Mark H.
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8 minutes ago, Pepper_Brooks said:
My nephew claims credit for alerting Taman to a player in 2005 or 2006. He submitted a question to a weekly column in either The Sun or Free Press, where Taman answered reader inquiries during the offseason or something like that. He asked if Taman was considering signing a recently suspended NFL running back (I think Ontario Smith based on some googling), to which Taman replied in the negative, not in the plans.
However, a few weeks later, the team signed the running back! Taman never acknowledged or thanked him for the scouting tip! LOL! Sorry if he's told this story in this forum before, I know he still lurks.
Onterrio*
And dare say, there wasn't a whole lot of gratitude to be extended.
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14 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:
I'd like it to work out much better honestly
I could do with another 2019 Grey Cup - leave no doubt from start to finish.
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3 hours ago, Fatty Liver said:
Sure is, wild animals grow to the size their environment supports, on many small islands off the BC coast the deer population stands under 4 feet in height. Interfering with the size of a species can throw the ecological balance off kilter almost as much as introducing an invasive species.
Captive hunting operations create interestingly blurred lines.
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1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:
An 80-year-old man is facing prison time after he spent nearly 10 years trying to create giant sheep hybrids to sell to hunting facilities. https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/montana-man-pleads-guilty-to-creating-giant-hybrid-sheep/
Interesting. This happens regularly with domesticated animals, especially on dairy farms
But with wildlife it's a crime.
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50 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
No, we have a pretty good discusssion going here about QB tandems & playoff crossovers with a bunch of posters. I'd say that ain't lunacy or a failure to communicate.
And nothing wrong with a bit of back and forth - makes people clarify their points.
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Still can't go wrong with a 1919
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15 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
You also can't dismiss that wins matter when talking CFL history that wins matter. BTW, if context matters as you say the Riders offence finished 4th overall that year in points scored. Does that sound historically significant to you? I have said all along that the Barnes/Hufnagel combo was a good one...no doubt about it. However, I just don't see them as a historically significant QB tandem....they won nothing. This league has a long history of very good QB tandems and Barnes/Huffer would be somewhere in the middle of the pack imo. I don't care how weak the East was that year and I'm not sure why it even matters? Every West team played the same amount of games vs the East and each other...the Riders finished 4th and out of the playoffs. Simple as that. If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle is not context it's a hypothetical reach to justify the fact that Speed has a boner for this duo that didn't get it done in the win column.
That's just silly. Of course it's context. A 3 win team was part of the context of that season.
You're also providing context - can we just dismiss it?
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On 2024-03-13 at 7:05 PM, Goalie said:
Gardening is seriously underrated. Good for the soul man.
We have a big community garden. I spend a good chunk of my summer helping out there, especially when picking starts. Potatoes are my domain. It's good physical work, but some days, I'm not so sure about the soul part. 😁
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6 hours ago, GCn20 said:
True. However, at the end of the day none of that happened. They were the 4th place team in the division and didn't make the playoffs. Everything else is just conjecture. Luck of the draw has not been kind to many, many really good QB performances. The gold standard will always be the ability to win when discussing QBs. It's why Marino is an afterthought to Montana etc. etc.
A 3 win team making the playoffs is not just conjecture. You can't just dismiss some of the points Speed made.
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9 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Whatever. The Western Conference was very, very strong in 1981. The Esks finished 14-1-1 for first place, The Bombers went 11-5 & finished second. The Lions 10-6 finishing third & the Riders at 9-7 finished fourth in the West. Combined, the West won 50 regular season games that year & the East just 21.
In 1981, the Montreal Alouettes finished third in the East & made the playoffs with an abysmal 3-13 record. How freaking embarrassing for the CFL was that? The league's credibility was called into question. The Riders won 6 more games than the Als & were fourth in the West yet didn't qualify for the playoffs because there was no crossover. I remember fans & media crying how things needed to change. However, in typical CFL fashion, I remember the league getting right on it by taking another 16 years before it would allow crossovers in the playoffs beginning in 1997.
What happened to the Riders was a travesty. I'm just glad the Bombers never experienced anything close to that back then. Chances are had there been a crossover, the Riders would have been the Eastern representative in the Grey Cup. Who knows, maybe they would have upset the Eskimos as they barely beat the 5-11 Ottawa Rough Riders that year.
But sure, it was the Riders quarterbacking. It was just average. They didn't win.
Context matters.
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I'm a word nerd. Love a good game of scrabble - in person - not on an app. I'm also an avid reader, when my brain isn't fried from too much marking (mostly non-fiction). I enjoy writing when I have time for it - I created a book of poetry and photography for my wife - one Christmas
I teach Grade 11 Canadian History, and I am endlessly interested in any local history.
We are avid bird watchers: geese are already returning, which means everything else is not far behind. We look forward to the tundra swan migration, and all the duck varieties over at Oak Hammock.
Also, spending time with our daughter, occasional fishing or hiking expeditions, and barbeque / camp fire cooking. In spring, summer, or fall...you are likely find me relaxing beside the firepit, at least once a week.
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1 hour ago, HardCoreBlue said:
Man I miss the big man. He’s just enjoying life, fishing away.
Still comes to the south basin.
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Sorry about all the deletions guys. User joined the site 2 hours ago and proceeded to do nothing but post 'covid spam.'
As you were.
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6 hours ago, wbbfan said:
They did, because they hated losing. The defence expected to carry us to wins then. Even though especially in 21 our offence could as well.
That's my point - Osh had teams that hated losing. I'd say the O for both of those teams was very physical as well. In the trenches and blocking downfield.
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4 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Yeah but the time zone keep getting later the further east over the Atlantic into Britain & Europe. London is 8 hours ahead of LA. The time zones will be a big problem.
That'll be great for TV. People can watch games on weekend mornings.
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So, I rarely order steak when we eat out, because it's that much better at home
But Friday night, I took the chance on a 12 oz. medium rare sirloin at Montana's
It was actually quite good
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2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News
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I mean yeah - a Demski doesn't come along very often - so may as well draft a full back.