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I don’t recall this kind of wailing about the integrity of the game last year when we sat Collaros in BC for that “marquee” match-up between the top 2 teams in the CFL at the time. Or how the Montreal fans were getting ripped off shelling out their hard earned money only to watch the Sean McGuire spectacle in 2021. And if the league put in a “load management” force them to play edict and we lost Collaros to a season-ending injury in a nothing game for us (like we did in 2002 with Stegall), I can just imagine the calls for Ambrosie’s head for such a stupid rule being in place, forcing us to put a player at risk needlessly. This has been done in every league every year when a team clinches early. Not just a “short-sighted CFL league office” situation.

That’s a lot more than Joan Jett and Desmond Child apparently get in royalties for a song that’s a direct rip off of theirs.

Fortunately the idea of Russians as the villainous country is in favour again (unless you are MAGA). Or this guy, Henry Cavill

Whatever is asked of him in whatever position he is put in. And the team has won more when he was inserted into the line-up than the local favourites Parker and Haba. Which is really the most important thing for the coaching staff, whose job security is measured in wins and losses. Just sayin’. 😊

Let’s try another random question after the commercial one did not take off. What is the best gift you have ever given or received? Trying to go beyond the obvious of “my love” or “my partner/my kids” idea. This is a tangible random birthday/Xmas type present. Mine would have been a Christmas gift from my mom in 1997. She had gone through literally thousands of old pictures (some print, some old slides that she had transferred to print) and made a memory photo album for myself (and two more for each of my siblings). Must have spent months putting it all together for each of us, and covered a quarter century of our lives. Was about a two hundred page album and I spent the entire Xmas break just going through the memories the first time through. Meant so much then, and even more now that my parents are gone and many old friends have moved on to different places.

You haven’t been reading the Bomber threads much this season, have you?

“Donorcycles”

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. 😊