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Yes, just an opinion. For discussion purposes only.

At the same time, wrestling fans in North America didn't care. Yet fans in Japan knew who the WWE wrestlers were. Like I said, if it wasn't for the hard core wrestling fans here, I'd not know who Kenny Omega & other ROH & NJPW were.

Different eras.

I still say that in pro wrestling until you make it big in WWE you're not really big. There are millions of fans worldwide who don't watch the other promotions.

Football fans in the US don't know our CFL stars. Neither do fans in Europe & China like they know NFL stars. The NFL is the Big Time. The CFL isn't. Lots of wrestling fans don't watch TNA, ROH & New Japan. They only watch the WWE. I know there are rumours that Omega will be coming over to WWE at some time in the future. If he does, he'll probably be a huge star. At his age, it should be sooner rather than later. If it wasn't for some of you guys here, I'd never have heard of Kenny Omega.

Okada/Omega can't be the modern equivalent as not enough people have seen them wrestle. Whereas millions saw Flair & Steamboat in the 80's & 90's have some huge matches. I know some of you guys may hate to read this but the WWE is the true Big Time & until they go there just like AJ Styles did, they won't get their due. Styles is a huge star now thanks to the WWE. Much,much bigger than he was in TNA & New Japan.

This better not be another Voyager... All the wait for really a bad series.

Well, Apodaca looks to be the odd man out.

What a bush league report. The talking heads on Sports Desk or whatever they call it seem to have little or no respect & knowledge of the league. They're as bad as Rogers. Why a network that invests money into the CFL has such joke coverage is beyond me.

Any new Star Trek news?

My condolences on your loss. Really sad to hear, tracker.

That late night revue is something I remember.

TSN 1290 might be the only bidder.

Perhaps Bob Irving would be retired as well if the games were broadcast on 1290.

Vic Rapp was the OC for the Eskimos when Jauch was HC there along with Lemmerman & Wilkinson. I'm sure Jauch was still pretty much hands on as a HC working with them both.

I know the dumb quarterback monicker really irked Brock. Brock had somewhat of an adversarial relationship with the media in the years after that. Even after he totally crushed their criticisms of his cognitive ability in the years after. I think it was unfair & I'd like to know what media member started it. Would have been interesting to compare the type of offenses both played in college as to which one was harder to grasp & more complex. That would put one ahead of the other if say, Knight had a more difficult playbook to learn before coming to the Bombers than Brock did. As well as competition. Which college of the 2 played better teams. Brock played at Jacksonville State while Knight played at the University of Richmond.

Just finished watching Summerslam from 1989. Sadly, half the wrestlers are now dead. Rick Rude wrestled The Ultimate Warrior. Warrior won when there was outside interference from Roddy Piper. Sensational Sherry was hilarious as was Brutus The Barber Beefcake. Miss Elizabeth was part of the match as well standing at ringside for Hogan & Beefcake. Beefcake used garden shears to cut an "unconscious" Sherry's long ponytail after they had won the match. Jessie Ventura was saying things that today he'd be heavily criticized for. He called Jimmy Superfly Snuka who is Samoan, "an animal" who was an "instinctive wrestler" while his white opponent The Million Dollar Man was an "intelligent wrestler". The **** would fly today if a WWE announcer said that with its racist undertone. Back in 1989, no one batted an eye or cared.

If Harry Knight hadn't torn his rotator cuff in 1978, we might be talking about him being a former great Bomber qb instead of Dieter Brock. He struggled at times with his reads & decisions under Bud Riley for 2.5 seasons starting in 1975. Riley had Brock rolling out & sprinting left & right virtually cutting the field in half to make things easier for Dieter. Harry Knight on the other hand seemed to have a better grasp of the offense than Brock did & was more comfortable throwing from the pocket. During the 1977 season, some of the local media & fans began calling Brock a "dumb quarterback" when he struggled & they compared him to Knight. Harry was beginning to have more & more playing time & having success during the 77 season although Brock remained the starter. Going into training camp in 1978, there wasn't a true number one qb for the Bombers as new HC Ray Jauch wanted to make the qb position a competitive situation. At one point it looked like Knight would replace Brock as starting qb until he suffered that rotator cuff injury & was forced to retire. Jauch worked with Brock helping him to become a deadly pocket passer with his rocket arm. It was Ray jauch who spent hours with Brock & really advanced his knowledge of reading & exploiting defenses. Jauch virtually saved Dieter's career & made him not only a Blue Bomber HOF qb but a CFL HOF qb as well. Amazing how one injury would affect two players so much.

Russia flexing its muscles in the Arctic. They don't recognize our claims of a 200 mile territorial limit. Lots of oil, natural gas & other resources at stake as well as our sovereignty as a nation. We should be establishing Arctic bases & investing in icebreakers & nuclear subs. Nothing like a few air & army bases in the high Arctic to show we're serious to the Russians. Somehow, as this is Trudeau... I think this new military spending will be deferred & delayed & as the years go on. Trudeau is all about feeling good. Ploughshares vs guns.

I loved Beaird. What a tough, tough, TOUGH running back!! Always hit the hole hard. Wasn't tackled for losses very often. He was a great inside runner while Washington could run wide with the pitch, toss & sweep.

The chatting took away from the game. If the broadcasters on TSN don't seem to care about the game & it's outcome then it's hard for the viewers to get excited about it either.

The broadcast is just bland. Some big plays & a close game. Maybe as it's pre season??

I remember the 1976 & 77 seasons. We had Jay Washington & Steve Beaird as the two starting running backs. Beaird from Baylor could hold his own with Washington & Brock had 2 great backs to hand off to. Both were threats when they had the football. Our running game sure opened up the passing game. We'd never see that today.