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And thank Flutie for that! At least one Toronto sports club can regularly reward its supporters with a championship every now and then. The Leafs just hurt me again and again... they're like a hot ex-girlfriend.

If he's willing to sign on as a consultant or director at large there's really no underestimating how valuable his contact list could be to a team.

Not my estimate... Neilsen ratings. And your woeful ignorance of the issues the GTA presents the CFL is showing... or was that your zeal for putting down a fanbase that you don't particularly like to give yourself a feeling of superiority? As for calling your comment dickish, I stand by it. You make the same sort of comment virtually every time the Argonauts, Toronto, or me enter into the conversation. So I won't feel as though I'm missing anything by adding you to my block list. Not precisely the sort of thing that I would have wished for on the august occasion of my 1000th post, but there we are. And piggybacking on that, I'd like to say a quick thanks to the ownership and management of MBB for establishing and keeping a good thing going. It is with no small amount of pride that I (as a Morning Big Blue OG) look back on the small role that I played in bringing the events to bear that launched this site and torpedoed that other POS.

Your broken record comment is becoming dickish. Check the TV ratings in southern Ontario, there's several hundred thousand of us.

Yeah, but the Rider losses felt kinda sketchy. We got flagged into oblivion and had poor discipline and couldn't get a bounce. I felt like on our day, we'd prove the better team. Calgary on the other hand, curbstomped us away, and beat us good at home. Our level has gotten closer to theirs these last several weeks, but I harbour no illusions of superiority. Need the Football Gods to smile upon us this Sunday for that.

905'ers... east, west and north. All good football fans (as was likely in evidence on tv).

>implying that you aren't

Clearly, that is the only reason to win a Grey Cup. Spite.

A final note: Argos ticket office said that less than 100 tickets were sold to Saskatchewan postal codes. Yes, there are Rider fans everywhere and certainly we've a fair few here... but the "Riders filled BMO" meme is bullshit.

Funny thing, I remember the lead up to the 100th... Everyone was talking about the underdog Argos but I just couldn't see it. We were on an almighty roll and I knew that the matchups favoured us whichever way you looked at it... and we killed them. This season... I'm not seeing an Argo win as likely. But by God we've got a team that's come together and the offence and defence are clicking... we've an excellent coach who will do his best to put his team in a position to win... and we've 60 minutes of football to play.

We're deserved underdogs. Calgary has been the class of the league and they beat us twice and were full value for the wins. We've come together well and are playing solid football in all 3 phases but we're still prone to mistakes and lacks of discipline. It should be a cut and dried Stampeder win. But we were underdogs in 2004. And we were underdogs in 2012. And we've won in each of our prior 6 trips to the big dance. And nobody has more Cups than us. And nobody is even close in GC winning percentage. I say this not as a brag but as a plain fact: The Toronto Argonaut Football Club wins Grey Cups. Maybe this is the year where the Law of Averages looks our way and the superior team stomps us. Frankly, it ought to happen. But don't be at all surprised either if there's an Argo Bounce and we shock the league again and Ricky wins in a dramatic swan song... Argos Pull Together.

No. In 2004 we were powered by the Pinball Cult of Personality and got hot when it mattered... and in 2012 we were Milo's Montreal Offence 2.0 with Jones' D and got hot when it mattered.

Not saying it to be cruel. Just stating a fact. They're Southern Ontario Boys (SOB's).

Says you. Welcome to the CFL where you can go from the outhouse to the penthouse in 1 season... especially if you already have a good core of players with good attitudes (you do). My team is a perfect exemplar of doing exactly that (Viz: 2004, 2012). ...and maybe 2017 too!

Moon's Eskies were a brick wall that you knew you were going to run into on the way to the GC. Five. Straight. Cups. Nine GC appearances in Ten years. It's mind blowing. In 1982, the Argos lost the GC at home in the driving freezing rain off of lake Ontario (the game that made our Premier decide that we needed a Dome...) against Moon and sent a 9 year old Bluto home with his tears frozen to his face. It was the following year that Moon was bounced in the first round thanks to your Bombers (Moon went south the following year). The Bombers didn't have anything left for the West final and meekly succumbed to BC. In the Grey Cup, it looked again that Toronto would fail to end its record breaking Grey Cup drought (since '52!) but at the half, Obie pulled Condredge Holloway for Joe Barnes and the comeback win happened. The CFL itself was in very good shape back then. It was on both CBC and CTV and had a huge multi million dollar deal with Carling O'Keefe. The Argos would regularly draw 40k.

It's a good sign if the players who know they're returning are campaigning for the option players to stay.

Not trying to be a smartass here, Dave (for a change)... but is feeling like 1981 a good thing or a bad thing? Apples to apples, that'd put you 3 years from a GC and on the verge of a long string of 2nd place finishes, no?

It's finally an organization that gives off a feel of being capable and competent to take an accurate measure of itself and seek to redress its own shortcomings. Your football ops dept and HC should be given reign to do as needed. It will be a pleasure to see them back in Toronto when Popp and Trestman move on.

We'll see about that.

Interesting. The best D he ever played in was usually referred to as BBDB...

As a Leaf fan, I can only pray you're correct.

If hiring a coach who has won a Grey Cup in Winnipeg is some people's sole criterion... good luck getting Mike Riley out of Nebraska

You lot have endured so many shite teams, shite managers, shite coaches and false dawns that could break the most diehard supporters' hearts into pieces. I'm glad for you to see that your team and organization has made such strides... but obviously the best that I can hope for you as long as the Boatmen are still alive is a trip to Ottawa. Here's hoping for a Winnipeg v Toronto Grey Cup. we're 6 and 0 against you guys in the GC

Nothing wrong with that.