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I did the same - I got a lot of the references but not everything so I looked into it. I've never once listened to his music so might not be part of the target audience and it's not going to make me go out of my way to listen to him but I appreciated the opportunity to see/learn something new. They could have done much worse (and have) so I had zero problems with the half time show.

After the show I dug into some of those follow up pieces that explained what every part of the show meant and it was so neat to learn it all.

Game felt a lot like our 2019 GC win. Darnold scrambling like a young Zach. Defense was huge. Offense did just enough and the kicker made a ton of FGs.
Half Time show was spectacular. It was like a mini musical or an opera. BBs music is not for me, but I really appreciated what they were going for... And Gaga and Ricky Martin were fab as always.

Battling colon cancer and had gone into hospital earlier in the day due to "illness" and head the heart attack while she was in there... F*** Cancer so much.

I've also enabled embedding from youtube, x, facebook, instagram, etc. If there are others that don't seem to be working or you would like added, let me know.

Thanks for all your work keeping this board running!

I've upgraded the board to the next major version.
This is a significant upgrade from Version 4 to Version 5. I've been putting this off for almost a year as I didn't want to do it mid-season. Now with activities for next season starting, I wanted to get the upgrade in before next season activities start so any bugs can get worked out.
Why the upgrade....
This gets us on the most current version, which is important for security updates and new functionality. They have been doing security patches for the old version, but that won't last forever, and this also lets me upgrade some of the software that the board runs on to a current version.
Like everything else, the people who make the board software are really trying to push everyone to their cloud, as that gives them higher recurring revenue. But their hosting costs do not make sense for the size of the forum (it would 2x to 4x the cost I pay now depending on what plan we went to). Good news for now is they've committed to version 5 of the software to be self hosted. That should hopefully buy 5 - 10 years before they go to version 6.
Please be patient
There is going to be some tweaks and changes you'll notice over time, feel free to post in here anything that seems off or not right, there are still some tweaks that need to make to settings and the theme.
Some changes you may notice
They completely changed how tagging works.  Now admins / mods can maintain a list of tags, members can't create new ones.  This was done to better categorize and search content.  All existing tags have been converted, but let me know if you want new tags created.
Support for Web Apps on your phone
Complete theme overhaul.  A new theming system means I've had to rebuild the theme.  It is close to what we used to have, but there will be some discrepancies. There are still some more tweaks and updates I want to make to it.
There is a completely revamped post editor.  It does seem to be easier to use and more powerful.
A lot of other behind the scenes updates and changes to things we don't use that often.

https://www.bluebombers.com/2026/01/19/winnipeg-football-club-announces-installation-of-new-high-resolution-video-boards-at-princess-auto-stadium/
 
 

Well with the goal post fuckery necessitating more short placement punts he might be very useful

If they had hired Derrick P. Jenkins from Paloma Tech University would you be as critical?
or does the name “Jake Thomas” just make you feel things 

And it's been said over and over again that Jake is one of the smartest guys in the room, especially the Xs and Os... Just because he can't do the thing at the same level anymore doesn't mean he can't teach things. I have high hopes for him... Starting at a lower level assistant coach position is perfect. 

Hogan threw his players under the bus a couple of times. A coach needs to fall on his sword for his guys. Not blame them for losing. 

Winnipeg Blue Bombers extend standout DB Deatrick Nichols - 3DownNation
 

Thank you Hal Anderson
 

2 year extension for Cam Lawson.

Pretty sure they talked about Chris Schultz quite extensively because he passed away between seasons.  They also still talk about him sometimes when they are talking about Purolator Tackle Hunger.

Walter’s who brought us two extremely strong draft classes back to back, a couple great canadian talent trades, and a bumper crop of rookies like vaval, allen, woodbey, and the rookie ends who dominated in their one game. The same who already has us with the next group of high end imp ol in rando, who would’ve been an acclaimed all star on any other play off team maybe gotten nfl looks, and vanterpool who barely played but was our best ol when he did. 
The huge majority of the problem lays at the feet of mos. Walters hasn’t been perfect by any means, but we’ve seen him have the best free agent periods in the league while here when he has money to spend. He’s handed out some over pays for sure. And we’ve lost guys. But the team from top to bottom was in a maintain stage. If we are really in a re tool phase and it sure looks like we are, I wouldn’t pick any other gm in the league to do the job over him. 

Pretty sure they talked about Chris Schultz quite extensively because he passed away between seasons.  They also still talk about him sometimes when they are talking about Purolator Tackle Hunger.

Pretty sure they talked about Chris Schultz quite extensively because he passed away between seasons.  They also still talk about him sometimes when they are talking about Purolator Tackle Hunger.

So the positive news is that we no longer have to suffer through Barker on TSN.