SpeedFlex27

An extra day of hate. I embrace it.

This team, this city, we fans are overdue. Holy **** are we overdue.

I have hated the Riders with every fibre of my being everyday, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 12 months a year, 52 weeks & 365 days a year ever since that loss. Any day is a great day when the Riders lose.

There's lots of potential karma in this game going back 47 years & in that time that includes a Western Final & a Grey Cup.

The HC at Laney used the "cultural experience" as a way to recruit my son. As in, a Canadian white boy from the arctic flatlands will have a unique experience understanding life on the streets in Oakland. We might have agreed until we found out there are no dorms at Laney. That my son would have to live in that war zone off campus. Uh uh. Never happened. He ended up playing JUCO at College Of The Siskiyous.

You survived a game in Oakland & lived to tell about it. I've been to Oakland four times & was glad I never had to get off the freeway except where our destination was. Just hoping I didn't have car trouble. Laney Junior College in Oakland tried to recruit my son to play football for them. We went to a camp there at the stadium in the off season. Cops were arresting homeless people living under the stands at the football stadium everyday as the practices were going on. Each day as the camp ended as the sun was going down the head coach urged us to get to our cars & GTFOH as soon as we can.

This is my ultimate revenge game as a fan. Who else remembers the 1972 Western Final? Who the teams were? Where they finished in the standings? The horrible way the Bombers lost that game? For us old timers with lonnnnnnnnng memories, just how glorious will it be if we beat the Riders in their home park? In front of their fans? And how good will it feel for us to break their hearts??? The teams are the same but the standings reversed. They're hosting instead of us. Pressure is on them to win in front of their own fans in their House in front of a big crowd. I've waited 47 years for this game. Please Bombers, wash the stench of that loss in 1972 away finally. FINALLY!!!

That's quite the story, wow.

Through Minneapolis?

I've never heard that Kap was lazy or a cancer in the locker room as a teammate. Starting the anthem protest by kneeling was a huge reason why the owners got rid of him as he was used as an example of what could happen if a player bucked the system. Therefore, he became a distraction. It wasn't about winning games anymore. It was about drawing social issues not only to him but his teammates. Meanwhile, with controversy swirling around him politically, he had trouble reading defenses. He couldn't get the ball to the open man after going thru his reads if he indeed even did that. He just wasn't seeing the field like other veteran qbs did. Look at the video I posted above. Two wide outs wide open with no one covering them & he never saw it. That's the kind of qb he became & why he was out of the NFL. Jim Harbaugh was his biggest booster. He got rid of Alex Smith to start Kap. He seemed to get the most out of him as a HC. When Harbaugh left the 49ers, Kaepernick's game just went thru the floor. It completely fell apart. I think had he played well in 2017, he'd have got his shot again but even now he'll demand big money to play & any team that takes him on will have to deal with all the distractions as well as the political baggage he has. That & no guarantee he'll be a difference maker at qb. Should be interesting if the Falcons sign him.

It would be so funny if LaPo turned Reilly into a 220 yard per game passer.

Man, I've had my share!! If you're gonna give it then you'll get it back. All good,

Gaaaaaineeeeey!

He played down to the same level as Blaine Gabbert. At times, Gabbert was better than him. The anthem controversy just sealed things.

His last season in the NFL he played like crap.

Is this going to reignite the anthem controversy again as I'm not wanting to go through that again as a fan?

Was he given a chance to apologize ir was he just run out on a rail by Sportsnet. If he had the chance & refused then that's just Cherry being a stubborn old goat. If they didn't give him that chance then Sportsnet is wrong.

That was wrong.

