The Classic

Best fans in the CFL!
one and one half bad seasons and they're out.

All Riders and Rider Fans and anyone from Sask have smelly faces. Take that Saskatchewan!

Apathy in Regina must be at a all time high. Was there is this weekend and you could barely tell they were playing Friday. I think I saw one or two people wearing jerseys the whole day.

Love this tweet by the Bombers:
 
 

I'll be there with my group of 45

And BK recently installed Regina's second pay telephone.
Also, I hear that they now have instant messaging installed in many shops:

 

Burger King is open late.

After a run of 16 straight Labour Day Classics I've missed the last three. With this being the last one at Toilet Field I'm thinking of making the trip. So, two questions:
Who is going? Who wants to go?
My old crew have all stopped going so I'm looking to find another orphan, or maybe jump on a bus tour. Any takers?

Anyone else becoming disllusioned with the state of the CFL on the field with all the penalties, challenge flags & lame PI rules? ALL of this is killing the CFL in the stands & in the ratings.

Alberta posts have been moved to here:
 

please explain why willy would do any better anywhere else.
If as some people think, his problem is making fast enough reads...  how does changing teams fix that?
I'm just a casual fan, but it looks to me as though Nichols makes decisions about what to do with the ball faster than Drew.

Lol, i swear some people would like to see Willy throw for 400 yards in a loss than Nichols throw for 200 in a win.

I certainly would  not want to cut WIlly.  Nichols has been efficient and we are winning.  But if he plays the same way and we lose?  Willy will become the most popular man in town.

false advertising! lol
To be fair, ham was a power house of a team with much hype going into the season. They are .500 thanks to us. Its not like we are going into all these games with them being sask esq. The league has a ton of parity this year. as shown by the standings and records. 
ott (with out hank at qb) bc and calgary are the class of the league. Calgary will have a real hard time keeping up that hot start. Some might argue ott is in the middle tier, but imop they are at the bottom of that top 3, and my favorites to win the east. 
Sask is toast extra burnt. mtl has a ton of talent but is a couple losses away from being cellar dwellers too. Thats the fairly clear bottom.
ham, to, edm, and the blue are in the middle. We are all fairly even. We have a leg up on to and ham. edm has a leg up on us. One of our tier is probably gonna be the 3rd team to miss the play offs. And it could be a dog fight to the end of the season. We are in a position roughly to fight for a home play off game in the semi. And thats about right for our record and the strength of the teams we've played. 
This team reminds me a lot of the 2000-2001 team. I dont expect the win streak to go that long, but I dont expect us to win 7 games either. Win streak, re emergence of the franchise, finding a bunch of new guys that are big time players, and a roster finally gelling into a team. 

Need I say that the teams we beat are .500 or less because we beat them? Or that we don't show a victory against Saskatchewan like other teams do? Or that other teams have played the same teams we beat...and lost? Or how come it doesn't matter that the other beat us when we played with one arm tied behind our back? 
I'm happy where the team is, because this team put themselves where they are. Each team we played had the same chance to beat us as we did them. After all, weren't they playing a team with their back up QB in the game?
Smoke and mirrors? Nah, I don't smoke and I walk quickly past mirrors...

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I was skyping with my son in Victoria last night. We were both watching the game & we just laughed when Bond looked like he took a punch from Mike Tyson stumbling back with his head tilted & arms flailing. Then the ref threw the flag. 

You're losing it Ripper.
Not as much as the Riders. But you're losing it.

I'd be so mad if that happened to us but I was laughing my ass off at Bond last night. Give that man an award.

Ripper told me today on Riderfans.com that he'd rather have Holley and Collins than any one of Denmark, Smith or Dressler.
 

I want to see Chris Jones tell MOS to win with some class next Sunday and the following Saturday.

Next week looming as another huge trap game, like the 2011 LDC.

Cfl.ca power rankings still have us at 4th.Riders are in 16th place in a 9 team league.

the power rankings have been kinda awful this year. I try not to notice. 
Some one needs to start making tinfoil covered watermelon hats, could make a fortune come Banjo bowl.