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For his debut he did okay. I think the Ti Cats have to be concerned with how bad Masoli looked at times. Granted his running back who fumbled twice didn't help but Jones was expected him to play better than that. Jones said he kept him in the game longer to play himself out of it but he didn't look like a cool veteran in there.
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1 hour ago, Zontar said:
Papering the house tonight with charity give aways. Want to look good for US eyeballs I guess. Might pour rain.
I'll be there dont worry.
Please make sure you come back here & give us your thoughts on Manziel & the game. Congrats on that damned lawsuit being settled. Now, perhaps you can finally have a Grey Cup at THF &/or CFL Week. Hamilton would do a great jb hosting the Grey Cup.
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3 hours ago, HardCoreBlue said:
Thanks to you and SpeedFlex27 for sharing your thoughts here. This is important to me as a father who has a 14 year old son in football for the last seven years, the game is getting bigger and faster for him and he has pretty lofty goals and aspirations with football right now. So much complexity to consider in how I support him.
To use a football analogy with your son & football. Run with it. Enjoy the journey & let him have every opportunity to succeed. My son was a qb in Calgary. I put him in a lot of qb camps when he was a bantam & high school player. It was nothing for us to get into the car & drive a thousand miles to a football camp in Idaho, Washington, Oregon & California. The camps were great & he learned a ton but the chance to spend time with my son in the car... goin' down the road... just talking & hanging out together was priceless. You never get that time back when your kids get older & move on with their own lives. A coach at one of those camps saw my son, liked him & recommended him to the coach of the junior college team he would eventually play, start for & win a State championship with in Northern California. So, you never know who is watching & when opportunity presents itself.
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18 minutes ago, Booch said:
yup...40's now...I am still indestructible...lol....I think...or would like to think
In my early 60's. I have come to the realization that I'm mortal. That perhaps there aren't a lot of twists left in the road ahead. But I'm totally okay with that. I'm not roadkill yet but whatever happens, whenever it happens is okay.
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2 hours ago, Booch said:
No problem...football has given me a lot and allowed me a lot of opportunities and if handled smartly and not falling into a lot of the negative trappings (higher level opportunities that a lot never get to achieve) then there is no real risks if you ask me if played smartly and monitored wisely like things are now. Back in the late 80's to 90's when I was balling it was all about results..competing and $$ with no regard for the negative impact that getting the aforementioned resulted in guys.
My one bit of advice is if the injuries start to become too frequent, and are significant ones and start to compound then maybe sit down and revisit things..goals..priorities and realistic chances of getting to next level, or the ultimate level. My football paid for my school..and career and some brief stints trying to be famous, as well as some good lifelong contacts and opportunities, but it did come at a price.
A combined 8 knee surgeries on one (2 reconstructions) 2 on the other, a broken hand twice, 4 known concussions, 2 busted noses...total shoulder dislocation, loss of two mollars (thsats a weird one eh?) and various bumps and bruises to go along with lugging anywhere from 245 to 280 pounds of bulk around and the wear and tear that takes on you for 15 years I have already seen now that I am paying back in my health and ailments now...did i enjoy it and would I if I had a chance to do a re-do do it again...I'd say that's a hell ya....was it worth it?...hmmm...I dunno because in the end it didn't make me wealthy and I didn't get famous hahahah
I think you have to look at with this perspective. Football gave you your education. You got to travel & see places others wouldn't. You were part of a dynamic organization ( your team) as well as coaches. You learned how to handle pressure. You learned to rely on others & set goals together. Football gave you toughness, work ethic & discipline that no doubt served you well in later life. And you met a lot of great people including teammates & coaches. You formed relationships. Some that will last a lifetime.
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14 hours ago, Booch said:
Yup..very hard and I pay for it now...I need a knee replacement...was told that in my mid 30's that I needed it and had the wear and condition of a guy in his 50's.. and also have hip pain from favoring it all those years...lack of range of motion in a shoulder causing sleep issues now...random headaches and general aches and pains and from constant trauma over the years...remember my dad telling me that I'm gonna pay for it later in life...but not heading the warning..lol...its tough to let it go and move on..I still would get out there now if someone would let and if had a chance to do it over again..I would..bizarre as that sounds!
