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On 2024-02-03 at 6:35 PM, Tracker said:
Clements was a great QB with decent arm and average running ability, but more that made up for that with smarts and probably a lot of film room time.
The guy was a lawyer in Chicago for a few years before jumping into coaching at the NFL level. Very, very sharp guy. The guy knows football. He would have made an excellent CFL HC. It's too bad he never came back. Had he come back, I think he would have had a similar career to John Hufnagel with the Stamps.
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Yeah, it was a shot at the CFL. So, Kelly should do us all a favour, quit the Argos & get a job outside if football & see how much he makes.
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2 hours ago, greenrider55 said:
Chad Kelly is an epic moron, wow.
Is he posting again in social media?
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1 hour ago, GCJenks said:
Collectible stores seem to be common targets. Cancentral has had several incidents since their move to Milt Stegall drive.
So unfortunate. Between the probable hike in insurance premiums & increased cost of security it may force Joe Daley's Sports & Framing Store to permanently close shop. Nothing but scumbags.
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4 hours ago, Dr Zaius said:
I don't even get what sort of point he is trying to make with this tweet?
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19 hours ago, JCon said:
That's unexpected. They were probably the best team in Canada last year.
The others obviously didn't respect Bottcher. They seemed to disagree with every shot he called when I watched them play. Even their coach knifed the guy in the back & left with the other 3. Nasty.
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On 2024-04-15 at 2:36 PM, rebusrankin said:
Beverette looks like the only one who knows what they are talking about.
Lewis has been smoking waaaaay too much weed.
11 hours ago, kelownabomberfan said:what a freaking bonehead....
Making friends wherever he goes....
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On 2024-03-29 at 7:49 PM, kelownabomberfan said:
I was articling at a CA firm in Calgary at the time and remember saying the exact same thing the next day to my equally clued-out co-workers. So there you go. The owners at that time were blinded by the money, and allowed a totally unfair advantage to the US teams. It was a total betrayal, in my view.
It wasn't the owners. It was US Immigration laws. canadians were not allowed to play on US teams. The only way expansion to the US would work... roster wise... was to eliminate all Canadians & make everything wide open. The US expansion of the mid 90's was doomed from the start because of it.
On 2024-03-29 at 6:29 PM, kelownabomberfan said:Another nugget. The Argos had a guy named "Granny Liggins", which I would put up there with "Randy Rhino". This was before my time so I have no memory of this season.
EDIT - I know we like to crap on TSN but man when you watch these old games you sure miss all of the new technology, like the first down line (so you know if they are even close) and graphics like telling us what the score is more than once or twice a quarter, as well as just telling us what down it is and how many yards to go for a first down. I remember the days when that stuff didn't exist and I also remember having to pay a lot more attention to everything so that you could be informed rather than just lazily relying on technology. I definitely think that while I appreciate being kept informed in real time it has made my brain go to mush a bit when it comes to paying attention to details.
Granny Liggins was a great player. One of the last who could go both ways in a game. He was 7th in the Heisman Trophy voting his senior year. We used to get so many quality players coming up here like him because of the lack of American pro teams, smaller rosters, leagues & money. Multiple CFL All Star at OG & DT. BTW, Granny is short for Granville.
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On 2024-03-31 at 11:20 AM, GCn20 said:
Meanwhile in Rider land they think they may have a real chance at signing Claybrooks..Can't make this stuff up.
Devon Claybrooks??? There's a blast from the past. I think he's coaching in the BC Junior Football League now. The new Rider HC Corey Mace kind of reminds me of him. He became the Next Big Thing with the all star defense he coached the last two seasons in Toronto. Claybrooks rose up fast thru the coaching ranks with the Stamps after being a player. He inherited one of the greatest defenses in living memory as Stamps DC & won a GC with Alex Singleton as his MLB. Became the BC Lions HC & failed miserably as they had few defensive stars. Got fired after one season never to be heard from again.
We'll see if Mace follows his former Defensive Coach Claybrooks & fails miserably in Regina.
9 hours ago, JCon said:Can you wear Rider gear and not stink?
The Saskatchewan Stink. Kinda has a nice ring to it.
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On 2024-03-23 at 3:51 PM, Super Duper Negatron said:
Apologize? What is this article even about?
It's a dumb article primarily written to get clickbait. Maybe the Ti Cats need to apologize to James Butler for woefully underpaying him.
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21 hours ago, Noeller said:
Chad Kelly doing Chad Kelly things....
What the hell is he talking about?
