12 hours ago, TBURGESS said:

What a silly thing to say. Of course it matters what team players play on. You seem to want to blame ABC (Anyone But Collaros) for his last 2 years and then make up things to match your story. No offensive lineman threw balls to the wrong team. Of course you don't count the missed pass blocking assignments that we saw from Koala. As well as the miscommunications between Neufeld & Koala.

11 hours ago, bigg jay said:

I don't know that it's going to be pinned on the air traffic controller. Emergency vehicles are coordinated by the ground controllers, not air controllers and even if the ground crew gave the truck clearance, a plane coming in for landing has the right of way. The ATC was recorded as having told the truck to stop at least 10 times so what more could he have done? He was also recorded as saying he messed up but another ATC told him that he did everything he could. There doesn't seem to be any record of what the ground controllers were doing/saying so that's probably what the investigation will focus on. There doesn't seem to be any communication between the ground crew, air crew & the truck.

The voice who said the ATC did all that he could was a pilot waiting for clearance to take off & was instructed to return to the terminal.

11 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Don’t look up the age of the actor portraying Kirk in SNW 😬

But if you cater to fan service you risk making absolute 💩 like Picard S1/S2 or Rise of Skywalker. Gotta let go of the past to move forward.

That was my fave part of her 😆

You're in the minority. Most fans hated her. And the gay Klingon.

8 hours ago, bryan35 said:

Nope. Just notice that even when a compentent OC is in place he gets blamed for all the problems.

As for Hogan I don't think he is as bad as made out to be. He was stuck with Strev for a while and the O line wasn't very good. I know most won't agree.

I disagree, Hogan was brutal. He was in way over his head. Why JJ wasn't the OC is beyond me. Typical Osh decision.

23 hours ago, bigg jay said:

2 pilots killed after Air Canada plane collides with vehicle at New York's LaGuardia Airport | CBC

Terrible, terrible accident. As much as it looks like the fire truck was directed to be on the runway by an air traffic controller when the Jazz airplane landed, the driver of the firetruck should have checked to make sure the coast was clear. Had he looked properly, he'd have seen the plane coming down the runway at 100 mph. That poor air traffic controller might be the scapegoat & go to jail for negligence. From what I've read he was already dealing with another emergency with another aircraft & may have been distracted as well as overworked due to staff cuts initiated to controllers by Trump & Elon Musk.

1 hour ago, Brandon said:

It doesn't take a genius to realize that when you cater to maybe 5% of the population and ignore the real target demo (see Big Bang Theory nerds) it's mind blowing that projects like this are ever green lit.

It's baffling that these big companies are so clueless with known franchises and drive them to the ground with complete crap.

Discovery was the same way & it was cancelled. Fans hated it. Seeing a barefoot Captain sitting in an undignified way in the Captain's Chair was another thing fans hated about SFA.

10 hours ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Wow a 30 point difference from last season. A gradual drop off it is not.

I’m hoping for a thorough autopsy that reveals the true causes of death. Thought I’d go with the morbid approach on a glorious Monday that it is. :)

Chevy gets a contract extension.

1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Yeah, great to see as helmets are the biggest expense when it comes to buying football equipment for teams. I never hear of anything even close to that from the Stamps when it comes to the football community in Calgary. AFAIK, the team doesn't even exist anymore in Calgary. The media here treats the Stamps the same way the owner treats Calgarians. They ignore them the same way he ignores them. The local newspapers don't even cover away games anymore. Coverage is almost non existent. The owner is such a cheap bastard. Most fans wish he'd sell the team. He's an absentee billionaire owner who lives in Switzerland so he doesn't have to pay personal income taxes in Alberta & Canada after making his personal fortune here in the oil & gas industry. He's either refusing to sell or wants so much $$$ that no one will buy the team.

14 hours ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

Bombers have created a spring Bantam 12 on 12 league this year.

Would be nice if we moved community football to the spring like every other province so we can actually run high school and up with proper resourcing in the fall.

In Winnipeg region we legitimately only have 6 officiating crews for minor football right through CJFL. They also are the stick/sideline crews for U Sports.

In Alberta, atom, pee wee & bantam are in the fall same as high school. We have spring league (formerly called midget) & girls U18 tackle football in spring. Seems to me that the officials associations have to do more recruiting.