The NCAA doesnt truly care for its players.. trust me on that
Booch, I totally understand what you mean about doing it all over again. When you're in your early 20's you feel indestructible. And being in your 50's is still 30 years away. To a kid that is an entire lifetime.
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8 hours ago, bearpants said:
Great stories @SpeedFlex27 and @Booch... always interesting to hear from people who have been there ... hope flex jr is doing well these days 😊
Yeah, he is, thank you. He is getting married July 7th in Portland, OR to his fiancée that he met in 2011 while playing football at Junior College in California.
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3 hours ago, Booch said:
Mr Flex
I know exactly what you mean as I can say been there done that in terms of what I seen/saw/experienced in the PAC 12
The NCAA is a corrupt i will say organization and ran as on old boys club. It's also about money and exploiting amateur athletes for school profit at any cost of you ask me.
Also like u mentioned some of the banning of medication is ridiculous as the elements in some are so insignificant in amount it gives you no edge whatsoever but since on the list they are very rigid and dont compromise.
Also on the flip I seen and experienced first hand schools encouraging and assisting in the use of PED's for the betterment of the program but if you are caught left on your own to deal with it and effectively screwed...just a victim of the meat grinder that is college football and money
Please Booch, no need to be so formal... That's right there is no compromise. We found that out when my son lost a year of eligibility with SFU because he played TWO years for the Winnipeg Rifles. They said the Rifles were "semi pro" & therefore he had a competitive advantage over other qbs from the US if you can believe that!! Had he played only 1 season he would have kept that year of eligibility. He appealed thru the SFU Athletic Dept & their NCAA liason officer (or whatever she was called) but the appeal was turned down. That's why he wanted nothing to do with the NCAA on his medications. He didn't trust the NCAA.
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23 minutes ago, brett_c_b said:
Maybe I'm a ****, but you put your sons long term health at risk by not deciding his health mattered more than football and picking a treatment option that was better for football than for his health.
I didn't put my son's health at risk. He is an adult. He makes his own decisions. He was also on a scholarship & playing football was the only way to get his degree to which he was a year away from receiving at the time. He wouldn't have been able to afford university along with the cost of the dorms & meals if he hadn't have played. His decision, not mine. Besides, if you've ever played a sport at a high level... walking away is not easy. Ask guys here who have played like Booch how hard that is. I could have got down on my hands & knees but he still would have played. He was 24 at the time. It was his decision to make.
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On 2018-05-20 at 5:52 AM, TBURGESS said:
Manziel and Cato are similar. Athletic, talented, immature, head cases. The most likely outcome isn't good, but there's always a chance that Manziel could mature and become the player that folks thought he could be. If that happens, he'll be back to the NFL in a couple of years.
Cato had mental health issues some say PTSD from where he grew up. Manziel doesn't have that but is bi polar which is treatable. If we said people with PTSD such as soldiers returning from a theatre of war or people who are bi polar are headcases we'd be criticized severely.
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Trump has turned the world against the US. This will not end well for him & the GOP. His trade secretary today actually laughed at Canada's announced trade sanctions against the US saying they are puny. But once you add up the Mexican, ourselves & the EU sanctions the US will be hurt badly. Trump did this to please his rust belt state base.
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6 hours ago, Booch said:
there is a lot of legal over the counter supplements you can take that has substances in it which is banned. When I played we had to look over the substances in things, and a lot of times the products with a "propitiatory blend" listed was reason enough to sometimes stay away as companies use that for different reasons...to hide actual dosage amounts of ingredients said in the product (mainly to snooker the consumer) and as well at times to not reveal some of the gray area stuff that is illegal...or not safe
Booch, when my son played at SFU his final season he developed what could have become a very serious health issue. For obvious reasons, I'm not going to get into what it was as that is personal but it was serious. All I know is because of the NCAA's stupid list of banned substances, his doctor had to go through that list & pick a treatment based on what would be safe from suspension not what was best for his health. As a result, he never felt very well from a health perspective his entire senior year. He had a much better junior year as a player than as a senior. I'm sure not feeling well had a lot to do with it although to his credit he never used that as an excuse. He'd have applied for an exemption from that banned NCAA list for health reasons but the steps it would have taken weren't worth it as the NCAA could have ended up denying his request. Then if he had some of those banned substances in his system he may have been suspended if he was randomly tested which I think would have happened. So, he & his doctor along with the team physician came up with a treatment that wasn't ideal but it was the best that could be done under the circumstances using drugs that weren't banned. I felt that the NCAA put my son's long term health at risk with their holier than thou rules. The NCAA are run by bureaucratic morons putting players health at risk. As soon as he finished playing he went on the meds he should have been on in the first place & felt a lot better.