The entire discussion was about Cherry telling people to wear a poppy. Apparently he got the message across in a negative way. So then, this discussion is about poppies & how people celebrate Remembrance Day. So don't say it had nothing to do with that or Cherry never would have said it. I just pointed out that society seemed to care less & less about remembering our veterans compared to when I was a kid as we were one generation away from our parents & family members serving in WW2. We were taught in school to remember the sacrifices our family members made overseas & the Remembrance Day Act in Manitoba reminded us of it. I'll tell you, up until Canadians served & were killed in Afghanistan, most Canadians were apathetic about Remembrance Day. Most did not care because the wars this country served in were long ago & a majority of veterans had passed away. It took Canadians dying in the Middle East fighting terrorism to wake up Canadians with a jolt to appreciate what our military people do. Yet, no one wants to go back to the way it used to be with retailers & businesses closed. I would welcome those days again. Since I never talked about Cherry I have no idea why your feathers are getting so ruffled. Maybe you should chill & just take in this conversation with a deep breath. I neither support or criticize Don Cherry so why do you seem bent on having a verbal fight? He said what he said & now he has to live with it.

For sure. I was just pointing out how things have changed since I was a kid. The people who get upset when someone doesn't wear a poppy is seemingly okay to go shopping on Remembrance Day as stores are open. I find that contradictory. I don't think I even mentioned Cherry so I wasn't defending him. I honestly didn't hear what he said so it's difficult for me to criticize or defend the guy. However, I do feel strongly about freedom of speech vs political correctness today. Reminds me of the old adage, "I may not agree with what you say but I'll fight for your right to say it". We've certainly got away from that.

Of course, you won't address the "rant" about business hours on Remembrance Day. That's because you want to be able to shop & do the things you want to do when you want to do them. Soldiers who fought & died for your right to do that never had such freedoms. Your somewhat heated response tells me that you just don't get it. The reason everything was shut down was to symbolize sacrifice. If you needed gas & didn't fill up the night before, you couldn't have it. Bars, pubs & restaurants were closed. If you wanted to eat out on Remembrance Day then forget it as you didn't. If you needed groceries & didn't go shopping the day before then you didn't shop & went hungry. If you wanted to see a movie then you couldn't. Good & services were not available so the general public could get an understanding of what sacrifice was about. Over the years, as people aged & the WW1 & 2 veterans passed away, commercial & business interests took over Remembrance Day. Why shouldn't retailers be open, they asked? Why shouldn't stores be allowed to sell everything? Why shouldn't people be allowed to watch a movie or go to a restaurant? And governments bowed to pressure & relaxed the Remembrance Day laws. Sacrifice means nothing today. Yet, we're hung up on wearing poppies. Maybe because that's the only thing left.

Nothing wrong with the other site (TEP). Don't know why people can't post in both.

Only if MOS is back. Otherwise, I can see a qb change or upgrade if a new coaching staff is in place.

Okay, to everyone here who criticize people who don't wear poppies. How come people who do criticize don't get upset when businesses make their employees work on Remembrance Day but can have an extra day off at Christmas in exchange? When retailers are open? Grocery stores that are open? When I was in elementary school, the only businesses allowed to stay open were grocery stores & all they were allowed to sell was bread & milk as those were considered food staples. Gas stations were closed. I worked in insurance industry as a claims adjuster for many years here in Calgary. I had to work on Remembrance Day. We got an extra day off at Xmas instead. Being the son of a WW2 veteran & having family members who fought overseas, I wasn't very happy & resented having to work. I didn't care about an extra day at Xmas. I thought it was disrespectful to work on Remembrance Day. The company's head office was in Montreal & apparently (true story) they didn't care about about Remembrance Day so they made us work. If it was up to me, the old rules would apply for what can be bought & sold: bread & milk. No companies would be allowed to be open. You couldn't fill your vehicle with gas. Couldn't go shopping. If companies were , they'd be subject to heavy fines. Yet, no one thinks buying groceries or doing business on Remembrance Day is disrespectful. Remembrance Day was never meant to be a holiday. But it's treated like any other. Where's the outrage for that? The way I see it, our veterans sacrificed for the right we have to choose to or not to wear a poppy. In other word, freedom of choice. just like they sacrificed for freedom of speech. Which we don't have anymore. Political correctness has replaced freedom of speech today.