SpeedFlex27

It's one thing to play MLB & in the NFL. How many can say they played in the NHL & CFL?

Jeff Croonen. There's a sad story here somewhere regarding being assaulted by a friend/acquaintance who attacked him from behind leaving him with brain damage & his CFL career over. The incident is referred in the link but I can't find details anywhere. Croonen passed away suddenly at age 46 in 2013. I didn't know any of this until I read the link. RIP Jeff. https://www.cflaa.ca/in-memory-of-jeffrey-croonen/

Sorry Noeller... He gave us one of the greatest TD celebrations of all time.

With one leg he can't tread water.

Exactly. Rules for something like this takes the fun away.

Would you want to sit in the same water as Pat King????

Well, since this is a discussion board & there's no fast or strict rules then on the 33rd day before the season starts you'll probably see Harris here that day. He was the GC MVP for us in 2019. We'd have not won both GC's without him.

Just an aside regarding hot tubs during the occupation. Someone tweeted that the water in those cesspools were 2 weeks old. Lol.

There should be some hot tubs available on the cheap. Do what all Winnipeggers do. Leave Winnipeg at 6 am on Game Day, drive to Regina, see the game & drive back. Only 6 hours. Forgot about Ottawa. Yeah, I'd add that city to my list.

In 2013, I heard people had booked hotels in Weyburn & Moose Jaw. Like, why bother even going? Getting in your car after a night of partying & driving for 45 minutes to go sleep somewhere then having to drive back the mext day isn't my idea of fun. Especially after drinking. I'd just stay home if I couldn't get a legit hotel in Regina. The only cities I'd go for the Grey Cup are Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal & Winnipeg.

Lorne "Boom Boom" Benson

As long as they played for the Bombers then anyone should be eligible. That's my opinion, anyway.

Let me understand this... Are you saying that former players are disqualified because they played elsewhere afterward? So, Dieter Brock is disqualified because he was traded to Hamilton? Andrew Harris because he's now an Argo? That makes no sense. If a guy played for us he should be allowed to be posted with his number in a Bomber uniform. I agree that Harris shouldn't qualify as an Argo. Or Brock as a Ti Cat. But I'm hoping former players in a Bomber uniform when they played for us are allowed. Maybe I'm just reading it wrong.

Lewis wore #99 until 1959 when numbers were changed.

Leo Lewis...

Last time it was a tour bus company buying all the hotel rooms driving up prices & now this. Regina is too small to host the Grey Cup. It would be like Green Bay hosting the Super Bowl.

If the Russians kill Zelensky &/or his family then he (they) have become martyrs. Nothing Putin does will diminish that. In a lot of ways Putin may win the battles militarily but lose the war as he won't crush the spirits of Ukrainians. Zelensky will inspire the Ukrainians to fight back. No Russian will be safe. Thousands of Russians will die.

Looks like Jason Kenney won't go away even if he loses his leadership review. Everybody despises him. It doesn't matter what political party Albertans support. They can't stand him. May 2023 can't come soon enough. Braid: Kenney lowers the traditional bar for keeping his party leadership (msn.com)

Braid: Kenney lowers the traditional bar for keeping his party leadership (msn.com)

Probably the worst program in the NCAA at the time. I could tell you stories but it would sound like sour grapes if I said anything more. I will say one thing positive. Tyler's QB Coach was Joe Paopao. In March 2015, he blew out his hamstring training in the off season before his senior year. He should have had surgery but was misdiagnosed. He was sidelined during Spring Practice in April. He was limited as to what he could do at the main camp in August. One of the things Tyler liked to do was be a mobile qb. Scrambling & throwing on the run. He couldn't do any of that & it wasn't until early October where he could actually go into a game & at least move around a little bit. For 2 years, Tyler battled for the starting position with another qb. The other qb was a transfer fron North Dakota State while my son played 2 years of JUCO in California. They botgh were recuited the same year. He was looking forward to competing for the #1 qb position until he was hurt. That hamstring injury meant he had no chance to really play & he only appeared in 3 games as relief. The losing & his injury was a frustrating experience as it wiped out his senior year. He told me that Joe was a great sounding board & they spent hours during & after the season talking football & being a sponge listening to him & his advice. He said it made the season way more pallatable. Joe should have been the HC & Bates an assistant but that was typical of the problems at SFU at that that time. They had coaches put into the wrong positions, It made no sense.

Put some armour & guns on that yacht & it's a warship.

Yes, I feel exctly the same. Both my parents were 1st generation Canadians being born in Manitoba. I had a couple of Uncles born overseas. They & their parents immigrated to our country from Europe. They both would have known their family's stories but no one asked... I never asked... & they never talked about it which was typical of my parent's generation.

I'm Ukrainian on my Mom's side. She was fluent in Ukrainian & English & could switch back & forth mid sentence. Something I didn't truly appreciate until she was gone & I was much older. My Uncle absolutely hated Russians. All Russians. It didn't matter who they were or where they came from. Politicians or civilians he hated them all. I found that out one day when I was a teenager & made some flippant remark to him saying something like, "Russian & Ukrainian. It all sounds the same. There's no difference". I never saw him so angry with me as he was that day & said some things that set me straight in his broken English. Enough to know to never say anything like that again. This was a man who saw his family suffer under Stalin in the 1930's & was conscripted to fight for the Soviets in WW2. I never found out the story of how he got out & came to Canada. Eventually marrying my Mom's sister. Now, it's too late. He's gone as are my parents, uncles & aunts. I have no cousins alive to ask either. It's sad that when people are alive we don't care to ask & then questions about family history go unanswered forever. I may still have family in the Ukraine for all I know. My Mom's family came to Canada in the first decade of the 20th Century & settled near Rossburn. My Mom was born in 1912 & died in 1985. So, I'll probably never know if anyone in the Ukraine today are family.