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    WinnipegBeach_BlueBombers got a reaction from basslicker in Nic Grigsby gets Marshall Faulk praise after big game   
    Marshall Faulk was on Fox Sports Radio this morning before the Jay Mohr Sports show and was talking about Nic Grigsby of the Blue Bombers. Wow couldn't believe it. Apparently he and Grigsby are close and worked on his game before Blue Bombers training camp. Said Grigsby isn't even close to the player he will be. Apparently he runs a consistently 4.3/40
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    WinnipegBeach_BlueBombers got a reaction from bryan35 in 29,000 seats sold for tonight   
    the reason why the stadium location hurts walk up has been discussed on TSN1290 and CJOb bomber pre game shows. Last week I believe it was the post game show. And it's just common sense. You are never going to get a bunch of youths playing football in the backyard or swimming with the family/friends going ''i want to go to the bomber game'' response ''well how can we get there?'' 
     
    I know where I grew up in Birds Hill my parents and friends parents would never let us go downtown but if we wanted to go to a Jets game or Blue Bomber game they always knew that polo park was our meeting place before/after. It was safer. I can only imagine my parents saying ''sure you can go to IGF field and just go to one of those park and rider spots.... its too much work for everyone involved so we would stay home and watch the game on television which is another issue. Back then games were mostly blacked out unless you had those large illegal satellite dishes that would get TSN out of ontario or CBC Brandon (if you remember what it was like in the '80's and '90s.....
     
    Another thing is you will not get approx 1,000 maybe even more fans who just happen to be around polo park saying ''lets go to a football game''..... you will never get that at IGF. Those days are done.... 
     
     
    In regards to Asper. Yes it's his fault because he anchored the location to try to get this foot in the door. He had no money of his own and he wanted the levels of gov't to support him and give the team for free as assurance that he can support the team with his real estate dream.... If he would have come clean the BB would have dealt with the CanadInn guy and most likely would have built the stadium at the Red River Ex or somewhere along the perimeter near the new CentrePort highway which would have instilled economic growth instead of burning money into land that leads to nothing but a concrete stadium in IGF.
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