kelownabomberfan

Gord Miller really developed a complex lately where he thinks he's the smartest guy in the booth. If he'd just stick to doing play by play he'd be fine but he drifts into the colour commentary role too often that it really ruins his broadcasts for me. Cuthbert is the best play by play man in the business and it's not even close. Dunigan is the best colour man but it's mostly cause he's just a football fan having a blast on the air. Suitor is terrible and Duane Forde is trying too hard to be colourful. If he'd go back to just being the boring persona I'd like him a lot more. Forde was making me laugh with the OH HELL NO comments after the Sharknado intro by Rod Plaque.

I also liked that 12 yard hard-fought gain by Addison Richards. He just blew up that Calgary DB. It would be great if we could use him more. I was scared that Richards would just be Hargreaves 2.0 but he seems to be capable of fighting for yards, and his speed wasn't bad either.

I do take the emergence of Darvin in this game as a positive. Maybe just maybe Willy will look to him in that split second when he goes through his reads, instead of just looking for Denmark or Moore.

I don't think there has been an RB this year who hasn't dragged Hurl like a rag doll down the field.

yeah I am hopeful that MOS starts going for two more often. Hopeful. But not expectant.

Oh please, after sitting through the shittiest of shitty games in that stadium losing by one point in a game that came down to the very end that's a step up, especially since they won there last year. We found a new way to lose in McMahon again. Playing better and losing by a point is still a loss. Spoken like someone who hasn't sat through those games in Calgary for nearly a decade. Trust me that was the best game I've seen the team play in Alberta since I've lived here. Yeah it's a sad statement but progress isn't always leaps and bounds. Actually, I've seen lots of games in McMahon. I used to have season tickets and Red and White club spots. There were games where Calgary scored so many TD's that I thought we were trying to kill the horse. Sure, we played better, but we still lost so the demons still very much alive. Ah those were the days. Kerwin Bell, even Dunigan...we always seemed to find a way to lose, or get totally killed, in Calgary. I did enjoy the early 80's though when Calgary really sucked. We'd go in there and just smoke Calgary every time. Dieter would go hog wild.

Time to bring Joe "the Toe" Poplawski out of retirement...

I watched that Parades kick-off five times in a row, and I have to say that the evidence as to whether Stouds actually touched that ball on the six yard line or not is inconclusive. Either way it was a cluster-freak.

According to Brad Wall's ads during the game, they seem pretty proud they aren't NDP anymore. I can see that logic.

Oh did he? I thought it went over his head. Either way it was just plain bone-head. He was snake-bit that entire game.

I blame CR for the head-ache I've had all day today...

I was going to bring that up. So the refs blow it and call the Paredes convert good when it clearly missed, so thankfully it gets taken back by the Command Center on review and now it's 16-15 Bombers. Then on the next play, Paredes kicks it off and the ball goes over Stouds head and is rolling quickly out of the back of the end zone. Instead of just letting it roll out, Stouds picks it up and walks out the back of the end zone, thus conceding a single point, for absolutely no reason whatsoever. If he had just let the ball roll out on its own, no point. I get that LH missing the convert was big, but if Stouds had just let the ball roll out on that kick-off, Calgary wouldn't have gotten a point. It was just stupid. I was yelling at the TV "NO!!!!" when he picked it up two yards from the end line as it was rolling out. My father in law, the Lions fan, who never misses a chance to rub it in, said "Winnipeg coaches need to tell their kick returners about the rules on kick-offs. Clearly that guy doesn't get it." I just sighed. Something I've become very good at over the years. Stouds just committed too many stupid mistakes in that game. Veltung has my vote as the kick returner going forward.

Stoudemire. Yikes. Just brutal.

Veltung starts that game over Stoud and we win it. No doubt in my mind.

I find youtube links will only imbed if I post in old mode, ie - I have to hit that first icon at the very top left hand corner that looks like a grey square. Otherwise it doesn't imbed.

Chamblin live right now on riderville.com....

Buster Rhymes! From the where are they now file: He apparently was the inspiration for rapper Busta Rhymes. Weird eh?

As in Tom Canada?

I still remember how a bunch of fans contributed to paying Lapo's fine via some fund-raising website.

http://www.riderville.com/riderslive so sweet....

yikes 0-4 to start the year for the Riders if the game keeps going this way. When was the last time this happened to the Riders? Man the Riders just keep shooting themselves in the foot with these penalties. Just brutal.

I met his Dad once years ago. He was a funny guy and really well liked. Does that help with the pain at all? Rod Black didn't deserve a happy childhood. Imagine being his kids. Dad still calls you "sticky" because of something you did in your diaper 17 years ago.

I believe the Japanese have something called seppuku you may want to look into...they invented it just for such situations.

Paul Bennett. Got you 4 yards every punt return. Like clock work.