarterback become a legit starter.

And may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits and crotch.

And to Tracker.

My grandfather screamed at them that the Titanic was doomed and that there were not enough lifeboats, but no one listened. They did ask him to leave the theatre, though.

The chat room was fun only so long as there were a dozen or so participants. When it worked, it was a good deal more immediate than the GDT.

Or we find another who is even better, and maybe, just maybe a Canuck.

You promised you wouldn't tell.

Nope, but for many of the previous years, i felt like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football that Lucy was holding. She had yanked it away repeatedly, causing him to fall flat. She would then tell him to try again with promises that despite the past, this time would be different. He would hesitate, but with all manner of assurances, he would set aside his well-founded fears and charge at the ball, only to have it pulled away once again at the last moment.

Patience, grasshopper, patience.

The point of my comment was that, in 29 years, we've had our hearts broken repeatedly by the Bombers, even when it looked like they were shoo-in winners and its hard to believe that suddenly we were going all the way. The Riders, despite where they finished were not that good a team.

Hmmm.....Huffer is going all-in on Mitchell and may live to regret it. And Ottawa paid surprisingly little in exchange.

If you are a fan of the ironies of history, here's one for you: the Brits and the Yanks were about even in the war that led to American independence, and about as many colonials were against independence as for it until the British decided to bring in "contractors"- who were mercenary Germans called Hessians. This angered many of the undecided colonials to the point where they sided with the rebels and the tide of war swung against the Brits. Now the Americans have been hiring mercenaries that they call "contractors" in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan producing the same anger in the locals. These mercenaries have been recruited from all over the world and are those who have often been dismissed from places like Chechnya, Nigeria and South African armed forces for what would be called war crimes. They are paid much more than US grunts and do not have to adhere to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, resulting in unjustified killings that go unreported.