SpeedFlex27

Here in Calgary there was a years long fundraising effort to build 3 football only articial turf fields for minor football here at Shouldice Park along with a new home for the Calgary Colts. It took many years & hard work by volunteers to raise the money needed to tear out the old grass fields in West Calgary by Canada Olympic Park & install the new ones. The majority of the money was raised privately but they fell a bit short so they approached the provincial government for the remainder of funds to complete the project which included a 1500 seat grandstand on the main field as well as a plaza for concessions & new locker & meeting rooms. The government would only grant the money if minor soccer was included. So, soccer gets to use the facility without having spent a penny & football can't get into the facility if coaches want to run football camps because of time booked by soccer. I hate soccer. Not the sport but the asshats running the soccer associations here. Back in the mid 2000's they tried to get football kicked out of Shouldice Park by booking fields during the same time that community & high school football would have booked it for their seasons. Which would have left football in the City homeless. I remember going to a meeting & the Football Alberta rep there who was also a football coach was incensed. Turns out that the City of Calgary Parks & Rec wouldn't give soccer the fields at the time they wanted kicking football out but I never forgot that. What dirty pool. Backstabbers. Soccer knew the tim that football wanted the fields. Now we have soccer lines painted on all 3 fields. Spit.

Someone needs to sit down the CFL braintrust & tell them that TSN needs to modernize their broadcasts. It's just not good enough. How else can you sell your game to young kids if not by television?? More cameras. better angles. Younger broadcasters. Get rid of that godamned putrid, awful shitty Canadian country they keep pushing on us. The product on TSN at times is just awful. Yet, it's allowed to continue. Nothing ever changes. It's times for Rod Black & Glen Suitor to go. Suitor has been on TSN for nearly 30 years for crissakes. Dustin Neilson & the guy they had on last night can pick up the load of work Black does. Surely they can find an analyst better than Suitor. Status quo is not okay year after year. The perception is that a joke of a tv production makes it a joke of a league to a lot of non supporters. I have read thar TSN ratings for Argo games is actually pretty good. They just don't go to games.

I look at it the opposite. I hate soccer lines on a football field & how it despoils it. They have an 11,000 seat stadium at Western in London. Make it 25,000. Put a team there.

Initially crowds would be good but would fall off. I remember the WLAF's Montreal Machine. First game they drew 55000 to their opening home game. By season's end they were barely drawing 10000. All the NA teams eventually moved to Europe to become NFL Europa.

We're talking a Commissioner in his 60's here... Like me. We don't understand all these new revenue streams. The most savy Commish we had was Mark Cohon. He was plugged in to marketing the CFL & would understand these new platforms. He would be a better leader than Ambrosie is. Too bad we can't get him back.

Truth. People don't have the money anymore. Companies don't have the money for corporate tickets. Tens of thousands of people have been laid off. Ticket prices are too high.

When the Stamps charge $80 for seats on the 35 yard line it's the reason people don't buy those seats.

Why?

Teams just refuse to lower single game day ticket prices. It makes no sense. Question: Is Naman Roosevelt on the roster for Friday's game.

It's just hard to believe there aren't 20,000 CFL fans in Toronto. Gonna be growing pains. His upside looks to be tremendous.

It is so sad to see. How can the Argos not sell out a 25,000 seat stadium in a city of 6 million??

What. A. Shitty. Crowd.

They're not talking about one thing over & over nor trying to find nicknames. And Ford just doesn't yammer on like Suitor. How can a pro player make a mistake like that blocking?

LaPo needs 10 on 2nd down. So he throws a crossing route to Dedmon for 6. Typical. Glad he's gone.

Sure, that's why I see young 20 something males on motorcycles doing 150 kph weaving in & out of traffic on freeways with a death wish. Most "Boomers" are in their late 50's -80's. They're not out partying. Ohh & then there's the Brainiacs at McMaster University last weekend. You're really on a streak today. #BrandonbusybeingBrandon.

Ha, ha. I'd take 50.

Well, I think we're kidding ourselves if we don't think Duke Williams won't make the Sask deep ball game a lot better. Williams height & jumping ability make him a matchup nightmare.

Okay, Tommy Joe Coffey, Hal Patterson, Nik Lewis, Allen Pitts, Geroy Simon, Milt Stegall, Craig Ellis, Terry Greer, Mervyn Fernandez, Tony Champion, Joe Pop, Brian Kelly, George McGowan, Earl Winfield, Terry Evanshen, Ben Cahoon, James Murphy, Tom Campana, Darren Flutie, Rhett Dawson. Tom Scott.

I'm just waiting for that reverse pivot & somebody pancakes him.

One game suspension would equate to one game paycheque so to put it in the proper perspective that would mean 2 weeks pay for you if suspended. How would you feel if your work suspended you for 2 weeks? Thing is, Lawler didn't kill anyone. Yeah, he messed up & will pay dearly by being suspended, loss of a game cheque & being shamed by the public. Plus now he has legal issues to deal with that may or may not have negative consequences on his playing in Canada. Lawler is looking at a heavy fine, loss of driving priveliges & maybe even jail time. However, he's not a murderer so it's a lousy analogy.

This is a super Rider media tire pumper. For him to say that... wow!

I don't agree about the Riders secondary. They are great. Legends in their own minds.

I grew up in an alcoholic family. My father was a drunk. My Mom couldn't drive. You have no idea how terrifying it was going to a wedding or a social event with my parents. Then watching my Dad drink himself into oblivion every time. Afterwards sitting in the back seat of our car with my dad piss assed drunk driving home. There I was sitting in the back seat as a kid just praying we'd get home without being killed. So many times. There was such a feeling of helplessness by me all those times as I was too young to drive. I can only imagine how helpless my Mother felt. She never got her drivers license because she was born in 1912 & raised on the farm something like 10 km from the nearest school so she only had a Grade 2 education. She could barely read or write. She didn't have the confidence to drive. I get what Lawler did. It was so wrong to put himself & others at risk. I hope this was just a one time thing & he learns his lesson.

Wasn't Hughes convicted?

Everybody makes a mistake. Lawler has let everyone down. Bad, bad judgement call on his part. Not only did he get a DUI but he violated league mandated Covid 19 protocols. He may sit out longer than a single game. We'll see.