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42 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
I get what you are saying, but this was no more dangerous than the vast majority of punt returns imo. Was it necessary? Probably not. Was it excessively dangerous situation? Not really.
I kind of disagree there. The level of danger for a headshot or freak injury on a punt return is equal or greater for sure.
I’d see way more opportunities in the soup for someone to grab and twist an ankle or a knee.
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Anyone else irritated by the fact they got Janarion hurt last year by running him up the gut on a gimmick play?
I’m all for using ST weapons as part of the offence, but running a 170lb returner up the middle was very foolish imo.- Stickem and BigBlueFanatic
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2 hours ago, JuranBoldenRules said:
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Not peak Rory Kohlert or that one really good Matt Coates game?
Hey at least Watson could break tackles.
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Thompson reminds me a bit of peak Cory Watson in that highlight vid.
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On another note, with the GC being played in Vancouver, get ready for it you guys.
TSN is going to slobber all over the Lions like nothing we’ve ever seen.- wbbfan, rebusrankin and Bigblue204
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19 hours ago, Pete said:
Bc lost fewer players than we did and did a better job, for now. replacing them.
ie lost Betts > Robertson
Rhymes> Stanback (giving them more balance)
Whitehead .> Mcinnis
Edward -Cooper > Ciante Evans
Baron > Richardson
We were neck and neck with them in the standing most of the year, whether we repeat will depend on our recruiting
How does McInnis replace Whitehead? He was there last year too no?
Stanback doesn’t replace Rhymes, they play different positions.
Ciante Evans is maybe a slight upgrade over Edwards-Cooper, if Evans doesn’t decline due to age.
Can Stove even play? If he can then yeah, that’s an upgrade.
I still don’t see how BC’s off-season does anything to rank them above the Bombers, Montreal or Toronto.
On another note, with the GC being played in Vancouver, get ready for it you guys.
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9 minutes ago, Pete said:
If Grant doesn't sign, maybe we could sign Lucky, while he might not be as good as Grant, he would be another weapon on the offence. Bonus is he would qualify as a designated national.
The bonus would be if we’d use the designated national rule in the first place.
I’d be meh on Lucky. He’s been injured often and age will take a step off, if it hasn’t already
Better off to find a good young returner if Grant doesn’t sign imo.
- rebusrankin, Bigblue204 and Stickem
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22 minutes ago, johnzo said:
I've got my fingers crossed that Calgary Stampeders Classics will upload the September 1983 home game vs. Regina.
That was my very first live game and the day I fell in love with the Bombers. I grew up rural and had never seen 25,000 people in one place before! Not only that, it was Tom Clements' first game as a Bomber.
I’ve heard about that one, it would be cool to see.
I’ve always really wanted to see the 1983 WSF as well, where they ended the Edmonton dynasty. -
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Does anyone else have a holy grail old game you’ve never been able to find a copy of.
I’ve always been after the game here vs Edmonton, on a Monday night after 9/11 and/or an August/1996 game vs Calgary here, 38-36 win. I remember both being pretty wild watching live. -
In retrospect the 2022 game was still the bigger piss off.
23 Montreal was on a roll. Bombers still should have won, but it happens.
22 was lost simply due to completely avoidable mistakes. Legghio’s miss and that bloody stupid call on the Prukop pass.
I can get past the most recent one but 2022 is up there with 2001 and the 08 ESF as the losses I’ll never get over as a fan.
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1 hour ago, Rich said:
One thing that stood out watching this is the broadcaster talks a lot more about formations and how the teams are lining up. We rarely even get broadcasters talking about a player substitution for an injury or a player taking a few plays off.
Either the broadcasters used to be much more knowledgeable about the game, or they've felt they had to really dumb it down over time.
It’s hard to tell given the games have been on the same single network for so long.
I seem to remember CBC talking about the game itself a little more than TSN does, but it could be just rose-coloured glasses. -
11 hours ago, kelownabomberfan said:
Here's what I find amazing - that 11 years after the 1950 Grey Cup telecast, and the technology over 11 years of broadcasting hadn't really advanced. What the heck???
Football broadcasting didn’t really evolve from the 40s until the rise of the AFL in the mid-late 1960’s.
Monday Night Football was a direct answer to the innovative things the AFL were doing, everything took off from there.
Especially in the states, pro football was considered a distant 3rd tier behind baseball and College football right up until the 70s.
