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We hosted Edmonton in the West semi in 2017.

Dominion really did a number on Fox with their lawsuit settlement. Dismantling continues.

Merchandise sales

Not my rules. Don’t kill the messenger.

Skipping a week counts as a strike.

Chad Kelly

“Take it from the old observer”.

Next question, inspired by Speed’s Burger King comment: What are the best and the worst commercials you have ever seen? And worst is subjective, because a bad commercial still can draw eyeballs to a product, even if in an annoying way. Doesn’t matter if they love it or hate it, if people are still talking about a commercial and the product it is hawking, it has become a success. So my answers: for the best, I offer two - the one I consider the most memorable and best at delivering on it’s message, and then my favourite as the “best”. The memorable one won an award at the Cannes commercial festival, it was Australian and was two minutes long. Shot in black and white, it had no dialogue. It takes place in a dark, noisy factory basement. A lone figure stands in front of a conveyor belt. A blast furnace burns in the background while noisy machinery permeates the area. The conveyor belt moves at about two miles an hour. After about 15 seconds a tin can goes by on the belt and passes the worker. Another 15 seconds of noise and another can enters the frame and slowly goes by the worker. Another 15 seconds and another can shows up and goes by. A fourth can goes by, this one on its side. The worker waits until it reaches him and then grabs it and stands it up on end, and returns it to the belt. Another 15 seconds, another can goes by, and another. A seventh can shows up, again in its side. As the worker goes to grab it, the screen goes black…..and after 10 seconds of black silence, three words pop up on the screen: “Stay in school” And my favourite “best” is this one: And the worst, a local ad back in the 1980’s. Believe it or not, the company’s sales doubled after this as came out, even though the commercial was universally hated (and rumoured to have been used by North Korea to torture prisoners, lol)

5 actually.

FYI they are lip synching too. Sorry.

I think the Rourke love came down to a couple of factors Ford did not have. One, being in B.C., a big market that was trying to re-build with a new owner trying innovative stuff like big pre-game concerts, so they wanted a star to build the image around. Just like Toronto with Kelly. Like it or not, the image of those markets is more important to advertisers and the league image-makers than a well-established safe market like a Winnipeg, Saskatchewan, or Edmonton, so the broadcasters will pump the tires more over a new phenom. Second, Rourke was not just succeeding as another starter, which is rare enough for a Canadian QB, he was dominating, putting up numbers not seen since Flutie or Calvillo, two of the all-time greatest. Almost 80% completion rate, on pace for 50 TD passes and over 6,600 yards. If Ford can dominate like that, say 150 yards rushing in multiple games, then I can see the same kind of fervor over him. But right now he is turning heads, the adulation will come soon enough if he keeps it up.

Bombers now can clinch home playoff game with a win tomorrow.

Booch Posted July 19 sadly I hope they beat us

Don’t see Jackson getting bounced any time soon at this point. He is part of the short yardage and heavy package run plays, and with Brady dominating like he is I don’t see O’Shea wanting to mess with that success. Also provides special teams and back-up defensive coverage, a good utility piece who can be plugged in at multiple spots.

Brady Oliveira.

You’ve just given me an idea for the “random question of the week”. Thanks!

I’m just going to focus on the rest of 2023 before worrying too much about 2025. I suspect Miller, Walters, and O’Shea are taking the same approach.

Roster management. 😊

Maybe try a Dr. Seuss rhyme. 😁

Fans are being totally consistent…….in complaining each week. 😁

Me too, so that Leaf fans wouldn’t have the pretend “we totally would have won” fantasy when they could still have lost the game, conveniently forget the egg they laid in game 7, and ignore the fact that they still would have likely lost to Patrick Roy in the Finals anyway, and couldn’t manufacture an excuse. 😉 Don’t forget that they had already given up the tying run before that play, so Buckner’s gaffe did not cost them the win automatically.

Had not thought of Glenn’s injury at first but now that it has been brought up, hard to argue that. Probably the fairest “wish that play was different” because it doesn’t actually change the result of the game that it occurred in, and doesn’t automatically guarantee a changed outcome in the next one, but gives us a fair fighting chance. Younger me would probably say Ben Johnson doesn’t test positive since it was such a blow to the country’s psyche, but I’d be a hypocrite hoping he got away with it when I have disdain for others who cheat, so I guess I could say I wish Carl Lewis’ positive result at the US Trials was not swept under the rug, and he would not have gotten away with his cheating. Other nominee would be Bob Cameron’s punt not being blocked in the Grey Cup in 2001.

I think O’Shea’s record of being successful at challenges is pretty good, if TSN’s tracking is to be believed, and my memory of same is accurate. However, I would also say it is skewed because he is ultra cautious about throwing the flag in the first place, IMO way too much so. So he does well winning a challenge because he only goes after the obvious ones, unlike say a Dave Dickinson who throws out a flag almost whenever he can. O’Shea certainly could be more assertive when it comes to challenges, the feel for in-game situations and exploiting them is an area he is not the strongest in as a head coach, which is odd because as a special teams coach in Toronto he had a knack for almost always knowing exactly when to throw in a fake play and take advantage of a game situation, which he did frequently.