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The cost of the new LA Stadium has ballooned to $5 billion dollars & there are fears that Rams owner Stan Kroenke won't be able to finance the cost over run of the new home of the Rams & Chargers. The situation is so bad that the NFL wants to negotiate a new CBA with the players & have an agreement by Thanksgiving. If the NFLPA gets involved financially, the NFL is prepared to give the players 49% of revenue sharing. Which just goes to show that even in the NFL there are financial limits. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2858427-report-nfl-owners-want-players-to-fund-part-of-25b-needed-for-new-la-stadium

I've never understood the fascination with starting new football leagues. Every one of them has failed. No league since the AFL has been successful & yet so called sane businessmen are more than willing to face financial ruin trying. After the original ABA (not the recent league) no one has tried again. No one has ever tried a third pro baseball league. No other pro hockey league other than the WHA has ever been a success. Yet, when it comes to pro football every few years we seem to go through it.

Never screw the boss's daughter. Especially if your boss is Bruce Willis.

Zero is being optimistic. The Stamps fanbase is pathetic. There is only a handful of Calgary media here who care. The rest is Flames. Flames. Flames. Other than the 3 media types at 770 CHQR who cover the Stamps on radio, there's only 1 Postmedia beat writer who covers the Stamps for both the Calgary Sun & Herald. His name is Danny Austin. I follow him on twitter. He's constantly tweeting about the Stamps & he engages anyone who comments. The guy likes CFL football & does a good job covering the team. But that's it. No one else really does. The sad part is he's from Toronto & he has more passion for the Stampeders than the rest of the media combined.

He blew it with the XFL the first time. I can see it happening again.

Their run game sucks. We'll pound the rock & have success. If the field is bad that will hamper their passing game. We definitely can take the Stamps out, I feel.

Dark time in recent US history but even though I'm Canadian I'll just say thanks for your service.

While the series has plenty of flaws I must be one of the few who like it. Although I wasn't sad to see the foul mouthed Michelle Vargas get killed off.

The My Lai Massacre up to 500 men, women & children killed. Lt.William Calley was the only American officer convicted even though 26 were charged with war crimes & atrocities.

When I was in Seattle visiting my son & his wife a month ago, I started watching a show called Another Life. Aliens made contact with Earth leaving a huge crystal shell on our planet. We are trying to communicate with it but we also sent a spaceship that travels the speed of light in search of the alien's home world so that we can make contact with them. Katee Sackhoff of Battlestar Galactica & Longmire stars as the Captain of the Earth ship. I got into it when I was there but don't have Neflix at home. Looking forward to seeing the remaining 5 episodes that I haven't seen when we go back down for Xmas. Has anyone else watched this show? If so, what are your thoughts? Critics hate it. No idea why the writers wanted such an undisciplined & dysfunctional crew of 20 somethings in the storyline.

Man, when I hear Da Nang, I don't think about beautiful beaches. I think about the Viet Nam War. The US Air Force had the biggest airbase in the world at the time in Da Nang. I remember being in the US on business a few times in the 80's & seeing former servicemen wearing Da Nang ball caps. If I was an American, I'd have been drafted to fight in Vietnam as I turned 18 in 1973 so that war hit home with me. That was a long & protracted war that actually started in the 50's with France as SE Asia back then was known as French Indochina but in the early 60's the Americans under Kennedy sent in military advisors & the war escalated under Lyndon Johnson in 1965. It ultimately cost him his Presidency as he introduced the draft & Nixon took over the fight in 1968. Peace talks began in Paris in 1969 & would last until 1973. America was a deeply divided nation. Different generation, different memories.

Yet you claim to be an expert on genetics when it comes to Matt Nichols. You are such a

Why don't you just quit while you're marginally still ahead?? You're like a mosquito in a tent during the middle of the night.

Agree. It's week to week now so why not hang in there to see what happens? Strange decision by Gaitor.

Feeling introspective today...

Nice. Great choice.

O'Shea obviously backing up the wishes of his DC Hall.

We expected the Ti Cats to be where they were down east as the most talented team in that division. No one expected the Als to have won 10 games & hosting the EDSF this Sunday. jones should have been the East nominee.

Gonna be different not having CFL football on Friday nights & Saturdays.

Must be nice for McMahon to be a billionaire & be able to cash in his stock options from WWE to finance this little venture, Ha ha. That alone should have told him it can't work. Huge ego on McMahon's part thinking only he can make tis league a success. And you're right about not caring. After the CFL & NFL seasons back to back & the hype leading up to the Super Bowl, I do need a break & watching inferior football doesn't interest me. Most fans think the same. It was proven to be true last spring.

We saw how difficult it was for the AAF to start from scratch & just how much money was sucked dry. Even though the XFL is better financed thru Vince putting up so much of his up front money to get this venture going, he'll still have to deal with losses from every team. The other thing is starting this league in February which means cities north of the Mason Dixon Line down east or Texas in the West will never be able to have a team because of the cold & snow. Sure the weather will improve moving into spring but the transition takes time. Meanwhile 4 or 5 home games could go by until the weather is warm enough to attract decent crowds. The weather in Boston, Chicago, New York, Milwaukee, Kansas City or Detroit can be really bad during a cold & snowy winter. Which means this league will always primarily be a rump Sun Belt league. Not a great future. The only way the XFL has even a chance to survive is to move the season to the fall & go head to head with the NFL. I know that sounds crazy but a rump league won't survive.

The only pleasure I take from that list we're on is that according to NBA players, Toronto is the fourth worst city to play in. Not much to do & the weather is nasty & cold. Players don't want to play in Canada. That's probably why Vancouver will never get another NBA franchise. Does my heart good when I see the Centre Of The Universe means nothing to some kid born & raised in Charlotte or Los Angeles. Kawhi Leonard was one & done in Toronto. Gone to LA the first chance he got.

True but the other guys didn't make millions although at the time it was more money than they probably ever dreamed they'd make. Average players went from $20,000 a year to $75,000 a year back in the early 70's & I know that was a big deal to the players who didn't come from the NHL. The other thing is, they'd have got the money from other teams if Winnipeg never had a team. Guys today are so spoiled in comparisons to that era. Especially when you compare the minor leaguers who signed with WHA teams. They were used to low pay, long drives to far flung places on the bus, cheap hotels, cheap food & being treated like **** by their minor league teams. The dream of playing in the Big League wasn't easy but they still pursued it hoping for a break that for most of them would never come. Then the WHA came along, Hull signed with the Jets, legitimized the WHA, big contracts were being offered to veteran journeyman minor league players & suddenly playing in the Peg with the cold & dirty streets wasn't that big of a deal.

Once again, appreciate the input. Thanks for stopping by.