Fatty Liver

This article appeared in the Ottawa Citizen today, good timing. http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/why-nfl-player-christo-bilukidi-left-the-big-show-to-come-home-to-ottawa The following quotes are pretty definitive. It wasn’t tough for Ottawa’s Christo Bilukidi to walk away from a $760,000 NFL contract. Not at all. When the 6-5, 300-plus-pound defensive lineman left in the middle of the New York Jets training camp last August — after earning about $2 million in four seasons in the National Football League — Bilukidi just wanted to come back home, where he knew he could find happiness both in his heart and in his head. “I fell out of love with the game,” the 27-year-old said. “Going to practice wasn’t fun. Going to meetings wasn’t fun. I was going through the motions instead of having the drive to play. “I remember talking to Richard Seymour my first year in Oakland — I was his backup. We were having breakfast and he told me, ‘Whether you play two years or 10 years in this league, there will be a point where it isn’t fun and that’s when you have to walk away. You can’t be 99.99 per cent in, you have to be 100 per cent in.’ “When I was with the Jets in training camp, I was in a meeting thinking, ‘I don’t want to be here.’ I told my agent. He said to take a couple of days before making a decision. So then I pulled the trigger, I told my agent to let the Jets know I was leaving. I got a call from the defensive-line coach. He told me I had an opportunity. I told him I appreciated that, but football just wasn’t for me anymore.”

Frick, all the more reason to ban fighting from hockey, the majority of the players that come down with CTE have been enforcers. Rick Martin being the exception but he played without a helmet for most of his career.

Ian Hamilton @IanHamilton45 Former Roughriders defensive tackle Corvey Irvin, who signed with Winnipeg as a free agent this off-season, has announced his retirement.

Got to keep Clarence focused.

Paying a receiver $250,000+ is not really feasible, can't see many of those contracts being offered in the future. Bowman, Green, who else is being paid that much to catch balls?

Looks like Cox doesn't understand the rules on or off the field, he took a boatload of penalties last year.

Brad Wall?

No kidding, the old site was bad but this version is visually atrocious.

Curt left on bad terms?

I believe Curt Keilback is still kicking around Wpg., he'd be a decent replacement for Bob.

Yes, it is scheduled to occur the same day Vince Young hoists the G.C.

I predict there's going to be a horde of butt-ugly babies born in 9 months time....

I don't know if this has been mentioned earlier in this thread already but was watching the series "Mad Dogs" last night and the actor Steve Zahn is almost a doppelganger of Mike O'Shea. He even has the same smirk.

That could be true.

That would be a poor way to determine who needed to be removed. If the plane was over-booked they should have gone back to a time-line to determine which passengers were the last to book. I assumed that Mr. Dao was on stand-by and was allowed on the plane before the booked seat holder had arrived. Details of the scenario seem to be lacking, which makes his removal look like a random act.

So how is the airline liable for the action of these individuals? Sure, they called for security but did not dictate the methods used to remove the passenger from the plane. What is missing from this footage is the time the airline spent negotiating with Mr. Dao to leave the airplane in a reasonable manner. How did they select Dao as the passenger that needed to be removed?

Isn't it more likely that the security officers were employees of the airport rather than the airline? I've never heard of an airline having their own security personnel other than the undercover flight monitors.

The CFL can not afford to let that happen, there's no going back. If the league is to prosper it has to get beyond relying on gate receipts. Most sports streaming websites are sponsored almost exclusively by online betting, especially the British and Asian ones. It's a shady world but I wonder if the CFL can benefit from this source of sponsorship revenue on a global level. Gamblers aren't necessarily interested in the event, just the results.

I can understand the problem, now that all games are televised the radio broadcast almost becomes irrelevant. That said, I guess I will be tuning into CJOB for the two preseason games.

I think Michel-Pierre Pontbriand also became a fire-fighter in old Quebec.

It's no wonder CJOB's ratings are declining, once the season is over Bob virtually goes into hibernation and doesn't re-emerge until T.C. The major broadcaster needs to do more during the off-season to keep the Bombers and the CFL in the news. It's not like there's nothing going on in the off-season, did Bob even attend CFL Week? The broadcaster in Regina does a much better job keeping the Riders front and center, a day doesn't go by that they don't discuss something CFL or Rider related. I love Bob but CJOB really deserves to lose the broadcast rights.

Liars and hypocrites all and yet the majority of the public continues to believe these fairy tales and allows unfettered access to tax dollars to be directed towards infinite military spending. I wonder what the cost of that 21,000 lbs. bomb was? I'm thinking the cost benefit is hugely out of whack to turn mud back into dust...

Cannibalism run amuck, nobody left except the toothiest.

Years ago during the last boom people in AB. would build a house live in it for a year or two and build another one and never pay capital gains. I know a few that did this multiple times when the price was climbing, I don't imagine there is a market for that activity any longer.

I already don't like nobody.