13 hours ago, TBURGESS said:

You think that Collaros would have lasted better in Ottawa than Brown did or that Brown would have been injured as often running our offence behind our O-line? That's why arguments based on conjecture are so stupid. There is no way to prove them either way. Just flapping your 'internet' lips again.

Throwing stones in glass houses as usual again. You flap your lips pretty good like a guy with no dentures. It doesn't matter where the 2 qbs played. Both offensive lines were garbage. We played the worst Center in the CFL for years. Brown couldn't last even last the 2 opening games with the RedBlacks. Then spent two full cycles on the 6 game IR missing something like twelve games. Yeah, Collaros luck may run out & we're hooped. If that happens that's 100% on Walters for letting the QB Room deteriorate to where it is now.

When you have actors in their mid 20's to early 30's portraying 18 year old SFA students it suspends whatever little belief that a sci fi series can have. A 30 year old is usually more physically mature than an 18 year old students which includes not only stronger bodies for physically fit men & more developed bodies for women but also facial differences as well.

Not having Tilly as a cast member after it was announced that she'd be part of the series regulars reportedly because the showrunners felt actress mary Wiseman was overweight so wasn't offered a regular part after announcing she would be a series regular. Pretty hypocritical considering the series was supposed to be inclusive seems to be one of the main reasons it was never accepted by Trek fans. Especially, the gay Klingon, Jay Den Krag who seemed to get the most vitriol on social media. I watched SFA & neither liked or disliked it but wasn't surprised it never found its footing with fans.

Yeah, great to see as helmets are the biggest expense when it comes to buying football equipment for teams. I never hear of anything even close to that from the Stamps when it comes to the football community in Calgary. AFAIK, the team doesn't even exist anymore in Calgary. The media here treats the Stamps the same way the owner treats Calgarians. They ignore them the same way he ignores them. The local newspapers don't even cover away games anymore. Coverage is almost non existent. The owner is such a cheap bastard. Most fans wish he'd sell the team. He's an absentee billionaire owner who lives in Switzerland so he doesn't have to pay personal income taxes in Alberta & Canada after making his personal fortune here in the oil & gas industry. He's either refusing to sell or wants so much $$$ that no one will buy the team.

42 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Then, instead of Collaros getting pulped because of a crappy OC and O-line, we would have had Brown getting pulped, but at a cheaper price. Not sure that would have accomplished much.

The way Brown was, he'd have never played an yway. He had large gaps between being performing on the field & IR. I just got the impression Brown may have been able to come back come back but didn't seem to want to. I question his toughness & leadership as he certainly doesn't seem to be another Matt Dunigan or Jeff Garcia.

So, if T Burg wants to pay a guy who's injured more than he plays then how are we saving money? We'd have been paying Brown to sit & do nothing on the 6 game Injury List multiple times.

I think Dinwiddie felt the same & went out & got a qb he feels he can work with in Maier to push Brown. Look what Dinwiddie did with Arbuckle in Toronto last year. Two years ago, it looked like his career was over. If he does the same thing with Maier then Brown is gone. Ottwa is (probably) spending more money on their two qbs than we spend on the 3 or 4 we have now as both in Ottawa are veterans. Other than Zach, our qb room have backups with limited experience or none at all.

On 2026-03-18 at 8:15 AM, Bigblue204 said:

For whatever reason there was a long held belief that 9v9 youth tackle football, wasn't "football" in a lot of minds that controlled amateur ball in the province. And programs suffered under that. Even that change has brought youth football back growing in the province. Along with programs like the Selects, or Recruit ready, Club ball has added a spring league too for U16 and up....there are more and more programs in MB that are just about developing players at every level. Not only skill but just a love for the game. Add in the Bombers 1st class commitment to the youth in tackle and flag and football is seeing a legitimate renaissance here.

For my own info, what have the Bombers done for youth tackle football in Manitoba? It would be interesting to know. Here in Calgary, you sure don't hear much from the Stamps when it comes to tackle football in the community at any level.

9 hours ago, TBURGESS said:

I'd take Dru over Collaros at that price, and it wouldn't be a hard decision.

You'd take this guy if the price is right in your mind.

4 hours ago, rebusrankin said:

Sorry for your loss

Thank you so much. Tragic, hard to comprehend sometimes.

