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Nashville sucks. Those jerseys of theirs look like a pee-filled ashtray. Yellow and grey, what colorblind fuckstick signed off on that ******* garbage?
Leafs suck the shitpipe like a Skydome sump pump. Forget the equinox -- Leafs Elimination Day is the real first day of spring. Here's hoping for an early spring this year. Ideally, the Leafs will move to Salt Lake City this offseason. In conclusion, **** the Leafs.
Vegas sucks. Hockey in the desert is stupid. Pack that **** up and move it to Quebec City. Plus Vegas stole the Raiders and now they are stealing the A's. **** Vegas. They are a thief city.
Speaking of thief cities, the Avalanche suck. Stole a Stanley Cup from Quebec City. Je me souviens. I hope their zamboni crashes.
Kings suck because the NHL has been a **** league since Gretzky landed there.
Oilers suck because they were so loaded that they could sell Gretzky to the Kings and still win a Cup two years later. I'm still bitter about 1990. You should never win anything after trading the GOAT. Plus, did you know that Peter Pocklington is from Regina?
Vancouver sucks because their fans are manbabies who riot win or lose. May they be loser rioters this year and every year following.
Dallas sucks. Everything is bigger in Texas. Thus, Dallas sucks bigly.
Boston is an interesting edge case in suckage studies. On one hand, it's a **** city, its harbor is made of sewage, its weather is awful and its population is highly contrary. Rooting for the Bruins will put some black mold on your soul. On the other hand, I really truly 100% appreciate how they devise a new heartbreak for the Leafs every year.
Go Jets (and Bruins)
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7 hours ago, JohnnyAbonny said:
Does anyone else have a holy grail old game you’ve never been able to find a copy of.
I’ve always been after the game here vs Edmonton, on a Monday night after 9/11 and/or an August/1996 game vs Calgary here, 38-36 win. I remember both being pretty wild watching live.I've got my fingers crossed that Calgary Stampeders Classics will upload the September 1983 home game vs. Regina.
That was my very first live game and the day I fell in love with the Bombers. I grew up rural and had never seen 25,000 people in one place before! Not only that, it was Tom Clements' first game as a Bomber.
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On 2024-03-16 at 7:41 PM, rebusrankin said:
I didn't put Mimbs on the list because he played only 2 years with us, granted he did lead the CFL in rushing for both. Wondered about Washington but wasn't sure, glad people mentioned him.
I think there's a second tier of all-time running backs for people like Washington, Mimbs and especially Fred Reid. Will always be a Fast Freddy fan, he and Terrance Edwards were two guys worth watching on the terrible Bombers of 2009-2010 and his big game against the Lions is one of my top ten favorite bomber games.
I think if Chris Garrett hadn't have torn his Achilles, he would've been a great CFL running back. That dude looked complete to me -- power, speed, and moves.
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27 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
I just thought we released him to go to the NFL? Does anyone recall this?
I don't know about who met with who when, but I do know that it was not Salisbury's decision to leave the Bombers. We cut him in late October, early November -- do QBs really catch onto the NFL in October or November? Plus, hard to imagine any CFL coach, much less Kindly Cal, doing their QB1 a solid and releasing them to chase a better opportunity just two weeks before the playoffs.
We lost seven games in a row to end that season, the final two a home-and-home to the 2-14 Rough Riders. The team was dead on the table and needed the crash cart.
20 minutes ago, Noeller said:I think most people believe they won that 88 GC in spite of him, not because of him...
Salisbury played great in the East Semi that year, winning in a snowstorm. It's fair to say that he didn't really light it up in the Grey Cup (tho what QB plays well in 60km/h winds?) but there's no way in hell that DeWalt or Muecke would've even gotten us to the title game. We would've been smoked by the TiCats in the ESF with either of those guys behind center.
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35 minutes ago, Goalie said:
This fullback talk. Man my grampa, rest his soul, would be loving this. I haven’t seen somuch talk about a fullback since i was 3 feet tall.
What’s he smoking? Meth or fentanyl meth cuz weed makes you more chill. Irregardless (word that shouldn’t be used), I think we can both agree it’s not a good look for the argos or the league. Did they guarantee him money? Cuz if I’m Toronto, not sure I’d want this human with an obvious lack of character representing my team. At what point would the cfl deem him an issue.
What are the precedents for players being not just penalized by the league, but outright banned?
- Justin Cox
- Manziel
- Marino
- Nate Holley
- Arland Bruce the younger
Am I missing anyone?
All but Marino were off-field bad guys. Cox and Holley were domestic violence doers, Bruce bet on his own games, and Manziel would not comply with whatever conditions the league imposed on him.
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59 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
The CFL wanted their East-West Grey Cup & they got it. And were ridiculed for it for a decade or more as the subject always came up every year.
The CFL changed its playoff format in the 1986 to allow four teams in from a single division, but it wasn't with a crossover: instead, the two-team division played a two-game total points series and the four-team division played a 1vs4 and 2vs3 semifinal round. This boned the first place finishers, who didn't get a bye.
