SpeedFlex27
-
Posts
18,725 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
84
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Articles
Posts posted by SpeedFlex27
-
-
23 minutes ago, WBBFanWest said:
There would be by-laws in place that would lay out what would happen. In many cases, the money goes into some sort of charitable organization.
There is talk about building a new 30,000 seat stadium for both the Elks & Edmonton's Canadian Soccer League team. It would require government money to get it done. I just shake my head thinking they'd actually tear CWS down. Couldn't they renovate it? Reduce capacity to it's original 40,000? Fix the concourses, washrooms & concessions areas to bring it up to modern standards? Add more private suites. I'm not a civil engineer so I don't know if that is possible. However, it's almost 50 years old. So, maybe it is time to get rid of it. The demolition cost would be a pretty hefty bill all on its own.
I think it tells you about the tale of 2 cities if Edmonton built a new stadium for the Elks while in Calgary, the Stampeders are still stuck in that shithole of a facility called McMahon Stadium because the politicians down here just don't give a **** about the CFL.
-
2 hours ago, 17to85 said:
Geeze elks going private feels like a blow to the league...
It'd be a bigger blow if they ceased operations.
1 hour ago, Captain Blue said:I actually think more "community owned" teams would be beneficial for the CFL. Private ownership has its own issues, as we have seen terrible owners and also complete lack of good candidates in some cases.
Every team in the West used to be community owned.
- JohnnyAbonny, rebusrankin and wbbfan
-
3
-
21 hours ago, Goalie said:
I don’t really know who those guys are either but let’s not pretend like putting together a mock draft is rocket science here. MBB should do one cuz we all have the google machine and can look these ppl up. The issue with these mocks is atleast make it make sense. Why didn’t sask go ol in rd 1? Why did Edmonton go receiver If Dublanko is perceived as being a year 1 starting LB. Why is Winnipeg wasting a 2nd pick on a FB when he’s prob available in round 5.
I'd like to see Jim Barker do a mock draft. At least he knows the players & could probably do a very good job but it's TSN so it'll never happen. Instead we have Hodge.
- wbbfan, rebusrankin and Bigblue204
-
3
-
8 hours ago, GCn20 said:
9-7 and they would have beat Moon and company....sure whatever. They finished 4th in the West out of the playoffs. Crossover or no crossover this wasn't some dynamo of a team. I didn't say they were average btw, just that they don't deserve the moniker of two headed monster and unstoppable force that people had bandied about. They were a good tandem, nothing more.
True. However, at the end of the day none of that happened. They were the 4th place team in the division and didn't make the playoffs. Everything else is just conjecture. Luck of the draw has not been kind to many, many really good QB performances. The gold standard will always be the ability to win when discussing QBs. It's why Marino is an afterthought to Montana etc. etc.
You have no clue. You can stick to your ideology like some feckless zealot while ignoring the facts. The Edmonton Eskimos finished first in a very tough Western Division where a 9-7 Rider team didn't make the playoffs in the West while a 3-13 Montreal team did in the East. The Rough Riders at 5-11 had the the worst record of any team to ever play in the history of the Grey Cup.
The Esks should have blown the doors off of Exhibition Stadium in Toronto with Ottawa yet instead got their asses handed to them in the first half. The Rough Riders had a 20-1 halftime lead over the Esks.
The Esks charged back scoring two touchdowns in the third quarter & 11 more points in the fourth while the Rough Riders scored only a FG in the second half. It was a Dave Cutler FG with only 3 seconds left that gave Edmonton a 26-23 win. So, do I think the Saskatchewan Roughriders could have beaten them that day had they made it to the GC? Yeah, damned right I do.
Marino's no afterthought. Go have another drink.
-
Oh yeah, I had another hobby before I had to stop coaching football with my arthritis, which I did for 15 years. Won a five of 6 city of Calgary football championships & four provincial titles coaching pee wee (10-12) bantam (13-15) & spring league (15-17).
I was a HC for 1 city & provincial win at the pee wee level. I also founded a bantam team in Calgary called the Falcons in 2005. I was given 6 footballs by the league & that was it. I built the team from the ground up, had to buy equipment, find a practice facility & was also the HC. Recruited my coaches, manager, treasurer & started in January 05. We played our first game in August.
Out of 8 games we won 4 but misssed the playoffs. Other teams thought we'd be a pushover but we weren't. We could run & throw. Our defense had some players that became All Stars. It was so much fun but a ton of work. I now sit as a Board of Director of the SE Calgary Colts. Love what I'm doing as I can still contribute to our organization in a positive light as well as still be associated with football in some way.
