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Just now, Bubba Zanetti said:
Not saying they will. Im saying they should.
But they won't so how does saying they should change anything? The CFL will still have to go up against the Stanley Cup playoffs & final. It would be a ratings disaster.
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2 minutes ago, Bubba Zanetti said:
Im all for moving it up, even if its just 2 or 3 weeks. June is being wasted. There is nothing finer than sitting outside on a nice warm day watching some football as opposed to freezing in a snowstorm and having the weather dictate the outcome of a Grey Cup. Screw the NHL playoffs. The NHL season should be moved up too. Hockey in June is ridiculous.
Why would the NHL do that? They won't.
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Once the NHL season starts (even training camps) the CFL is pushed back to page 3 or deeper on the sports pages around the country. How many media people in Winnipeg or elsewhere would be covering training camp or pre season games? if they started the season the first or second week of June there's be little fanfare on the start of the season. Once our playoffs & GC were played in October then we're dealing with MLB & the start of the NHL season. These are huge conflicts that would make the CFL irrelevant. The GC wouldn't get the national exposure it gets now. The CFL needs MORE & not less coverage.
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25 minutes ago, do or die said:
Over the years, we have played a number of Canuck receivers who weren't much faster than me.
What year did you play?
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5 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:
1) what makes you so concerned about this now?
2) what does it have to do with the topic of the Hollywood scandal?
3) what has changed to suddenly make false allegations rampant and damaging as opposed to pre-Harvey?
4) regardless of veracity of hard numbers to support or dispute, the stances of false allegations are comparably low. Shouldn’t we focus on ending the lousy behaviour?
This will filter down to mainstream society. If you're not concerned about this then I submit that you & others just like to see the headlines. Seeing celebrities go down. Nothing to do with justice but enjoying the proceedings. Kind of like a crowd at a disaster taking it all in.
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6 hours ago, Jesse said:
I honestly don’t see a down side in moving the schedule. Cold games keeps fans away, and the conflict with baseball early in the season can’t be worse than conflict with hockey late in the season.
The notion that November football is a ‘distraction’ from the cold weather prior to the holiday season is poetic, I guess, but it’s never crossed my mind.
You'd have the SC playoffs conflict at the beginning of the season as well as the start of the NHL season & World Series at the end. The CFL would be buried. Dumb idea.
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2 minutes ago, Brendan McGuire said:
Agree with the article. Leave the schedule alone.
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4 hours ago, Blueandgold said:
News this important deserves to be its own thread.
Glen Johnson retires. Good riddance.
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Just now, Atomic said:
Yeah concussion.
damn
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3 minutes ago, Atomic said:
I don't put the loss on Comrie by any means but yeah he's not ready for the big league. He made some really nice saves though.
Why is he playing? Is Mason out?
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17 minutes ago, Mark H. said:
Well, there is also the possibility of making regressive moves - we definitely saw some of that this year.
Have to look forward by never looking back.
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2 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:
That’s the point. We’re talking Hollywood, media, celebrities etc
I'm talking everyday. Joe Average. What's to stop a spurned lover from bringing up false charges? Or claim a consensual occurrence wasn't consensual. Maybe someone from our past will claim one of us here did something inappropriate years ago. That's why I want to see charges before anyone is judged here. Prove the guilt in court. If proven, then throw their ass in jail.
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8 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:
@basslicker
Im not saying you're wrong but if you claim many men have been destroyed in the US, please name them.
How can you name people as most would be strangers? My friend in Winnipeg went thru a nasty divorce in the late 80's with their daughter involved. He had visitation rights afterwards but the ex wife always tried to get out of it. One time, she accused him of sexual assault on his daughter because she claimed the girl had a bruise on her inner thy. Had the cops & lawyers involved. No charges were ever laid but he told me she would phone him at work randomly accusing him of all kinds of nasty things from week to week. She was married twice & didn't have to work with the support payments from 2 former husbands. He put his ex wife thru university, supported her financially but as soon as she graduated she bolted demanding a divorce. The guy went to pieces emotionally for being treated like garbage foe years & she polluted his daughters mind so badly that he now has no relationship with his daughter at all. He spiralled down from an IT tech thru different jobs. Now, he works part time at Safeway. The guy had a nervous breakdown & is a mess. The guy was brilliant as an IT tech & now he's just a shell of his former self. He's in his 60's. So, are lives destroyed? Yes, very much so from wingnuts like that.
