SpeedFlex27

Chill dude. Always so angry. You're always just short of a vein exploding in your neck whenever you post. Don't want to have a stroke.

Except that isn't it. More than 3 hours a week involved. That's way too simplistic.

Yes, badly needed.

Then it should be easy to translate to fans who weren't there. How come it's so hard?

Compare it to other pro leagues. Compare apples to apples. Not apples to sunflower seeds.

Not surprising considering there is a new CBA coming. Keeping it status quo would never work. They can't just keep raising the cap every year by $50,000 increments either as it's eaten up right away by inflation as well as paying veteran players more money. They have to find a better way of setting the cap maximum. Even with a $14,000 raise for rookies while it's a start, is still too low. Maybe do what the NHL does by announcing the cap for the following season during the current one. That would be agreed to by the league meeting with the players & showing the books. There'd have to be transparency by the league to the players to do it that way.

We are a boutique league because we pay our players like they are retail sales clerks in a mall. Some random Canadian is making minimum salary& Ambrosie takes away his off season bonus he's owed. Yet the collective agreement hasn't expired. Before our Commish starts talking trash he should look in a mirror.

It was Jeff Orridge who did this but Ambrosie could have overruled it as an act of good faith. Chose not to.

Syncrude & Husky were sure whining. And still are. They liked it at $10 a barrel as they were buying back the refined product at a huge discount & then selling it at world price. Meanwhile, producers were still suffering & job losses were everywhere.

And yet the CFL does the deed of not paying off season bonuses even though the current collective agreement has not expired. That's bush league.

Remains to be seen.

We're the same. We're doing this to hopefully benefit the CFL. But the 2 games are very different. Maybe there are revenue opportunities for the CFL in Europe. I just don't know how or what they are so I'm skeptical. I doubt Ambrosie knows this either which is why this isn't exciting for me as of yet. We know the CFL will be second fiddle over there. That the style of game & rules won't be suddenly embraced. They should play some exhibition games over there to introduce Euros to our game in person. So fans can see just how wide open the CFL can be.

Whoa, not so fast. You should know that Syncrude & Husky Oil are complaining bitterly that the price for Alberta oil is now too expensive to be shipped by rail & both are threatening to curtail shipments of AB oil to market. For the past 2 months, the AB govt has raised production levels of Western Canada Select to keep them at least $10 a barrel lower than West Texas Intermediate. The only way to get full value for WCS is to ship it by pipeline. How can you give Trudeau any credit for any of this is beyond me.

At the same time, the NFL Brand is known world wide. The CFL Brand isn't. Why would countries that play 4 down football suddenly embrace our 3 down brand with a bigger field & different rules? I just can't see that happening anywhere.

Ambrosie wants to up the rookie salary to $70,000 Canadian.

Both sides have bungled this so badly.

Hill may be the best defensive player to ever play in the CFL. Yeah, that includes all the greats at different positions. Total ball hawk. Great instincts to anticipate where the ball would be all over the field. Just a nose for the football. Those are qualities no one can coach. . You either got it or you don't.

Former Seattle Seahawk & Blue Bomber quarterback Jim Zorn is the new GM & Head Coach of the XFL team in Seattle. It was announced this week. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/02/25/hip-hip-hooray-jim-zorn-lands-another-job-leading-seattles-xfl-franchise/

I just remember Rod Hill blocking a lot of punts when he played. One in the 88 Eastern Final that won us the game.

Oh yeah. Well, no one should get a pass if they screw up. And Reed did that with gusto.

Who?

I picked up on that as well. Trudeau has his friends in the media which is why I'm concerned that by the time the federal election happens the Liberal media in this country will bury it.

I said it once. say it again. Reed should be fired.

He can lick his career goodbye