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2017-08-04 Hamilton at Edmonton Poor Zach Collaros. Playing behind turnstiles. Football malpractice. C.J. Gable tears it up early. Austin's next move? Abandon run game.

2017-08-03 Calgary at Toronto Argos compete hard! Didn't matter; outcome was inevitable.

Oh, no complaints about how Shultz turns out ... whoever is dressing the big man makes solid choices, and he wears them well ... but he is not pushing the envelope like the other guys.

2017-08-04 Winnipeg at Ottawa (supplemental) In the second half, with challenges exhausted, zebras call great game.

Matty and Milt have been killing it with their suit selections on the halftime show. Damn, those guys look sharp My wife now watches the halftime show just like she watches Coach's Corner ... just to see what people are wearing.

2017-08-04 Winnipeg at Ottawa Julian's smooth! But Feoli-Gudino's a rough name to haiku.

Yeah, I didn't see any chintzy calls against the bombers last night. Saw a couple of missed blatant holds by the RBs but those are the fortunes of war.

The trouble with having multiple challenges is that it means that more marginal pi and contact calls will be turned into big turning-point plays, which is the worst. For me, challenges are about fixing obvious and glaring mistakes rather than making the game turn on chintzy calls. I loved how the onfield officials called the second half of last night's game, once they didn't have to worry about being second guessed by Toronto. Maybe the zebras deserve some credit for knowing how to call an entertaining football game.

I like this because it doesn't penalize a team that's a victimized by a ridiculous bad call ... like than non-catch in BC and last night's PI ... but I don't think it penalizes late-in-the-half desperation fishing expeditions enough. Unless that delay of game also carries a loss of down after the 3 minute warning...

Loved the flow of the game. Especially loved how the standards on pass interference got looser in the second half. There were good defensive plays on both sides that would have been easy challenges a week ago, but which would have just been good D five years ago.

Never heard of the tune, so I tracked it down. Wow, Burton Cummings was a bitter man back in 1970. Wikipedia says the song was about Bowie. Speaking of Bowie, here's Motörhead covering one of his big hits: Motörhead is releasing a whole record of covers in the fall. Will have tunes from the Sex Pistols, the Stones, Priest, Twisted Sister, etc. No Guess Who tho.

this post shouldn't merely be liked, it should be quoted and repeated for emphasis. We are starting three rookies on our field side. Lulay threw 80% of his passes to the field against us. You're damn right those kids are gonna be scrambling. As we get our dbs back from the sickbay, we'll tune the secondary back up and then we can figure out how our kids look when we mix them in with seasoned vets. And in the meantime, Nichols has done a pretty great job of keeping us in these shootout games.

Rich, while this stuff is on your mind ... a couple of versions ago, MBB would track where you were in reading a thread and would automatically take you to the last unseen comment when you clicked on the thread title. Is that something that can be restored? It makes it way easier to follow threads. thanks for all your work!

@TrueBlue4ever, you're killing it man.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking watching him. All the promise in the world, but it's been beaten out of him by repeated injuries. Hate seeing QBs get ruined like that.

Damn, this is some seriously old school poeming.

2017-07-21 Winnipeg at BC (supplemental) Canada moment: Bombers lose, woman in crowd Tells me "I'm sorry."

Not ready to pin our wide side woes on Carmichael ... with Johnson, Wild, and Fogg out and Knox playing steady reps for the first time, we are seriously raw on the field side.

2017-07-21 Winnipeg at BC Leggett, Johnson, and Fogg sidelined by injuries. Field side gaping.

2017-07-20 Edmonton at Hamilton (special guest haiku by Mrs. Johnzo!) Says Gary Peters, Hey ref! Don't pat my peter! Victim blaming flag. (Seriously, did no one see this but us?)

The Reinbold brawl ... check out Lui Passaglia gooning it up around thirty seconds in ...three bomber OL triple team Adam Rita at 0:55 ... some of the best blocking we saw from them during the 1997 season. Damn, I'm glad that Marty York is nowhere near CFL broadcasts anymore.

Just got my tickets. Second row behind the Bombers' bench. Never sat so close before.

I think the Als will slip back to Earth and Ottawa will squeak out a win. Didn't Thigpen's big return day came against the Bombers too? Wasn't that the day when only a restraining order could have saved Glenn from Phil Hunt?

2017-07-15 BC at Hamilton (supplemental) Was that the sound of Kent Austin's championship window slamming shut?

2017-07-15 BC at Hamilton I didn't watch it. Throw Long Bannatyne and Mark said it was garbage.