-
19 minutes ago, camper_2 said:
I like your comments and agree. Mocks are mocks and in my case I further use them to get myself familiar with the prospects who are available for the year. I do research the current crop of prospects starting in Nov of each year and use the mock(s) as a guide and look to see if I'm way out. In some cases don't agree with the positions/players the Bombers would select as proposed, but still do find/use it as a tool for my purposes. I enjoyed reading/looking at these mocks. Good on the guys who do them!!!!
But, there are a few of the self pro-claimed experts in here and a few others that will band together if self pro-claimed experts are challenged in here. They love to shoot this/these mock(s) down as was the case last year as well. I actually would like to see their mock draft(s) as I asked one of them to provide.
The difference is we don't go online with our comments other than here. There are too many fanbois masquerading as actual football journalists at 3DN. It hurts their credibility. They could easily have better writers giving us better content but obviously don't want to pay for it. So, you have guys like Hodge & Ryan Ballantyne doing pieces for them. You get what you pay for.
-
8 minutes ago, M.Silverback said:
Agreed. I love the idea of a FB - old school, neck roll John Riggins type - but in reality, who uses a FB? NFL or CFL? Your best bang for buck in CFL drafting is OL, DL, WR, DB. LB's for some special teams. FB?
The CFL no longer plays full time fullbacks, neck rolls, snot busting blockers, three yards & a cloud of dust who rush for 225 yards along with a 2.3 yard rushing average & you have to take out a slot. Maybe a potential thousand yard receiver. That's why the CFL no longer has full time fullbacks. No more Thunder & Lightning combos anymore.
-
5 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:
For the past few months, I have gotten into card collecting. I started with the newest CFL upper deck series. I have pulled some really good Bomber auto cards and inserts. Probably my best one is an 8/10 Willie Jefferson High gloss CFL Greatness card. I am on the lookout for a Rasheed Bailey auto card. I just also ordered the new Upper Deck Series two NHL cards. Fingers crossed, I will get a Bedard Young Guns, lol.
2 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:The 1/1 Conner Bedard card has a million-dollar bounty on it. https://thehockeynews.com/collectibles/latest-news/1000000-bounty-offered-for-coveted-connor-bedard-rookie-card
Yeah, I buy the new jersey, no matter how ugly they are, just to keep my collection up to date.
6 minutes ago, bigg jay said:Not completely accurate. Calgary did have a PPV event (UFC 149) back in 2012 that was completely ravaged by injuries (9 fighters out due to injury & a couple fights lost due to contract issues) but they did come back in 2018 (UFC on FOX 30: Alvarez vs. Poirier 2). It wasn't a PPV but it was a good event and they only had 1 undercard fight fall off the card.
Ha, ha. I take your word for it since I totally forgot. I have been to MMA events in the city before but I never went to this UFC event. Coming back 6 years later & it's not even a major PPV event tells you the importance of Canadian cities to the UFC. Except for Toronto.
-
2 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:
For the past few months, I have gotten into card collecting. I started with the newest CFL upper deck series. I have pulled some really good Bomber auto cards and inserts. Probably my best one is an 8/10 Willie Jefferson High gloss CFL Greatness card. I am on the lookout for a Rasheed Bailey auto card. I just also ordered the new Upper Deck Series two NHL cards. Fingers crossed, I will get a Bedard Young Guns, lol.
What Upper Deck hockey card is fetching a ton of money, I heard on the news. Connor Bedard?
-
54 minutes ago, MOBomberFan said:
He played all over the place when he wasn't filling in for someone on the DL, they got him on the field a variety of ways. DT/DE, OL, FB. One memorable moment of 2009 was Oos catching the ball in open field for a good 20 yard gain. He played enough snaps at FB to have 2 receiving TDs in his career, that's not nothing. I'm not knocking him, I was a big fan
I know. We're just saying he was drafted as a DL. That he was able to play other positions is a testament to his athletic abilities. But he wasn't a true fullback. Or drafted as one.
-
57 minutes ago, Goalie said:
Wwe only comes twice a year. Aew also. Winnipeg is kinda stand alone ish that way although Minnesota isn’t that far. Rumours are WrestleMania in Minnesota next year. It’s possible they run Winnipeg for Raw that week. UFC tho, I wouldn’t expect them back anytime soon.
UFC did the same thing in Calgary years ago. They changed the card with so many matches from the original advertised that it was a fiasco. Calgary UFC fans were unhappy. They promised to be back but they never have.
-
Everybody kinda figured it was something like this. This anti doping **** is getting crazy, if you ask me.