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Just an aside, anyone see Drew Edwards Top 40 Players? I did & it is a joke. It isn't up on 3 Down Nation which I find interesting. Wait till you see who he has at #2, #20 & at #40. His credibility just flew out the window.
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1 hour ago, Mark F said:
I just read, as an example, currently the Alberta dilbit is piped to Oklahoma. Oklahoma is landlocked. So being landlocked has nothing to do with refining crude.
time sensitive..... same thing applies. If time mattered, then it makes more sense to do it in Alberta.
Also just read..... we send the raw material to the states, they refine it, then send it back to us, and charge us for the final products. how does that make economic sense?
You're right that renewable is the future, and sadly I haven't heard a thing about investing in it, from Trudeau, or Notley, or anyone in Canada.
or encouraging investment in it, in this country. It's just about oil.
shortsighted.
and I admit, I know little about dilbit processing, oil markets, and the rest of it.
But It bugs me that it hasn't even been considered in public discussions.
It was over a decade ago. Here in Alberta. Private oil companies & the provincial government said no.
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2 hours ago, Mark F said:
Not sure these excuses add up.
Ten years ago the debate raged in Alberta about how it wasn't feasible to build upgraders & refineries in Alberta. That it made more economic sense to ship bitumin by pipeline in its raw form to be refined on the Gulf Coast or Chicago as it made more financial sense to do so. No oil company would build a refinery in Alberta because of the huge construction cost & the regulatory hurdles to overcome. Provincial governments in SK & AB didn't want to get involved. Even back then, it was difficult to get a refinery built after the oil companies began closing them down in the early 80's. So 17to85 was right. They weren't & still aren't excuses, it is reality. Looking back, does the oil industry in Alberta wish that they would have built even one new refinery after what has happened since Trudeau was elected PM. I'm sure they do but it's too late now.
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2 hours ago, kelownabomberfan said:
I honestly don't trust her or the Greens. She's at the mercy of her foreign interests that are funding her.
What a gig. Green leader for life.
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37 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:
I hear your point on this. Where would you build it? And would you have Elizabeth May and David Suzuki chaining themselves to fences to block workers from building it? Just curious. It's easy to say "just build it" but you wind up dealing with the same band of lunatics no matter what you do.
Me personally, if we're really interested in "green power", should be looking seriously at nuclear technology. We have so much uranium, let's use it rather than just handing it to the Chinese.
Nuclear energy would really bring out the nutbars. Some of these eco-terrorists would take us back to the pre-Industrial Revolution time period if they could. Indeed, some of these nuts believe in culling the human race to under a billion people worldwide. How do you even hold a conversation or discussion with someone like that? You don't. They would never listen.
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32 minutes ago, Mark F said:
Elizabeth May proposed doing exactly this. A few months ago.
Of course, build it in Alberta, they have the business people, the trades, let them make the money.
It's really stupid that this is never even discussed.
It would take a decade to build a single refinery with the regulatory process. Then there's the interveners & politicians like Horgan who would against it. The eco environmental terrorists who would wreak havoc all backed by millions of American dollars in US organizations like Tides Canada. The same thing that happened with KMX would happen with a refinery. So, Horgan can say it's not the pipeline he objects to but the heavy oil bitumen. However, he's lying. He'd be against a refinery in the Lower Mainland. He would be against anything related to oil in BC.
Game Day: Edmonton @ Winnipeg (Pre-Season) June 1, 2018
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If Nichols stays healthy then the backup qb will see less than 20% playing time. That's how it's always been with MOS. His philosophy is to play the starter a lot.