TrueBlue4ever

What about tickets to the game? Hotel? And I thought Flair did not have cancellation insurance per your earlier post. Hope it does not need to be re-scheduled, or if that comes to pass, it is as easy as you hope.

That’s evident from your picks. 🤣 (Says the guy who is now 0-6).

Thanks for the correction.

Very true. Also true that the wolves were howling before the first convert was missed. There’s a post begging for Lirim to get picked up before the Calgary game, and on the game day threads going back to Calgary, one miss and fans are yelling for him to be axed. It’s not like fans were very tolerant of his “less than perfection” before it became full-blown shank-itis.

Some road games and staying off social media would do wonders. Fans here can be pretty ruthless when less than perfection is delivered.

So no takers for the quiz. Answers - 1. 3 of them were defensive TDs, 2 on interception returns and one fumble recovery in the end zone. He also had a punt return TD. 2. So with 2 INT return TDs, he had……….exactly zero interceptions. Both returns were laterals from other players’ interceptions. 3. That year he had 4 TDs in total. All in that game, no other scores the rest of the year. And the same answer for career defensive TDs. 3 in that game, none for the rest of his CFL career.

My memory of him in 2001 was that Mills and Blount would start the game and run heavier sets, wear down the D, then Roberts would come in during the 4th quarter and use his speed outside against a tired team. One game against Sask. in oppressive heat, the Bombers had practiced all week in it and were well hydrated, and by the 4th during commercial breaks the entire Rider defence on the field was on its knees and the Bombers were lined up for the next play. Roberts ran 4 sweeps and went about 15-20 yards on each and Dave Ritchie pulled him from the game and said after it was a mercy pull because he could see that Sask just couldn’t keep up with him and they did not want to run up the score. Roberts was the primary punt/kick guy that year and transitioned to full time RB next season and got out of the return game.

No, no, no. There is only one acceptable meme for this conversation.

The deforestation continues.

Didn’t he say on that video he could hardly wait to get up to the “UFL” and tear up the league? Edit: Thanks Super for verifying, just beat me to it.

Here’s another one for the older crowd. James Jefferson (I think before he added “the 3rd” to his name) holds an astounding CFL record from 1987 when he scored four touchdowns in a game, a record unlikely to ever be broken by a defensive player. Some trivia questions surrounding this feat. Without looking it up: 1. How many of the TDs were “defensive” touchdowns? 2. How many interceptions did he have that day? 3. How many touchdowns did he have that season in total, and how many defensive TDs did he score in his CFL career?

Was at both games. 45 yard line 20 rows up for the Bombers, raced down Portage after the traffic cleared and ran into MTS Centre just in time to yell “True North” and sit at centre ice for the Jets (for some reason was able to get lower bowl seats then for a semi-reasonable price). Pavelec started and let 2 in on 2 shots, Mason came in and held the fort, and we scored 5 in the 2nd (Jim Slater with a pair) to win 5-2. The second time I pulled the double header. The first was my birthday back in 1991. Bombers had a player mutiny against Cal Murphy because he held the purse strings tight and was a bit of a tyrant, which chafed a few players who felt they deserved more incidentals from the club. Also took pot shots at Rod Hill, who they called “Murphy’s house boy” (the racial undertone went unnoticed at that time - today that phrase would set people off big time). After a lot of public feuding and an aborted practice IIRC, the club took out its frustrations on the Tiger Cats, setting an all time club record winning 68-14 (Hill even got an INT touchdown and was mobbed by his teammates in the end zone). Then hopped across the street (double headers were so much easier then) to watch the Jets beat the Leafs 4-2 on HNIC. Pretty sweet birthday.

I thought the 2nd Amendment was the most twisted bastardized part of the Constitution that has strayed the farthest from its original intent, but reading the transcript of Alex Jones’ words, I am starting to see the 1st Amendment make a case.

Ok, I actually feel bad about that joke.

You suck! 😁

A club’s decision to honour a player is usually separate to a league decision to ban them though. Mantle and Mays both had their numbers retired and were already in the baseball Hall of Fame before they got banned. Pete Rose was banned for life but the Reds still retired his number in 2016. And Roberts is in the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. There is no formal disciplinary issue that would keep him from being honoured, and he should be up there for sure. As for when, he could go in any time now. But if he slotted anywhere from first to last on the list with Joe Poplawski, James Murphy, Greg Battle, Ty Jones, and Rod Hill it would not surprise me.

Was already happy with the trade. Then I saw this tweet and would have been happy getting a box of tape for this guy.

I’m good with that.

Would be in this town for sure given the last 29 years.

You say in one sentence he was canned in Sask and then say in the next sentence he was promoted. Which was it? He left Toronto as receiver’s coach of his own accord to take a promotion as OC in Winnipeg. Got fired and went to Hamilton to be receiver’s coach. He left Hamilton to return to Toronto in a lateral move, and then another lateral move to Sask., no indication he was fired from either job from the sources I have. He got promoted in Sask. and left to take a head coaching gig in Winnipeg, step up not fired. Fired by the Bombers after signing an extension, and went into broadcasting to cash out a paycheque rather than take a new job and forfeit the contract I would speculate (remember some reports that he was offered other jobs but wanted to take some time). Hired by Winnipeg, stayed 4 years and took the promotion to Ottawa. Again, why make stuff up that is patently false (fired every 2 years by every team in the CFL)?

I think horns would get banned for their nuisance factor long before they’d get banned for the potential for COVID spit. If the latter was the true concern, they’d do much better to enforce social distancing in the Rum Hut area (which will never happen) than eliminate the horns. Wow, concerns about excessive crowd noise and coaches no longer on our staff. We must be winning on the fielding these are the pressing issues of the day!

The first syllable in the surname should be a hint.

Except that isn’t true. Only fired twice as far as I can tell. Maybe ask why he keeps getting promoted if he is being carried everywhere and has nothing to do with the success that magically follows him around more often than not?

I yeah, 23-13 in his first go-round with the Bombers. 44-28 in his second OC stint, playoffs every year, and a Grey Cup in 2019. A Grey Cup appearance in 2011 sandwiched in between. 34-19-1 in Sask. with two Cup appearances and a win. What a loser. But of course, it had nothing to do with him, all the success was on the players, and all the failure is on him, right?

You simply said he makes players adapt to his system, then you agree he made his system fit with the players like Stegall, Bruce and Roberts. So even if it is a no-brainer, he did not do what you claim he always does. And I personally was never impressed with Streveler as a passer from the get go. Apparently neither was Kyle Walters, since he brought in Collaros rather than ride it out with Chris in 2019. Bottom line, I can accept that at times his play calling got “too safe” and tried to change mid-game when it had been working. But I also remember people complaining when he didn’t change mid-game and the other defence adjusted. I am just blown away by how much people still jump all over him when he has been gone for 2 years. It’s not like we are failing with him now at the helm, and it’s not like we didn’t succeed when he was here. I’ve read pages of “who sucked more, LaPo or Nichols” and you would think we were talking about Stefan LaFors and Joe Zaleski levels of ineptitude. And both these guys were winners at the end of the day. After 29 years and some brutal teams, that matters a lot more to me than whether or not they ran up the score in the 4th quarter instead of playing ball control kill the clock and won by 10 instead of 25 or losing by turning the ball over. And I just wonder why if LaPo is so obviously bad, why some need to make up false stuff (LaPo’s QB never led the league in TD passes) to prove their point. But I have your point, and you have mine. We’ll agree to disagree, and I will satisfy myself with the 2019 Grey Cup banner he was a part of.