Bombers recruiting Derel Walker

[Sard]

50 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:

I'd be willing to bet that at the very least, TC will be delayed at this point. With a real possibility that the season is shortened. 

No shortened season, Grey Cup the day after boxing day 😁

[Geebrr]

If they cancel the season they should just name us B2B Champs.

 

[Noeller]

curious about NHL playing in the summer and how that would affect CFL....

[Geebrr]

15 minutes ago, Noeller said:

curious about NHL playing in the summer and how that would affect CFL....

I'm not watching hockey in July 

[blue_gold_84]

1 hour ago, Geebrr said:

I'm not watching hockey in July 

Even late May and June get pretty lame once it starts getting nice out. The obvious exception being the Jets in it... I don't think I watched a single playoff game after May Long Weekend last year.

[Floyd]

I can't see how NHL would affect CFL games even if playoffs are in the summer...  you might have one or two games that conflict in markets

[Rich]

Could affect attendance in terms of not being as high up in the news cycle.

[Bomber_fanaddict]

8 hours ago, Geebrr said:

If they cancel the season they should just name us B2B Champs.

 

Or we would be the longest regining Grey Cup Champs in History...... 12+ straight months lol

[SpeedFlex27]

7 hours ago, Geebrr said:

I'm not watching hockey in July 

Nobody wants NHL in July & August. Except diehards. If they did play from end of June until almost September expect a shortened 48 game season to start in January. 

[Fred C Dobbs]

26 minutes ago, Bomber_fanaddict said:

Or we would be the longest regining Grey Cup Champs in History...... 12+ straight months lol

That would be the Hamilton Tigers, who won the cup in 1915 and, because of the First World War and rule disputes in 1919, retained possession until the next Grey Cup game in 1920. Can't see this corona-virus being that bad.

[Dirty30]

The Argos would be screwed if the NHL and NBA seasons were extended. 

[Bomber_fanaddict]

52 minutes ago, Fred C Dobbs said:

That would be the Hamilton Tigers, who won the cup in 1915 and, because of the First World War and rule disputes in 1919, retained possession until the next Grey Cup game in 1920. Can't see this corona-virus being that bad.

Way to ruin my parade 🤣

Fine.... longest in current history 

Edited March 14, 2020 by Bomber_fanaddict

[Stickem]

Whatever happened to this guy.....seems like he fell off the earth...I see that the Esks. have signed Armanti Edwards today....not a bad little receiver...Thought they might be in the Walker game.....I doubt they'd be now with the inking of Edwards

Edited April 10, 2020 by Stickem

[SpeedFlex27]

Walker can sit in anonymity for all I care. We have more important things to worry about.  Maybe he wants to play in the XFL. Oh wait...

[Colin Unger]

1 hour ago, Stickem said:

Whatever happened to this guy.....seems like he fell off the earth...I see that the Esks. have signed Armanti Edwards today....not a bad little receiver...Thought they might be in the Walker game.....I doubt they'd be now with the inking of Edwards

With the uncertainty of whether there will be a season and no XFL as a fallback Im surprised Derel doesn't jump on whoever is willing to give him the biggest signing bonus right now.

[Nolby]

Walker will sign any year now,I can feel it!

[wbbfan]

On 2020-03-13 at 6:50 PM, Dirty30 said:

The Argos would be screwed if the NHL and NBA seasons were extended. 

The 8 Argos fans would be alone in the stands if every other pro league in the country didn't play. 

[SpeedFlex27]

Regular season starts Labour Day. Play a 12 week schedule.  All regular season games played in Canada. Then switch the playoff games to Arizona & California with the Grey Cup played in the SW or California before Christmas Day. If empty stadiums are to be used, this makes perfect sense as college stadiums will be empty except for the Bowl games.  That would allow us to extend the season so late. Just a thought. 

Edited April 15, 2020 by SpeedFlex27

[Eternal optimist]

On 2020-04-10 at 5:50 PM, Colin Unger said:

With the uncertainty of whether there will be a season and no XFL as a fallback Im surprised Derel doesn't jump on whoever is willing to give him the biggest signing bonus right now.

Unless he personally really needs the money, he'd be selling himself short by doing this...

[WBBFanWest]

10 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Regular season starts Labour Day. Play a 12 week schedule.  All regular season games played in Canada. Then switch the playoff games to Arizona & California with the Grey Cup played in the SW or California before Christmas Day. If empty stadiums are to be used, this makes perfect sense as college stadiums will be empty except for the Bowl games.  That would allow us to extend the season so late. Just a thought. 

That's just dumb.  Play for the Grey Cup in the US?   No thanks.  And even if this was a good idea (which it isn't), how many US stadium fields can be adapted to allow for Canadian demensions?  I'm thinking that there cant be that many.

[Noeller]

More and more, I'm leaning toward scrapping the 2020 season. The border isn't going to be open in time for the US players to get up here, and they aren't going to allow fans for at least a year, if not more....and the CFL isn't a league that can get by without fans in attendance. At this point, I think we'd be lucky to only lose 1 season...

[Jpan85]

They also can't afford to not receive the 40+ million from TSN

[Mr Dee]

4 minutes ago, Noeller said:

More and more, I'm leaning toward scrapping the 2020 season. The border isn't going to be open in time for the US players to get up here, and they aren't going to allow fans for at least a year, if not more....and the CFL isn't a league that can get by without fans in attendance. At this point, I think we'd be lucky to only lose 1 season...

I’m almost at that point. Sad really, but it seems inevitable. 
It almost seems surreal.

At the very least, we go through this after achieving our goal, and that was winning the league prize. They cannot take that away, nor attach an asterisk to it.
It’s a clean, deserved win...and it’s ours.

[Firekid]

I got a call from the Bombers couple days ago and the lady told me they are planning on starting the season on July 1st as of right now. She did also indicate that anything could happen before that lol! I guess they know as much as anyone else. 

[NorthernSkunk]

It wouldn't feel right watching any cfl teams playing for the cup in the states.