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kind of goes with the whole "Canadian Mafia" vibe doesn't it?

You guys know that MBT has been available and actively shopping himself on both sides of the border since July, right?
Nobody picked him up.  Not Ottawa, not Hamilton, both down to raw rookies who were playing NCAA in 2022.  Not Sask, not Calgary.
I'm not sure much will change in the off-season.  Nobody wants to sign him to much more than the kind of deal Dane Evans got in BC, 100k ish base and bonuses for starting, winning.

He outran Casey Sayles once on 2nd and 15.   That was the difference.  That is all.

I've never been one to defend Disney, but their problems aren't due to them being "woke".

I'm really surprised at how nonsensical the PA All Star choices are. Christ sakes it's like they all based their votes off what the media were droning on about...
 

The lack of Kolankowski love is an outrage - John Hodge (probably).

I've revised my prediction post Awards night snubs:
Bombers win 58-3 (2 missed converts & 2 safeties.  There will be no field goals)
Half time score:  Bombers 37 to -2
Book it.

Read this earlier and loved it. Really think he's going to have a great game Sunday. Greek Mobster is gonna stick....

“He’s a mobster, bro. He’s a Greek Mobster,” said Drew Wolitarsky. “I think Zach might be the most competitive guy on the team. You may not always think that because of how cordial and relaxed he is off the field, but that boy loves to win. And he does it for the people around him. That’s why I call him the Mobster because he’ll do anything for family.
Tait's latest:
https://www.bluebombers.com/2023/11/17/48-hour-primer-grey-cup/

I've never been one to defend Disney, but their problems aren't due to them being "woke".

So the quick answer is yes it has happened before, but with a caveat. In the earliest years of the MOP award (starting in 1953) the eastern and western teams did not play an interlocking schedule, so the only chance for them to meet was in the Grey Cup. So in 1953 the MOP was Edmonton’s Billy Vessels, but the Tiger-Cats beat Winnipeg in the Grey Cup, so he did not face Hamilton. It happened 3 more times in the 1950’s when the Esks Jackie Parker (in ‘57 and ‘58) and Johnny Bright (in ‘59) won MOP but Hamilton and Winnipeg played in the Cup each year. By the time Montreal’s George Dixon won MOP without playing in the Grey Cup, CFL teams were playing a full interlocking schedule, so he faced the Bombers in the regular season. 
I haven’t done a deep dive through the rest of the 1960’s and 1970’s, but as far as I can tell, the MOP for each season from 1980 to 2022 either played for or against the eventual Grey Cup champions for that season.
There were two close calls though. In 2002 Milt Stegall did play against Edmonton in one game, and started the second before being injured early, and then did not play in the playoff game as the Esks went on to win the Cup. In 2004 BC’s Casey Printers won MOP and did play eventual champion Toronto at home in August as he was replacing an injured Dave Dickenson. He’d play a bit of the re-match in Toronto before being pulled midway through a loss. And then he famously was sat for the Cup in favour of Dickenson three days after winning the MOP, and the Argos won. 
Now since the whole implication of this question is that Kelly sat out against the Bombers in their lone meeting and the Bombers are destined to win, if you have now angered the football Gods with your presumptive confidence and jinxed us come this Sunday if the Als pull off an upset, and made me do all this work to boot, then

2 more sleeps!   Cannot wait!

PEOPLE ARE GETTING UPSET ABOUT FICTIONAL CHARACTERS!!! 
 
Imagine being so racist that you get upset about fictional characters. 

Let's be honest... Hercules should never have been white in the first place, just like Jesus isn't white.  Why is it a bad thing to allow representation in different forms.  The people getting upset about characters being more diverse are the white people who feel that they are "losing power" and "being replaced".
 
The complaint about anything being "woke" as a bad thing is absolutely ridiculous.

Woke means educated, so you can see why some see it as an insult. 

Being "Woke" (woken up to how many people are hurting others) is a very very good thing. 

Disney has lost billions going woke, it isn't just Me 

It's a combination of them just putting out way too much content that it causes fatigue and second of all the "woke" agenda of Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy.    
They are completely taking a dump on many of the cartoons/movies/characters that the parents (like myself) grew up and idolized and trying to replace them with either a female character or diverse character and thinking that people would be cool with it.   
Luke Skywalker/Indiana Jones .... both guys that we idolized as kids that in the recent times they transformed them into completely weak old feeble whiny men who were nothing at all like the cool bad asses that they were in the 80's.  Both of them having young 20 year old girls come save the day and one up them and somehow the girls are instantly stronger and smarter then either guy ever were.    The results of Disney doing this is massive backlash and Indiana Jones as a series is officially cancelled forever after losing massive money. 
The latest I read was that for the new Blade movie they wanted to have three female lead characters and Blade being the 4th character from the top and debating if they want to keep it an R rating.     It appears they do not remember classic Blade where the audience was 99% male and Blade was a bad ass chopping heads off to techno music and it was just pure violence and watching the cool guy wipe everyone out.   
Disney is catering to the 15 year old girl audience and ignoring the vast majority of everyone else when it comes to comic book movies and action movies?  The box office numbers don't lie and they are taking insane losses each time out.  
The cartoons is another issue in which they are catering to a very small niche of people and I'm not sure what the word would be but somewhat insulting the vast majority by pushing agendas within cartoons.  It's unnecessary because Disney over the last 30 years were already creating cartoons that catered to a wide audience of different cultures and people.  When my daughter was younger we constantly played Moana with Coco a close 2nd and both were fantastic movies that wasn't whitewashed.
I don't believe the kids themselves are mad that Disney is pushing the diversity in the cartoons, but I am fairly certain that parents are tired of Disney pushing it on a continous basis.   Parents don't want that crap in kids movies,  the movies should be about the art and innocence and not about trying to push an agenda to check off boxes on some kind of checklist.   It really hollows the experience.    I think the tipping point was the stupidity of checking a diversity box for a character who is called Snow White because her skin was white as snow. It would be like hiring the whitest man in the world to replace T'Challa in Black Panther.  How stupid would that be.   
Disney just needs a complete overhaul of everyone in charge and just go back to the formula that has always worked.   The brand has been tarnished so bad that I don't even know if they could ever recover. 
I heavily recommend people watch the latest South Park that discusses Disney.  They went really easy on them but the  main point still gets through in it.  

Woke is a real word.    Them pushing an agenda within their movies is 100% a thing.  
I assume because you responded in an emotional reaction because I provided examples that are facts and not opinions and because you know what I wrote is correct,  you resort to name calling. 
 
The fact that you think Disney "cares about other people"  HAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD laugh at that.   Why not educate yourself and see how Disney treats their employees which many are immigrants at the theme parks?    

"lost billions" 
Stock is double what it was ten years ago and have their highest earnings ever. 
 
Just like when Nike went broke. And, Budweiser. And, Keurig. And whatever else underperforming white men "boycott" 

I can't imagine being this much of an *******. Christ Almighty. I'm so thankful that under represented groups get to have their own superheroes or princesses to look up to and have as their own. 

I have.

I have.

I have.