I think I like the modern crossover rule better. Got to make the regular season meaningful; don't take the bye away from the 1st place team.
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Another recent CFL upload by youtube hero Calgary Stampeders Classics. This one's interesting for historical reasons, it's the mid/late-dynasty Eskimos against an Als team that was stacked with big-money imports including QB Vince Ferragamo. That Als team went 3-13 and it was the start of the 1980s decline of the CFL in Montreal.
Had never seen Ferragamo play before. He threw 7 TD passes vs 25 picks that year.
According to a youtube comment, Chris Walby is in there somewhere playing on the DL for Montreal. Haven't spotted him yet.
And damn that stained and seemy turf is terrible, and the Big Owe is only five years old at this point. What a boondoggle.
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1 hour ago, Pete Catan's Ghost said:
We lasted with the game until the half, but became far more interested in the wonderful world of Disney on another channel.
Fellow Fantasia watcher here.
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15 hours ago, Pete Catan's Ghost said:
22 yr old Richard Nemeth played R Tackle this game at 6'6', 245.....75 lbs. less than Yoshi at the same height.
Our OL was just outstanding in this game -- and Clements matadored everyone who leaked through.
I think we got a little lucky in this game, facing Tim Cowan instead of Roy Dewalt. Cowan couldn't hit the broad side of a barn -- he was playing with a bad elbow.
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I have had lots of creative hobbies over the years but nowadays I mostly play drums and write songs with my hobby band. My band is all gen-x people so we're about rock but some country will creep in now and then. We don't gig for the most part, occasionally we'll play a backyard or a pub but we're mostly about "mom and dad get away from their kids and get loud."
This is my favorite of our recordings -- something my band and I threw together during pandemic lockdown. it's a weird electro jazz thing, totally not what we would usually play live.
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On 2024-03-07 at 10:00 AM, wbbfan said:
Wes lysack was leading the league in tackles here in his last season. We cut him mid season. Tackles are not a success indicator. Not on teams not on D.
When it's a safety who leads the team in tackles, that is definitely an indicator of something...
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Oh man, the field was so bad in some of those old playoff games. Snow-crusted mud.
The turf at CNE stadium must have had brutally bad drainage, some of the rainy games there, skidding players would throw up sheets of water.
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On 2024-03-07 at 1:43 PM, HardCoreBlue said:
Regardless Leaf’s suck.
nothing to add, I just like seeing this here.
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speaking of Ottawa Redblack QBs, I'm curious to see how Tyree Adams does in 2024. He looked like he knew what he was doing in his one game against the Elks last year (although yeah the Elks made a lot of quarterbacks look good last year.)
No picks, moved around well, found the open man downfield. He's a beanpole, though. 6'2" and 185lbs.
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16 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
The game itself hasn't changed that much since 1986. I know Rich was talking about that if they went back 40 years from this game shown it would be 1946 but the same basic stuff is still going on.
yeah, the main changes I see are in the formations -- shotgun was very rare back then and most teams were lining up with two backs. Calgary started using five and six receiver sets in 1990 and it was Hufnagel who pioneered that, according to cfl.ca: https://www.cfl.ca/2007/12/02/offences_can_thank__huff__for_six_pack_air_attack/
It's kind of nice to watch the old game without replay reviews. Official makes the call and the game moves on, no delays.
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3 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
I remember that fumble. What a killer mistake by Sean Kehoe. I think that was his last game as a Blue Bomber.
That game was a heartbreaker. I really wanted to see Hufnagel start in a Grey Cup -- he was a good soldier backup all those years.
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8 hours ago, TrueBlue4ever said:
Kennerd with the game winning point……on a missed 11 yard field goal. After having kicked one wide from 12 yards out earlier in the game.
Kicking was so bad back in the day. Kennard had a couple of seasons of <60% kicking and was always invited back. Bernie Ruoff had a 50% year and a 40% year (!) early in his career but his career survived.
I think it was around the turn of the millennium when the top kickers started regularly hitting 80%.
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Watching games from back in the day, it's astonishing the big hits that a QB was expected to absorb ... especially a guy like Hufnagel who played from the pocket a lot. Like, check this play out, Huffer gets obliterated after he throws a gorgeous deep pass to Tuttle. No penalty, he bounces right back up. Those guys were tough back then.
It's so awesome to have access to these old games, you can really see how the game has changed over the years. It seems like it was around 2004-2005 when the CFL started making rules to try to keep quarterbacks alive.
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oh hell yeah, I've been feasting on old CFL during this long stupid offseason.
Just watched this one last weekend. Edmonton was the first victim of our 1984 championship run. We absolutely demolished them.
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2 hours ago, Brandon said:
My only memory is Tee Martin throwing a perfect dime to Peterson who had his man beat by a large margin only for Kamau to completely whiff on the catch. I then look at Martin with his shoulders dropping and all of the soul escaping his body.
I listened to that game on the radio and I can still hear the Bob Irving call.
"He dropped it. He. Just. Dropped. It."
edit: found the play on youtube:
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edit: it's been said already, no value in piling on further.
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nothing to add, I just like seeing this in print.