Eternal optimist

Couldn't you just adjust it based on the number of games played? Take whatever the regular season amount was and divide it by three (assuming 6 of 18 games played in shortened season)... It'd be harder for QBs to overcome one bad game but, I mean that's really the best they could do.

This statement is an egregious insult to Brandon.

I'm surprised the even understand the concept of currency over there. Do they have running water yet?

Winnipeg tentatively announced as hub city for 2020 season https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/winnipeg-cfl-hub-city-1.5657988 Just like most players, Saskatchewan offered more ($3 million) than Manitoba ($2.5 million) to subsidize operations but Winnipeg was picked based on ... qualitative factors (such as not being Saskatchewan)

In other news... Regina still sucks, we could keep ripping on them?

Sorry, I wasn't accusing you of prescribing to that narrative, just pointing out that it does also fit that narrative. You make a good point though that the media has been hammering COVID quite a bit and impacts may be overblown... the biggest problem here though is the uncertainty surrounding it. Viruses mutate all the time.. the concern with COVID is its' highly contagious infection rate, the virus isn't very deadly right now, but if it mutates into something more sinister, with its high infection rates, it would be devastating. That's because the Spanish Flu did kill millions! More people died from the flu itself (particularly after it mutated) than were killed in World War I. Estimated death tolls from the Flu range from 50 million to 100 million1, by comparison WWI killed between 20 and 40 million. Correlations are often drawn to the Spanish Flu because given the era, it is a perfect example of what happens when no preventative measures are taken. It's also the most recent pandemic, so it's the one we have the most information about. Sources: 1: https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu

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Bo-gey-man: noun: An imaginary evil spirit or being, used to frighten children If you buy into the whole "COVID is a scam/conspiracy" logic, it unfortunately fits right in to that narrative.

Seriously? Just put all the anti-vaxxers on a shuttle to the sun like that episode of The Simpsons...

Shout-out to all the other savers that paid off their house and are fiscally responsible millennials!... In all seriousness though that would be catastrophic.

Wait... American players don't regularly use forward foreign exchange contracts to hedge and minimize their risk to match their risk appetite? Reckless... simply reckless....

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwji8a_MpdzqAhWxLn0KHXOjAl0QFjAAegQIAhAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fd3ham790trbkqy.cloudfront.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2019%2F05%2F2018-Annual-Report-FINAL.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2voazgzshYcL_LztpFSPmV For anyone else who is interested - above are the public audited financial statements (2018) for Edmonton's team, keep in mind they hosted the Grey Cup that year, so there's a boatload more revenue in 2018 because of that. EVEN THEN though - their financials indicate cash on-hand hovers above $8 million, and that's not even including their investments. They show positive operating cash flows, and not only that, they have a rainy day fund of $12M ("stabilization fund") that could be drawn upon for dire situations .... like a pandemic. Of course, 2019 was a decent year on the field for Edmonton, they made the Eastern Final despite a losing record... there were certainly other teams (Toronto, Ottawa) that did a lot worse. Assuming the $1M estimate to rebrand is correct, the question isn't if they have the cash to rebrand, it is if they want to.

He's got nothing on the legendary Paul Woldu... guy was also a 3x Grey Cup champ and is automatically better... apparently.

Man, this time of year we should be arguing about whether or not it is important for our quarterback to throw for 300 yards... Strange times.

Pfft jokes on you guys I'll be dead from morbid obesity well before COVID-19 ever gets to me. Checkmate, pandemic.

Can't find any reference to it, but I remember hearing Terry Gilliam (animator for Monty Python) had a similar situation arise, BBC at the time had a policy of reusing old tapes, so they'd frequently just rewrite over older content. When he heard of this, he purchased his own work from them (at cost), which later, when Monty Python really took off, BBC asked for back, since they had no backup copies of it...

Obviously the correct answer is to just rename them the Edmonton E's. Also, never clarify what the E stands for - adds to the mystery.

Just call them the Oilers they've already got the losing part down lol.

Defending Marxism with utilitarianism is quite an interesting stance... personally, I despise utilitarianism, people can use it to justify even the most heinous of acts for the greater good. Also, fun fact, Karl Marx is well-known to have lost quite a bit of money in the stock market as a speculator, probably one of the reasons he hated capitalism so much lol. God why did I have to take the philosophy course in university.

Kinda cool, right?

If you're wondering about lawsuits and stuff like that, the Manitoba Court Registry offers a free-to-use tool that allows you to search entities by their legal name across multiple divisions: https://web43.gov.mb.ca/Registry/NameSearch Doesn't give too much information unfortunately, but you can at least see if stuff was filed (such as a Statement of Claim) - for example, if you type in "Winnipeg Football Club" you can see they filed a Statement of Claim against Jeff Reinbold for $14,500 back in 1998. Of course, for the IGF debacle, the lawsuit may have been filed in the US, in which case it wouldn't show up there ... I don't know I'm not a lawyer.

Just to cheer everyone up, lets remember that time in 1912 Teddy Roosevelt was shot and did the following: - Survived - Convinced the mob of supporters not to harm the assassin. - Gave his speech anyways (which was 84 minutes btw) - Mocked the assassination attempt as part of his opening https://www.businessinsider.com/teddy-roosevelt-assassination-attempt-2017-6 Unfortunately, he was unsuccessful in his bid, but still, pretty cool story.

Personally, as much as I'd like to see the CFL again this year - I think they're underestimating the impact injuries have on this situation. Football is a violent sport, what happens when a player gets hurt? Normally you'd fly in another body, and the other guy would recover on IR or whatever... under COVID though... imagine you have a linemen go down you'd have to... 1) Fly in a new player, potentially exposing the entire league to COVID, not only that said player would have to self-quarantine 2) Retain a much higher level of reserve players in your initial 'bubble', likely ballooning salary costs for the league that's already suffering 3) Coax Nik Lewis out of retirement.

Wait people are getting paid to do this and I've been an introvert for free?!? I knew I was being scammed...