Name me all the people charged with DUI in Manitoba the past 5 years? They at least got their day in court. The only court I see here when it comes to sexual assault is the MBB Court of Public Opinion & the verdict is guilty.
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12 hours ago, Sard said:
You, and others, keep saying that Walters and O'Shea are doing nothing... how do you know that? Just because they don't publicly state every single thing that they are doing doesn't mean that they are doing nothing, and unless you are in their offices with them, you have no clue what's going on over there.
The Thorpe hiring in Ottawa is another prime example of this. Many people said we "missed out" and "didn't act fast enough", but nobody actually knows that. Walters could have been negotiating with Thorpe, and Ottawa may have just made a better offer. And before anyone says anything about Winnipeg being too cheap and that's why we can't get "the best talent", there are other factors that a coach would consider, including the level of responsibility that they would be given, as well as the relationship that they have with other coaches on staff and/or players on the existing roster.
"Doing something" would have been firing Hall after the season ended. That would have meant Walters & O'Shea would have been proactive. They'd be forced to find a replacement. I think they actually can't decide whether to keep or fire Hall.
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6 hours ago, basslicker said:
Oh she can handle it. she's just jumping on the bandwagon and using a serious issue to attack a political opponent....its disgusting and so is she.
That's the way it looks to me as well.
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On 11/23/2017 at 3:04 PM, J5V said:
I have to agree. Bob Irving is at another level completely compared to the likes of Rod Black. Bob and Doug are at another level compared to Rod and Duane. The only one that comes close is maybe Cuthbert but not really. Part of the reason I believe is that Bob Irving is completely committed to the Blue and Gold whereas the others are spread thinner amongst other teams and events.
How long will Bob want to keep doing pbp? That's the question... I remember back in the 80's I hearing a story that the NY Giants wanted to bring him in as their pbp radio announcer & he turned them down. Small town boy from Regina liked the Winnipeg lifestyle & didn't want to live in New York.
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3 hours ago, SPuDS said:
a) 2 players doesn't make a defense..
b ) Both players didn't seem to play up to their usual standards last season.. Not that i'd wanna go away from either but still, were not on their best games.
There was talent on defense. So much so that we never should have been hemmoraging thru the air & on the ground the way we did last season. Never should have started Hurl. Never should have substituted the way we did. This disaster of a defense is all on Hall & yet here we sit a full month after the season ended & doing nothing while other teams make changes. Other teams have made coaching moves yet typically we still sit. The one big criticism I have of Walters & O'Shea is just how slowly they react to changes. If they can't figure it out by now then something is wrong.
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9 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:
When we get de-iced but have to wait, I always think 'how long can we wait before we need to de-ice again?'. But I also watch Mayday religiously so Im pretty sure I can handle the plane in a pinch. It's always a stall and you should never throttle back! Nose down! Nose down!
Just me but when myself or a family member has to fly I don't watch Mayday for a couple of weeks before. #superstitious
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1 hour ago, SPuDS said:
well not to sound like an idiot but what did Hurl's placement in the defense have to do with us getting all those explosive plays? Some (but very few) happened to come thru the middle but the majority were broken plays, missed tackles and poor execution..
**not that I am advocating keeping Hall OR Hurl in anyway, shape or form... just devil's advocate**
Really SPuDS? C'mon Man. We were run to death. We gave up yards on the ground & in the air with a MLB who did a great job just diving into the DL. MOS said he did a great job being a plugger. If he made a tackle it's because the opposition running back ran right into him as he happened to be there at the time.
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4 hours ago, White Out said:
Starting to worry Hall doesn`t get fired
Early bird gets the worm. Other teams are reactive. With us, it's a process.
Around The League: 2018 Offseason
in Blue Bomber Discussion
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I know. But the way he worded it, I couldn't resist.