kelownabomberfan

Definitely looked like the first period of a team who hasn't played in a long time

Yes it was.

Looks like not much.... Hard to get excited with no fans in the stands.

Nobody sneeze...

Favorite - Joe Poplawski. And Milt of course. Least - have to go with EJ Kuale. What a bum. And Brian Jack.

I was at the first day of training camp for the 2009 season. Mike Kelly. It was actually pretty entertaining. Darrell Hackney had just arrived and he looked like the Michelin Man. He could really toss the football though.

I still have that game on my PVR....

He forgot the 8 sacks and the five Willie Jefferson pass knock downs lol

I don't know why this post made me laugh and cry at the same time....

hey hey yeah I figured as much, the guy who played that character on Air Farce died in 2004. But hey, someone here remembered "Fernwood 2 Night" when Fred Willard passed away so I thought that I would take a shot...

is he from Canmore?

Without a shirt...

Moving tribute today to the Snowbirds by the local First Nations in Kamloops.

Snowbird crash out here in the Okanagan. Very sad. Sounds like one fatality for sure.

I remember Fred Willard best from his show he did with Martin Mull, Fernwood 2 Night.

I agree. I may have gotten my rants confused but I was sure that it was during the 1987 game because it was such a good one, with end to end action, and was therefore used as a platform for Lanky to criticize the haters. Boy I do miss old Don Whitman...

You are partially correct. The CFN was created that year when CTV didn't renew their contract, but CBC did also broadcast some games that year, including the Grey Cup game (CFN also broadcast the game as well, and I believe they were the ones broadcasting into the US for ESPN), with Don Whitman and Ron Lancaster as the broadcasting team for the CBC. I was able to find the "rant" on Youtube, but it wasn't as bad as I thought or remembered. I do remember Lancaster getting in hot water from the media the next day, saying that his commentary marred one of the best Grey Cups ever played. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7gdJKcLakY EDIT - the Lancaster comment is around the 50 minute mark in the above video.

I remember Ron Lancaster going on a rant while doing the color during the 1987 Grey Cup game I believe, on the CBC telecast (back then they simul-broadcast the game on both CTV and CBC). He might have been drunk. He lambasted all the critics of the CFL, in Don Cherry-esque fashion. I remember agreeing with him, but also thinking that it wasn't the time or place for it. Anyone else remember that? Speedflex? He got a lot of flak for it, and I don't think ever did another Grey Cup game again.

That part where Suits hands the play-calling over to Keith, who has no idea what is going on and is probably watching his first CFL game ever, is just the definition of cringe. Keith is just a deer in headlights, understandably, and it's just painful. I really don't know what they were thinking, but I don't think much thinking was going on. "Let's put an Australian who has never watched the CFL before in the booth with Suits and Cuthbert and let the magic just happen". Probably as far as it went. Total trainwreck, that was 100% predictable.

I did too, except for maybe the cringe-worthy Keith Urban in the booth moments in the 3rd quarter. Whoever thought that was a good idea should be fired. Please let it be Rod Black...

So weird that Hamilton didn't follow the Sask game plan, it really was their only chance to stop the Winnipeg offense, or at least limit it in a big way. They were even more arrogant than Calgary, if that's possible....

looked pretty cold though, poor Sara Orlesky looked like she was going to die of hypothermia by the 4th quarter...hope you guys brought along a thermos with some warming juice to make it through...lol. I was pretty worried until the 4th quarter. That bomb to Darvin kind of changed the entire game. In the West Final, the Bombers had the same play going with a bomb to Darvin in the 4th qrt that would have sealed the game for them but Collaros missed him by a yard, would have made a big difference in the ending as it would have been far less dramatic, and been a lot easier on my blood pressure...lol. The big difference between the two games, West Semi and West Final, was that Sask had game-planned for Strevs, and so he was a complete non-factor, whereas Calgary hadn't really done squat and paid dearly (possibly because two weeks earlier Strevs had been injured in their regular season game?). Made it a much closer game for sure as the Bomber weren't getting that 7 - 8 yards on first down from the Strevelation like they were used to in other games.

Re-watched the West Semi this weekend. I could watch that game over and over again, just like the Grey Cup. The Stamps came into that game with such a high amount of arrogance. There was no way they thought they could lose. I honestly think that they made the cardinal error of looking past Winnipeg before the game started as they were so certain that Winnipeg would be a simple speed bump and their real competition was going to be Sask to get to the Cup. The fact that they could actually lose the game didn't start sinking in until the 4th quarter when they suddenly realized that the game was rapidly slipping out of their grasp and panic mode started up. The look on the sidelines between Bo Levi and Dave Dickenson after Bo threw the INT (to Maston I think, or Taylor) was priceless. Just this death stare between them as the two arrogant ****-heads try to process how the Bombers are kicking their asses, and how they never saw it coming. Just so awesome. I actually paused the game at that time and did a CR toast to the Bombers, as that was just so enjoyable.