16 hours ago, Noeller said:

Brown should take a pay cut of some kind. He's won nothing & in my opinion showed a true lack of leadership with his play on the field when he did start but was always hurt. Dinwiddie is giving him another chance (his last?) by not signing Crum who was the defacto #1 last season & was actually developing into a decent qb capable of starting. Why he signed to play backup to a young Davis Alexander in Montreal is surprising. Jake Maier could push Dru Brown out the door if he doesn't rebound for 2026.

7 hours ago, CodyT said:

So elgersma isn't coming up then? He's playing in the new soon to be defunct league?

Nope. We may never see him in a Bomber uniform. The longer this goes on, the more I think Walters eventually trades his rights to an Eastern CFL team in Ontario where he's from & went to university down there.

Hopefully we sign Smoke Monday.

7 hours ago, Brandon said:

He made the team! :D

Wow, that is exciting. I remember when Dakota Prukop played in the UFL as well with the New Jersey Generals.

6 hours ago, iHeart said:

Just when you couldn't think the Bachelor Franchise couldn't get any lower, along comes Taylor Frankie Paul

and now they're not going to air it at all....I think it's time to put the franchise out of it's misery

https://deadline.com/2026/03/abc-pulls-the-bachelorette-taylor-frankie-paul-1236760780/

TVLine

The Bachelorette In Crisis: Is Taylor Frankie Paul's Seas...

Taylor Frankie Paul's season of The Bachelorette might be doomed before it even begins — here's why the show's big casting swing might be a big miss.

Glad I've never watched that show. My wife loves it & The Bachelor. She even has a little group that discusses every episode.

12 minutes ago, Booch said:

Powell in my opinion over the last several yrs looks to be the most promising and has all the tools, and seemed to possess the best technique....just needed play time.....prb get some now in Edm

i was wanting us to try and grab him a yr ago already

Yep, we should have been more proactive...

4 hours ago, 17to85 said:

The backup plan was chris streveler. I don't think Elgersema factored in at all. Trouble is strevelers knee is ****** and we got nothing

It was obvious to me at least that Strev wasn't the guy & we needed to move on. The knee injury has forced the Bombers hand but Powell was there. We weren't aggressive enough.

12 hours ago, ShyGuy said:

What about Powell screams 7-8 year starter? He had a fairly unremarkable rookie season. Did well in the one game in 2024 before leaving the field in an ambulance due to a concussion and has thrown 12 passes since.

Well, every qb that backs up someone is unproven & is a roll of the dice. I never said he was guaranteed. But of all the FA qbs available he was the best.

5 hours ago, Bigblue204 said:

well for one thing. It's quite literally can't exist around PAS. There just isn't the room, unless the university is going to get rid of all of it's parking. And I honestly wouldn't care 1 bit if it some how did happen. AND if anyone decides to live there, thinking there would be no issues around noise/traffic etc etc while that venue is being used....they're idiots and as long as those properties are making $$ no one is actually going to care.

That development can be done on the north side of PAS if you look at the renderings. The residential part looks very close to the stadium. As far as no one caring about noise because they're making money, sure. That's why we see just as many videos of people on social media complaining or in conflict with others in rich residential neighbourhoods as we see in the Hood.

6 hours ago, Noeller said:

It's too bad that we're in a holding pattern with Taylor Elegersma that we've completly let the backup qb position become something of a wilderness similar to what happened to our DL. Powell would have been the perfect backup to Collaros. Experienced & still young enough to give us 7 or 8 years as a starter. However, we let him get away for some rookie with delusions of grandeur & a fantasy money tree in his living room.

2 hours ago, Bigblue204 said:

We've had plenty of MB's play for the team during MOS era. Part of the problem was that MB amateur football didn't really have the programs other provinces did to help develop that young talent. We do now. In the next decade there will be more and more MB's playing pro football.

Hope you're right because as soon as that first contract was over after being drafted it seemed that Bomber players just bailed & signed with other teams from or close to their own backyards where they grew up. Which is a problem because the majority of players come from Ontario. Or never came back here after NFL tryouts. Sure, we've had guys sign with the Bombers from Winnipeg/Manitoba. I didn't say that no one ever did.

4 hours ago, Goalie said:

Why? Colorado struggles against us. Jets if they make it would be on a huge roll. Only draft picks helping anytime soon are the top 3 in this years draft and we ain’t picking top 3. This team is not that bad. Helle and 1 line can carry them. 12 and 4 is pretty tough tho and that’s what ppl say they need to get in.

This team will lose in 5 to the Avs. Probably in a sweep.