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12 hours ago, Goalie said:
The person loads the gun and fires. The gun does not load itself. Pretty obvious. Ppl always look for reasons or excuses when ppl kill themselves. My uncle killed himself when I was 10 and I remember my grandmother never accepted he had mental issues until the day she died. He loaded his gun. He fired. The disease did not.
That's cold. Really cold.
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5 hours ago, JCon said:
No, that 🤡 is Purifoy, I believe.
Leonard hasn't peed in 8 years to avoid getting tested. Then he berated the poor staff that had to collect the sample.
Yeah, time to go in more ways than one.
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On 2024-03-18 at 10:09 AM, JCon said:
Finally, he can pee in peace.
Is that rthe real life clown who wears an evil closn mask when his team is 1-234456 in the standings? if so, then go retire, already.
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On 2024-03-04 at 6:59 PM, Brandon said:
I'm going to assume he is crippled by the time he is 40.These guys are crazy.
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On 2024-03-14 at 12:46 PM, GCn20 said:
Willard Reaves just trucking guys too. Forgot how good Reaves was. Weird his name rarely comes up whenever we debate best Bomber RBs of all time and it should be in the discussion every time.
I've always pumped Reaves tires but most younger fans don't remember him. They just remember Charles Roberts.
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37 minutes ago, camper_2 said:
Must of hit a nerve, insults & name calling. It is what it is!!!!
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On 2024-03-14 at 1:52 PM, Noeller said:
I don't hate Commonwealth, as a stadium. Certainly a far cry better than McMahon. The biggest issue with it, again just IMO, is that damn track, which sets the fans even further back from the field. It's also far too big for the CFL. I know they like having it for big events, but it can be cavernous for a CFL game.
They originally built it to hold 42,000 but expanded it for the World Student Games to 60,000 which was ludicrous. I went to the 78 CWG & really liked the place at that size. They should have kept it at 42000. It is Gi-Normous now.
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14 minutes ago, camper_2 said:
Totally agree with you Pete...
I limit my visits and comments on this site as there are a few in here who wish to control the board with their views, roll their eyes at others and feel their feedback only matters. What collection of individuals.
And yet... Here you are. Gracing us with your presence, Your Lordship.
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1 hour ago, bb1 said:
The offseason..aint it grand? 😉 What we have here is a failure to communicate....
No, we have a pretty good discusssion going here about QB tandems & playoff crossovers with a bunch of posters. I'd say that ain't lunacy or a failure to communicate.
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6 hours ago, GCn20 said:
You also can't dismiss that wins matter when talking CFL history that wins matter. BTW, if context matters as you say the Riders offence finished 4th overall that year in points scored. Does that sound historically significant to you? I have said all along that the Barnes/Hufnagel combo was a good one...no doubt about it. However, I just don't see them as a historically significant QB tandem....they won nothing. This league has a long history of very good QB tandems and Barnes/Huffer would be somewhere in the middle of the pack imo. I don't care how weak the East was that year and I'm not sure why it even matters? Every West team played the same amount of games vs the East and each other...the Riders finished 4th and out of the playoffs. Also, of the sake of context it should be added that Hamilton finished with the 2nd best record in the CFL that year at 11-4-1 so the argument that a crossover would have resulted in a Cup berth where they would have defeated the Moon and the Edmonton dynasty goes even further out the window. Simple as that. If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle is not context it's a hypothetical reach to justify the fact that Speed has a boner for this duo that didn't get it done in the win column and were defeated in the final game of the season by BC in a game to decide 3rd and final playoff positioning.
They won "nothing" because the politics of the CFL at the time wanted an East-West Grey Cup, even if the West won 11 more games than the East had Montreal made it to the Grey Cup. As it stood, the Esks won 9 more games than the Rough Riders. It was politics to do nothing about the imbalance of the East back then for 15-16 more years. The CFL wanted their East-West Grey Cup & they got it. And were ridiculed for it for a decade or more as the subject always came up every year. As far as the 81 Grey Cup went, give credit to Ottawa for punching a fat, sassy & overconfident Eskimo team in the mouth in the first half of the 81 GC. But all it did was wake up the sleeping bear in the second half.
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15 hours ago, Pete Catan's Ghost said:
22 yr old Richard Nemeth played R Tackle this game at 6'6', 245.....75 lbs. less than Yoshi at the same height.
In the next decade, the OL in the CFL & NFL would grow.... big & heavy. The Dallas Cowboys in the 90's set the standard for all OL's to follow.
The Winnipeg Thread
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Winnipeg made it onto the Pat McAfee Show today. He didn't know where the city was but couldn't get over how crazy the Jets fans were.