SpeedFlex27

My youngest would have been devastated. He really liked basketball but he absolutely LOVED FOOTBALL WITH A PASSION. Having that taken away would have been so sad. I think vax passports are a great idea. Let the anti vaxxers stay at home & rot for all I care. They deserve it.

I'm so glad my 2 sons are adults & are married. My youngest would have not done well remote learning. He struggled at times in junior high with paying attention & he went to school everyday. Being on his own to learn away from his friends would have been hard. Plus he loved sports. When he was 14 he played bantam football & basketball. Not having those 2 outlets would have been frustrating for him. maybe even a life changer as football took him to the US to play, coach & eventually live. My eldest would have adapted. He was a smart kid & now a smart adult but he would have been very unhappy not seeing his friends so in that sense he would been frustrated if he was 16 or 17. I've no doubt that he could have handled the on line learning part. Just glad we never had to handle what parents & their kids have to handle now.

Yeah, you have George Parros a crazy former goon as the head of NHL discipline handing out suspensions.

And in my province you need to follow the rules unless you're Jason Kenney & his cabinet. He made the rules but does not follow them... Yet he feels he did nothing wrong. More backlash just like last Xmas. All he had to say that he was sorry but nope... he did nothing wrong. Stupid ****. Didn't learn his lesson from 6 months ago. I haven't seen my youngest son & his wife since Xmas 2019 & my other son & his wife since last fall. We have followed the rules as have millions of Albertans so this hits deep as does having the dinner at the Sky Palace in edmonton. Alison redforsd had to resign over the cost of construction of this building as it is opulent. The PC's finished building it but when the NDP were in power apparently Rachel Notley never set foot in the place. The rule here is outdoor gatherings can occur but there can't be more than 10 people with no more than four from one household. So six or 7 different people aren't allowed for their working meeting... (burp!) (hic!!) contravened the rules. Man, people would have forgiven Ralph Klein or said big deal but not Kenney. He is reviled by everyone. His critics which are just about everyone just live for this stuff. https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-premier-says-sky-palace-dinner-was-fully-rule-compliant-as-backlash-continues-1.5455455

I read today that your Premier was saying Thank God this pandemic didn't happen in 2017 as Pallister said he had time to fix the ICU's & health care system in Manitoba. Fixed so well that patients are being transferred out of province to Ontario & Alberta. Calgary & Edmonton are taking 5 patients each to start. What a fricking liar this dude has become. More like Pallister passing his failings onto other provinces. I hope you guys remember all this the next provincial election.

George Thorogood says, "By that time you'll be plenty high... You know when you're mouth a gettin' dry, you're plenty high"

The XFL needs to announce cities & who is running the teams. As well as starting to put organizations in place. I'm sure discussions are heating up now that they don't have the luxury of another year.

The NHL continues to let a POS like Ryan Reaves do his thing. Parros was a goon & he loves what goons do. So, Reaves gets a virtual pass. Repeat offender as well. #Goonies

Watch the merger suddenly take on a more serious tone with some urgency. No way the XFL/CFL if they merge want another league setting up shop in the big media markets in the US next year. If this new USFL is going to go in 2022 then I think the XFL/CFL will as well.

What's happened to Doug Flutie? He looks gaunt. That's the biggest news here.

What happened to Stastny?

Here's a CP rail commercial from 1968. A little corny but still very well done.