-
12 minutes ago, 17to85 said:
Oosterhuis was a defensive lineman though?
Yeah, he never played fullback full time.
-
3 hours ago, bigg jay said:
They were set run another show in Saskatoon in June of 2020 (even though their first show only there had like 7k in the crowd). They aren't (or weren't at least) against returning to a city that wasn't a smash hit the last time.
That being said, unless things change, most smaller cities in Canada are going to be off their list. Now that they've been running their smaller shows in their Apex Center, they don't really have a need to travel for their Fight Night events. it's much cheaper and easier (logistically) to have those shows there. They're only doing the odd smaller event outside of Vegas which pretty much takes places like Saskatoon or Winnipeg out of the running.
There are new laws in place in Manitoba which allows amateur MMA (previously not sanctioned but fights still happened). Hopefully we can get some promoters here to start following the Alberta/BC model that has been very successful out there - a mainly amateur card but headlined with 2-3 pro fights. It helps keeps the costs down for promoters by only having to pay a few fighters and gives fans some higher lever fights to watch.
Is Tom Wright who was CFL Commissioner two decades ago still heading up UFC Canada?
-
1 minute ago, bigg jay said:
My main hobby/interest is anything related to fighting.
I was a fan of wrestling and boxing as a kid and my favorite hockey players were always the enforcers. Dave Semenko was a cousin so as a kid in the early 80's that was a huge deal and probably influenced a lot of my interests. When the UFC came around in the early 90's, I was obsessed with that and eventually turned it from an interest to a paying side gig.
I started out working behind the scenes for a local MMA promotion before getting hired by our provincial commission. I worked my way up to being a fight judge (mma, boxing, kickboxing), to a level that had me travelling across the country, working for the biggest promotions (UFC, Bellator). The pandemic has really changed the industry though (it's basically dead in the prairies at the moment) so I'm back to being a fan mostly now but hopefully one day things will pick up again.
UFC would still be big on the prairies, wouldn't it? I mean. their PPV's are always a huge success. Quick question, does Mike Tyson have a chance against Luke Paul on July 20th? Should any State or Provincial Boxing Association sanction a fight between a 29 year old & a 58 year old?
-
Whatever. The Western Conference was very, very strong in 1981. The Esks finished 14-1-1 for first place, The Bombers went 11-5 & finished second. The Lions 10-6 finishing third & the Riders at 9-7 finished fourth in the West. Combined, the West won 50 regular season games that year & the East just 21.
In 1981, the Montreal Alouettes finished third in the East & made the playoffs with an abysmal 3-13 record. How freaking embarrassing for the CFL was that? The league's credibility was called into question. The Riders won 6 more games than the Als & were fourth in the West yet didn't qualify for the playoffs because there was no crossover. I remember fans & media crying how things needed to change. However, in typical CFL fashion, I remember the league getting right on it by taking another 16 years before it would allow crossovers in the playoffs beginning in 1997.
What happened to the Riders was a travesty. I'm just glad the Bombers never experienced anything close to that back then. Chances are had there been a crossover, the Riders would have been the Eastern representative in the Grey Cup. Who knows, maybe they would have upset the Eskimos as they barely beat the 5-11 Ottawa Rough Riders that year.
But sure, it was the Riders quarterbacking. It was just average. They didn't win.
-
1 minute ago, GCn20 said:
They didn't win. I have consistently said for years that's my ultimate measuring stick for QBs. It's why I don't believe Trevor Harris was ever an upper echelon QB for instance. I truly believe that really good offence is good for 10 wins in this league by itself. You wanna go higher than that and then you need defence and ST help. Just my opinion. I remember watching Barnagel, and they were OK. Just in case you think my post is purely Rider hate, the very best QB combo I have ever seen was Austin/Burgess.....now that was a killer combo. I'm not trying to slag Huf/Barnes, just that I think they were average.
Like I said, 4600 yards & 33 touchdown passes are better than just okay. If they did that with the Bombers you'd be crowing over their performance.
-
I used to do a lot more physical stuff when I was younger. Until arthritis caught up with me as did surgeries in my right shoulder, both knees & both feet took away just about everything I used to do. Like a lot of fishing in the White Shell, Lake Of The Woods, Quesnel Lake at Caribou Lodge east of Bissett, MB (we just called it Caribou Lake back in the day), along the Winnipeg River at Pointe Du Bois & the Lake Manitoba Narrows. Then I moved to Calgary in 1990 & that was it for fishing for me. I never got into fly fishing.
