SpeedFlex27

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.

That'll quiet the masses in Saskybush.

I believe that just because Gaitor never came back doesn't mean he can sign with the XFL. No longer being with the team & being released by the team should be 2 different things contractually.

Banks should beat out Fajardo.

Other teams do it. We don't. No reason why we can't but not LaPo's philosophy.

I don't recall when the World Hockey Association burst on the scene in 1972 Winnipeg having any trouble signing free agents. Bobby Hull was the best power forward in the world & he signed with the Jets. Other NHL stars followed like Thommie Bergmann, Serge Savard, Randy Carlyle, Chris Bordeleau, Ted Green, Ernie Wakely & Joe Daley followed. Then there was the influx of Euros that came over in the mid to late 70's. No one ever complained about the cold weather. Or how dirty it was. I'm sure most didn't like minus 35 temperatures but they shut up about it. Just a different generation of players today.

Like I said, maybe but he knows LaPo's system best & that would probably mean that what we do now with Harris at the expense of the passing game would stay in place which is not good. Do you think Ryan Dinwiddie would put in a different system offensive system if he became an OC with another CFL team? He'd be hired because of the Hufnagel-Dickenson system he has coached in for years. Dickenson's offense is the offense Huff coached & what Dave was familiar with as a quarterback, running backs coach, OC & HC of the Stamps. Look at the West Coast Offense coaching tree that Bill Walsh spawned in the NFL. He had assistants who learned & knew the WCO cold. Guys like Mike Shanahan, Jon Gruden, Andy Reid, Doug Pederson, Gary Kubiak & Mike Shanahan to name a few. They knew the system & they coach the system.

So then, based on the spoiled athletic snowflakes who now play pro sports, only teams in the Sun Belt of the US deserve to have teams.

Offensive PHILOSOPHY not formation.

LaPo's system is the one Buck knows best. You can be sure that if he was an OC that a lot of what LaPo does Buck would do as well. Football is famous for copying. If one CFL team won a Grey Cup or had success with 2 tight ends then you can bet other teams would copy. Why do you think every team runs shotgun? Because one team had success & everyone copied. Copying is the nature of football.

A run first offense is an 80's style attack. I don't want more of the same with Buck that we had with LaPo. I want an offense that stretches defenses downfield & can score from anywhere on the field. I'd rather have Harris run for a thousand yards, a qb who throws for 4,000 yards & have at least 2 receivers with a thousand yards each.

Bauming is an ass.

Of course the twitter conversation was at 6 am this morning so trying to find it now is impossible.

The minute Trump is gone begins the international rebuild by the new President who I assume will be Democrat. Alliances will be strengthened but trust will take longer to take effect.

Ten years ago, no one thought a guy like Trump could ever have got elected. That we had become enlightened & no one like him could ever get elected. But since his election, it has emboldened racists everywhere which is sad.

Our country isn't much better. There are wretched politicians from all parties. Here & the US but things have deteriorated since Trump was elected.

Thanks man. Skol!

Sorry guys, I THOUGHT I saw a tweet this morning saying Scheifle picked up a major injury. I didn't check the date of the attachment which I should have. Just assumed that was what happened. I did think it was odd that he suffered the same injury against the same team. Didn't put 2 & 2 together. More than just a little embarrassed here.

Nope. Signed a 3 year deal so he has 2 left. **** Old man Braley. A man who loved every sewer hole cover he met.

Please go back to talking about Big Chris. You were a miner. You must've been so much fun at union meetings telling everyone to leave it in the ground & to get paid doing it.