I watched in its entirety Game 1 of the Best of 3 1968 Western Final from Regina between the Riders & Stampeders. The Stamps would go on & defeat the Riders to advance to the Grey Cup vs the Ottawa Rough Riders. It was so great to see the heroes of my youth again. Stamps qb Peter Liske throwing darts into a 35 mph (60 kph) wind that day, Flanker Terry Evanshen spraining his ankle on a touchdown score, refusing to come out & gutting it out the rest of the way, He was interviewed by sideline reporter that day Don Wittman. He told Witt that "nothing will keep me out of this game." Rudy Linterman returning punts like a warrior with no blocking. On the Riders George Reed & Ron Lancaster along with halfback Silas McKinney, receivers Gordie Barwell, Al Ford & DT Ed McQuarters. Thoroughly enjoyed watching that game & seeing all those players again.. The other thing I enjoyed were the commercials. You know how we're subjected to one commercial playing over & over driving us all insane on TSN's coverage of the CFL? Back then, the major sponsors were Canadian Pacific, Labatts & GM. Not one commercial that day was repeated. Canadian Pacific especially. They sponsored the first half of the game & they had commercials about their refrigerated rail cars shipping frozen meat to suppliers & customers across the country, CP Hotels, CP Air flying across Canada as well as Asia & Europe, shipping ore from mining operations, CP taking cargo all over the world by container ships, CP Trucking, Passenger Rail service across Canada, CP Freight trains, CP Telecommunications like Telex, Broadband & a commercial how they move rail traffic across canada through their network of rail traffic control centres. Labatts had their song, "When you're smiling, say Labatt's Blue". GM introduced their lineup of new cars for 1968 including the Beaumont & others. It's strange to say this today as we all hate the same commercials repeated endlessly during games today but those old ones were all really well done. I was disappointed in CBC's Don Chevrier. He didn't have a great day describing the play. He got players wrong more than once. On one play he said that Stamps MLB Wayne Harris #55 had knocked the ball down from a Saskatchewan receiver when in reality it was corner Frank Andruski #24 for the Stamps. Harris was nowhere near the play so I have no idea how he came up with that.

That logo should be on the helmets not antlers. It's a cool logo being wasted.

Religion has & will continue to be a scourge on all of humanity.

Most if not all 94 recommendations seem reasonable. How many recommendations will the federal government enact?

What would be proper response? How do you make reparations for families ripped apart & kids that died a century ago? I don't know what the solution should be.

If a team is losing three or 4 million a year how is an extra 2 million going to help? They lose 2 million & everybody's happy?? The extra revenue helps but not enough. The situation is dire. How could you say it's not. The CFL collectively lost $80 million. That's an average of $8.8 million per team. So gambling revenues of $2 million would bring that loss down to $6.8 million. The league is dead.

More like being run over by a truck.

A fan's gotta do what a fan gotta do.

Hard not to enjoy the Leafs suffering when we are force fed Toronto constantly at the expense of our own NHL team. So, I say enjoy the angst & the suffering we see in Toronto tonight by all the Talking Heads on Sportsnet. They are stunned. I'm loving every moment here. Go Jets.

Man, I would have to review that thread as it's hard to really understand what you're saying, what angle you're coming from & what others were saying. as far as Residential Schols go, there is racism & privelige woven through all of it. What Bishop Grandin said about getting the Indian out of kids so they'd be ashamed of their heritage & would be Indian only by blood is about as racist as it gets & there is no forgiveness in that. I don't think this quote can even be explained away as times were different back then compared to now which is how I usually feel. I simply can't justify that here. "We instil in them a pronounced distate of native life so that they will be humiliated when reminded of their origin. When they graduate from our institutions, the children have lost everything Native except their blood." Bishop Vital grandin 1875 explaining his reasoning for Residential Schools. The loving religion of the Catholic Church.

No comment.

If the CFL can generate more revenue on Sportsnet, I'm all for it. I'd like to see the CFL back on CBC. I think there'd be room for it on saturday afternnons or Sundays. Or maybe on Thursdsay nights. The ship has sailed on CTV as they are into the NFL. And there was bad blood between the CFL & CTV with former Sports President & longtime CFL supporter Johnny Esaw who vowed the CFL would never, ever ever be on CTV again. He was livid they started the CFL Network to televise games in 1986 for 1 season. As well as (ironically) the CFL's refusal to develop Friday Night Football on CTV. Esaw was pushing hard for it & the CFL braintrust at the time felt it was a bad idea. So, CTV walked away from CFL broadcasts & never came back. This is the kind of pea brained thinking the CFL is famous for & why I question just televising games on a cable network & not seeing if there might have been more revenue getting back on network television.

Manfred Mann used the word "deuce" just like Springsteen's version. The lyrics have been changed a bit but the actual word sounds like '******". Was that deliberate? I don't know as you'd have to ask the band. So, I don't know if it's bastardized.