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24 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:
I was articling at a CA firm in Calgary at the time and remember saying the exact same thing the next day to my equally clued-out co-workers. So there you go. The owners at that time were blinded by the money, and allowed a totally unfair advantage to the US teams. It was a total betrayal, in my view.
That’s how I see it, and how the adults in my life viewed it at the time too.
It chaps my ass when people mention that 95 team as the greatest of all time.
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22 hours ago, TrueBlue4ever said:
Since you brought it up:
Until the 2019 West Final in Saskatchewan, this game was the best one I ever saw live. Like a true heavyweight fight, trading punches in a game with a rare south wind, but one that was so intense scoring into it was impossible. So many “almost” chances, especially the cross bar preventing the Bombers their lone TD chance. And if video review existed back then the Bombers win. The lone Baltimore TD was a fumble recovery when Woodside’s knee was clearly down before the ball came out, and Pringle fumbled late and the refs called the play down when it wasn’t. Add in the messed up fake field goal (Cameron was spotting the tee and was not in the huddle to hear that the fake was on, so he was the only one not to know what the play was. Westwood would score his only career TD the following year on the same fake call, this time executed perfectly) and this loss stung. Toss in the “illegal shoe” call (which was more galling following the Edmonton playoff debacle two years later where the Esks got away with blatantly cheating in the same fashion) and Cal Murphy said this was the toughest loss he ever had as a coach - one he never got over. The only game I have been physically exhausted after watching, it was that mentally draining to be at, cheering madly but in the end just not quite enough to carry the team to victory.
I was only 7. All I can remember is freezing, the ball hitting the goalpost, and overhearing my Dad on the phone saying “it was bullshit how they kicked those guys out” after the game. I guess referring to the shoe thing?
I also remember complaining at school that it “wasn’t fair that Baltimore didn’t have to play any non-imports” and none of the other grade 2 kids having a clue what I was talking about.- kelownabomberfan and Noeller
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6 hours ago, Super Duper Negatron said:
So am I really the only one that randomly remembers the Grey Cup and feels like someone just kicked me in the junk?
After that game our cat got out and got under the deck, which is about a foot high. She got scared and hid far underneath. I had to army crawl under to get her. In the process I knelt in dogshit. Also tripped and smoked my head on the downspout.
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I was too young but 88 and 89 seems like such a strange year. I’ve seen most of the regular season games and the 2 playoff games/GC.
I don’t recall such a consistently underwhelming team making a run like that until maybe this past years Alouettes.
Like some of the 88 games, the Bombers were SO bad. The games against Sask in particular looked like 2013.
The next year, they almost did it again, while looking even worse in their losses. Then you watch the EF/ESF from both those years and it’s like someone took their controller back from their kid.
(Totally off topic) 1989 was also the only year until ‘22 that the Bombers wore white at home. The whole league did, for about half the regular season games. Very odd visual here.
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Anyone know much about George Una? Hodge has been pumping his tires
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1 hour ago, Jesse said:
Pretty bold claim for someone who's been a back-up for 5 years.
Not to speak for others, but I think by “hoodwink” he meant In terms of where and how he was drafted, not necessarily the best overall player pick.
By that criteria I’d say it’s up there for draft success in recent history.
I wouldn’t say the greatest hoodwink though, Rourke was a second rounder for one.
You could also include Loffler and even Olivera as guys who were drafted later than their provided impact would dictate in hindsight.
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9 hours ago, Jesse said:
I think some of us just appreciate the extra content. The only thing more embarrassing than 3down’s terrible takes is forum posters who don’t even have a blog trying to Uncle Rico from the sidelines, “if only I had a blog, I could write way better than them. I just know it!”
Ironically, you’re one of the forum posters who could write as well or better than 3dn.
You know it’s possible to be critical of something and still appreciate its existence right? -
Some more context: Ottawa was absolutely jobbed by the officials in that 1981 grey cup game.
They called (actually) the worst OPI I’ve ever seen on Tony Gabriel (on a play where Gabriel himself was interfered with twice) while Ottawa was driving near the end, with a less obvious DPI non-call the next time the Rough Riders got the ball.We think the refs are bad now and justifiably ***** about the command centre, but the 80s and 90s officials were a different level of terrible.
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Don’t they still have that 35 year old punter from the Bahamas from last years PR around? Karl Von Schmitz or whatever his name was?