Used to do a lot of curling in Manitoba at the Fort Rouge Curling Club. Curled here in Calgary at the Calgary Curling Club until I physically couldn't do it anymore because of arthrtitis. I haven't thrown a rock since 2009. Golf same. Not for at least 20 years. I loved to golf, fish & curl. I also used to run but that ******* arthritis took running from me too.
I do have some CFL collectibles. I'm trying to collect more much to my wife's angst as she keeps telling me I'm too old to do that we must downsize because once she retires in 4 years she wants to sell the house & buy a condo...
-
Amazing two years ago we had no idea who dalton Schoen on. Just think about that. Such a dynamic receiver.
- rebusrankin and wbbfan
-
2
-
3 hours ago, iHeart said:
Do you watch Fire Country? It does nothing fo me...
-
11 hours ago, GCn20 said:
They didn't make the playoffs. End of story. I didn't say their play was subpar....I said it was not a two headed monster worthy of mention as one of the great QB tandems. Has nothing to do with the RIders. Go get a Snickers if you're feeling pissy.
I think that Clements and Huffer tandem was a far better tandem than Barnagel. Just my opinion.
Ni idea why you'd take offense to what I say but it seems you need a Snickers way more than me. Hufnagel & Barnes had a helluva season in 81. They truly were one of the gretest tandems to ever play. Why all the angst?
Like I said, the CFL was so abuzz about their play that they were given a nickname J.J. Barnagel by someone in the media & the name stuck.. Think that would happen if they stunk? It's not always the qbs fault when they lose. The Rider defense wasn't up to par so they gave up a lot of points. With the Bomber tandem, Clements played 75% of the time with Huff coming in for the other 25%. In saskatchewan, Hufnagel played 60% of the time & Joe Barnes about 40%. So you can't even compare the two tandems. In Saskatchewan, both guys played a lot & played well.
- coach17, Mark H., kelownabomberfan and 1 other
-
4
-
3 hours ago, JCon said:
No, thanks. It certainly has not improved the product.
I got tired of watching McEwen point his way into these.
Koe clearly did not belong out there and lost in his own provincial playdowns.
Agreed. It isn't a better system. There's no way as many people are watching the BRier like they were ten years ago. If they were, then they wouldn't be playing in venues that are 40% of the size they played in during the 90's-10's. It shows the system is broken. Who wants to see four teams from one province if you don't live in that province??? Wearing different colours than the traditional provincial sweaters as well. It's become a mish mash.
-
4 hours ago, GCn20 said:
Two headed monster or dangerous is a pretty generous description but I guess it was one of the few years in the 70's and 80's that the Riders finished above .500 so while not all that great compared to the rest of the CFL, it certainly was pretty good QBing by Rider standards.
The two headed monster played much better than that lame description.. Both qbs threw for a combined 4,603 yards & 33 touchdowns. But it's the Riders so naturally let's dismiss their play as subpar. The CFL was all abuzz about the way Joe Barnes & John Hufnagel played in 1981. Those guys carried a so so team on their backs all season. They finished 9-7 out of the playoffs as there was no crossover at that time.
- Piggy 1 and kelownabomberfan
-
2
-
3 hours ago, bearpants said:
LOL, that is true... ol Randy Rhino is a little before my time
Stellar defensive back. Part of Marv Levy's great 70's Montreal defensive teams. First team All American at Georgia Tech. Drafted by the NO Saints in 1975. Signed instead with Charlotte of the WFL in 1975 & played one season for the Hornets. Signed with the Als in 1976 & played for them thru the 1980 season. He then signed with the Ottawa Rough Riders in 81 before retiring. He was a CFLEastern Conference All Star in 1977, 78 & 81 as well as named to the CFL All Canadian team as a DB the same years he was an Eastern All Star. Returned 31 kickoffs during his career & over 300 punt returns. He had 22 interceptions as well during his career. He was a real stud. One of the best players in the CFL during that era.
- Mark H. and kelownabomberfan
-
2
General Hobbyist Thread
in General Discussion
Posted
MY Mother & father grew up on their farms in Manitoba. Neither of them were excited about gardening but man, could they ever grow things in our very large backyard in the 50's & 60's. There was dill, green onions, tomatoes, carrots, beets, radishes, lettuce, cabbage, corn & potatoes. We had flowers around the house & in a flower bed out front.
My Dad planted three crabapple trees in the yard & they gave us fruit for years. Either crabapple pie, jam or wine for my parents or guests (but not me). I loved to eat those crabapples right off the branch. I'd usually stuff my pockets if I was leaving the house. Great memories. then they got into their mid 50's & they decided to stop & my father sodded the back yard.