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Including tonight!

The only synopsis needed is: "John Wick With Saul Goodman"

Have you read any of John Hodge's tweets or stories lately on 3DN? Even worse take than this one. I think someone hit the guy over the head with a hammer. One story he wrote talked about how the CFL can spend it's way out of its problems while admitting it's not his money so the owners may not want to do it. The other was about how single game betting could cover the losses the league suffers so it doesn't have to change it's business model. It can just carry on like nothing happened. Just complete crap. As bad or worse than that 3DN writer there for the Riders who wrote about what positions players from the Riders could play if they were in the NHL.

https://www.americanfootballinternational.com/japans-les-maruo-im-trying-to-compete-against-the-best-of-the-best/

I hate Jake Paul

I'll never stop caring. I'll take every little shred of news. This league means everything to me.... I'll take whatever I can get.

Oh yeah, there was another John Hodge story last week on twitter & at 3DN which I called him out for as it was totally ridiculous. Hodge said Vancouver, Toronto & Montreal were holding back the CFL so screw them. He claimed that they can be replaced by other cities. I said he was delusional. How do you replace three markets with nearly 13 million people? I asked him what "cities" would replace them?? Saskatoon, Kelowna, London or Quebec City? Kamloops or Kelowna? Red Deer??? Charlottetown?? Victoria?? St. John's??? Who would pay for new stadiums? No government would. Taxpayers would be up in arms footing half to three quarters of $250-$300 million dollar stadiums in these places so no stadium would ever be built. I reminded him the reason the Schooners in Halifax never went forward was because the city & province there refused to finance a CFL sized stadium so the team was shelved. I said without Vancouver, Toronto & Montreal there'd be no TV deal worth any money. It was a totally stupid article. He never responded. I get he's against a CFL merger with the XFL but at least write something that makes sense & gives good reason why the CFL can play with no fans in the stands & is viable long term.

They have had a year to figure it out. To say they are being held to a higher standard than leagues who have played actual games...is ludicrous at this point.

Plus a black president getting tough on whitesupremecy would have been throwing gas on the fire.

Yeah I watched it. Liked it a lot. Synopsis without giving too much away...

Obama was more show than substance, but he was hamstrung at every turn by his own party and a hostile GOP-controlled Senate.

Pro-Trump website 'TheDonald' confirms detailed plans to storm Capitol and kill members of Congress If there were any lingering doubts as to the violent intentions and motives of those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, those doubts may now be put to rest. From minute details, such as the most effective type of zip ties to restrain elected officials to the most effective methods of killing police officers, the rioters left a chilling and irrefutable electronic trail on a website dedicated to overturning the 2020 election on Donald Trump's behalf. Prior to Jan. 6, that website, "TheDonald.win," had generated over 1 million visits per day. A research group called Advance Democracy, formed by former FBI analyst and Senate investigator Daniel Jones, collected thousands of messages posted by pseudonymous users of the now-defunct website in the days leading up to the insurrection. The posts were distilled into a report and provided to The Washington Post. Jones' group had previously focused on the online effort to mobilize the riot, and it soon became evident that this particular website served as one of the rioters' primary organizational hubs. As reported by the Post's Craig Timberg: "The website, TheDonald, played a far more central role in the January 6th Capitol insurrection than was previously known," he said. "There are thousands of posts — with tens of thousands of comments — detailing plans to travel to Washington and engage in violence against the U.S. Capitol. The ultimate end goal of this violence was, on behalf of Trump, disrupt the Congress and overturn the presidential election." Because the posters on this site used pseudonyms, Advance Democracy could not identify them; the logical assumption is that the website and its contents are now being analyzed by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to track the former users through more forensic means. As the Post explains, the website itself grew out of a Reddit forum that served for some time as a "safe space" for racists and conspiracy theorists. Eventually, chafing at Reddit's moderation rules, the forum became a standalone site, with its web address owned by an Army Veteran named Jody Williams. Williams disbanded the site after the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol. The Post article cites a treasure trove of intensely violent comments and discussions on the site in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 assault. Many of those comments clearly go well beyond the aspirational fever dreams of "keyboard commandos," and involve meticulous and well-coordinated plans, including "shared diagrams of the tunnel systems beneath the Capitol complex," discussion of travel and funding resources, and most notably, proposed methods to inflict violence, some of which were then employed by the rioters. Pro-Trump website 'TheDonald' confirms detailed plans to storm Capitol and kill members of Congress - Alternet.org

I agree we get a hard start date. I think we end up with July TC and games starting in August with fewer games.

So any thoughts on what the league will announce this week? Announcement coming Tuesday, by all accounts. Part of it will be the official postponement of the start of the season, but I'm gonna say that they'll announce a hard start date of Canada Day. Now, will that be TC begins then or first game of the season.... But that's my guess. They'll give us something "written in stone", so to speak, so we have something to look forward to....

It's not necessarily hate but but a bit of cynicism about intentions. Taylor Hall Exhibit A. In an interview explaining his move to the Bruins he admits that he personally has had a bad season with the Sabres, needs to contribute and be on a team that wins games. I could see his point if he lit it up with the Sabres but he didn't. He was paid 8 million dollars to be one of the best players on the team but he wasn't so better jump ship to an elite team and profess on how the Bruins all along was his preferred landing spot even before he signed a one year contract with the Sabres. Roll eyes.

In case anyone wanted to see the ****** carlson take down on last week tonight:

no one in the league can wear it

EDM 4-3 WPG EDM 4-6 WPG WPG 6-5 EDM WPG 2-3 EDM WPG 1-2 EDM WPG 2-4 EDM So 4 games to 2 for EDM.

If your parents are into Italian food, when things go back to normal take them to DeLuca's for lunch down Portage Ave. The absolute best homemade pasta at a really good price!

HAVING A BIG NOSE IS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT WEARING A MASK. FOR EXAMPLE, I STILL WEAR UNDERWEAR.

Sorry- the caption did not come through. New Zealand is proposing legislation that would band sale of tobacco and tobacco products to anyone born after 2004.

Credit to the Feds for the deal with Pfizer.

I swear to God if MLSE and Montreal cost me the CFL......

It is amazing how little the leadership of this league seems to understand their customer. Lose the diehard CFL fans and gain zero NFL fans. Great plan.