kelownabomberfan

Whoever takes over, I hope that they instill the FIFO mentality. I realize in a sport where one guy makes more than an entire CFL team payroll that that isn't always that easy, but I don't see how a team of individuals can ever succeed, and that's what I see with the Jets right now, not a lot of team chemistry.

Did you see who Moon's back up was in 1983? LOL

Weird that all it took was Campbell leaving as coach for that team to fall down. Especially with all of that talent still in the stable and such an amazing QB as Moon still at the controls. Not sure what happened there.

That game made me wretch. Was at the gym on a treadmill beside another Jets fan and asked him what he thought of the Sabres game and he just about had a meltdown. It was the final straw.

Moon was playing in that 1983 semi-final game that Winnipeg won, wasn't he? Campbell had left after 1982 and went to the LA Express and then to the Oilers in 1984, where Moon joined him.

yeah, finally. Boy that felt good.

Yup I grew up hating Edmonton more than anything. I had to live through that period where they won 5 straight cups. And we never ever beat them. They always found a way to win, even if it was on sketchy roughing the passer calls on John Helton. That being said, five straight Bomber cups sure would be nice. Only three more to go! ok, then let's just call it luck on that kick-off that the ball bounced at just the right time such that it went high enough so that the returner couldn't bring it down, but low enough where he could still touch it before it went out of bounds. The Bomber bounce lol... Or maybe Sergio just planned it that way lol...

Also - I am glad that the organization handled it this way, and gave Paul the option to resign. It is hard when you hold someone in such high esteem, and I always hate seeing coaches fired mid season, like Mack did to LaPo. I would hope that if the situation ever came where it was time for MOS to leave (argh I hate that I even wrote that) that it would be handled in a similar fashion. Just my two cents.

Huddy should be following him out the door as well. Thanks Paul for all you did for us. Time to move on to the next adventure.

Re-watching the game again, now that I can fully calm down knowing that we win - a lot has been said about the Ti-Cats taking a knee on the kick-off to make it 25-22, but what about the mental error on the previous kickoff after the Demski TD, where the Ti-Cat player tries to bat the ball out of the air (and unsuccessfully hits it as it goes by him) and then it sails through the end zone. If that player had been coached properly by his special teams coach Reinebold (lol) he would have let that ball sail through the end zone untouched, which according to CFL rules, would not have resulted in a rouge. As much as the knee to make it 25-22 was important, it wouldn't have been as big a deal had the Hamilton player not touched the ball on the previous kick-off before it went through the end zone. Mental errors. As I said previously, it's amazing to me how these games always boil down to a few important plays, that either make the difference due to superior human effort or mental error. Finally, due to an over-riding amount of talent and coaching, the Bombers, after being on the short-end of the stick for so long, are finally winning those battles on the important plays that make the difference. You can't tell me if the roles were reversed, that Janarion Grant, sitting back waiting for the kickoff with a strong wind in his face, would have touched the football before it went out of touch in a game that close. He would have been told by the coaches to let it go through the end zone without conceding a point. Because that's what good coaching in that situation would have advised, and Hamilton, in that situation, did not have good coaching. Thankfully, that's what we have. FINALLY. We out-coached Hamilton in every phase of the game. So great to see after so many years of other teams out-coaching us.

Yes, and let's also remember that it prevented a Rider Grey Cup victory, which we all know is worth its weight in gold!

Buck gave McGuire a pretty crappy play list to choose from too. I'd like to see what McGuire can do with all the top horses on the field. If he craps the bed with the best O line and receivers and a full playbook then yeah, time to pull the plug.

So who won?

Yes, in hindsight I regret bashing Paul Friesen for lamenting publicly back in the Mack era that Winnipeg had no Winnipeg-born players. In hindsight, and I find this extremely difficult to say, he may have been right about that....argh...ack...I just threw up in my mouth... Those Tiger-Cars sure were a lot tougher opponents than the Tiger-Cats were in 2019...

Wow we get 5 pre-season games next year...amazing!

This is why players run through walls for this guy. Imagine Belichick or Andy Reid doing this after a Superbowl celebration?

I was at a gym yesterday where some Sun players work out and I asked one of them if MOS Jr. is coming back to the Sun next year and he said that he "hoped so", given what a good player he is. I said that I thought that I heard that MOS Jr. was going to Guelph, and he said that that was in the past, and that MOS Jr. "wasn't exactly an academic guy" lol. At the very least he said he hoped MOS Jr. would come back to the Sun in a coaching capacity, as he seems to have the same gift of motivating players that his dad has. So there's the update.

That was Roadgriller. Named himself after Matt Dunigan's TV show.

Robert Bean's wife was on here for awhile too, until we started trashing him, and then she got pretty nasty.

What was his handle, Nasty Nate? LOL

according to a certain former Winnipeg sports writer I've come to know here in Kelowna, they get some of their best stuff from this site...lol...I still remember when Jabari Arthur was labeled "the Factor" on Our Bombers, (can't even remember why he got that name) and suddenly I'm hearing Mitch on CJOB referring to him as "The Factor". They definitely read this site.

I believe that our QB at the time was Justin Goltz. There were no smart decisions with that guy. He couldn't throw a football to save his life.

Was Morris B "Nate"?

2015 was so bad that I barely remember that season. I do know that things were really looking up on the non-import receivers with the addition of Addison Richards that year. No one could compete with that hair!