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The Roughriders use white pants on their retro alts -- I know I'm gonna get manure piled on me for this but I think their alts look pretty nice, probably the best you can do with green and white. They look like real throwbacks and I bet they would pop on a telethon broadcast.

oh yeah, I get what they were doing and why, it's just funny how bad both teams look on that sequence -- Edmonton repeatedly gets burned on the boundary corner ... and then Harris figures out one throw too late that he's been made.

I just watched the highlights because I'm not as strong as the rest of you. The sequence where Harris threw to the same corner 4x in a row, with the last one being intercepted in the endzone, was pretty weird. Don't think I've ever seen a QB lock in on a piece of turf like that before.

I think the uniforms are best ranked in tiers: S - anything 70s-80s looking. Royal blue or white jersey, gold pants, gold helmet. This is the way. B - 50s/60s retros. These are plain and unremarkable but at least they look like football uniforms. C - 2022 all-blues. Not a fan of onesie-looking pajama uniforms but they get some points for getting the color right. D - 75th anniversary gold + white pants. Not hideous, but pretty bad. gold is a trim color, not a primary color. E - the pigeon-poop camos. Plus one for fresh outside-the-box thinking. Minus several billion for pure failure. Bury them at the crossroads so they will not haunt us again. F - 75th anniversary gold + blue pants. those satin not-quite-navy blue pants are grotesque. Ryan Dinwiddie is thankful for these uniforms because his dead-duck interceptions were not the ugliest thing on the field in Grey Cup 2007.

here's some midweek fun that everyone can enjoy. Youtube CFL hero Waders27 has uploaded the big Mike Sellers game from 2002. move *****, get out the way! Waders has also uploaded a video of all Dakota Prukop's TDs from 2022 so you can see the nice pair of TD passes he threw during the regular season.

I'm a big nerd for those emulators -- such a trip for those machines from my childhood to rise from the dead! And $9.95 is a really good price for a turnkey Amiga emulator that includes ROMs and games.

Schmitz has an appealing backstory, too: guy looking for a football home and keeping the faith after years and years. Easy guy to root for.

just look at this sick RPO. Hamilton #90 (Oli's old teammate Mason Bennett) chomps hard on the run fake and Collaros is completely clean as he rolls out and hits Woli for the TD. hell, I bet Collaros could have run for the TD if he'd picked up blocks from Schoen and Demski, he had so much field to work with. (edit: actually, I don't know if this was RPO or if it was just a straight up run fake.)

Little column A, little column B when it comes to Buck. On one hand, the Ticats had some real weak links out there and suspect play calling. On the other hand, Buck and Zach recognized those weaknesses fast and went at them without mercy. Like the RPO was lethal a bunch of times. Haven't seen anyone bite on RPO that hard since we had Streveller. And yeah those blind toss plays seemed real high risk and low reward. There's gotta be many many safer ways to get that misdirection. (Note: I know nothing about coaching football)

Yeah, Holm made some great plays on some terrible throws. The best thing was that he wasn't called for PI on any of them ... those throws were PI bait but Holm did not bite. But yeah I agree, if BLM has any deep touch, Holm has a rough game and perhaps the ticats even win. Block of the game: Bryant gets rumbling out ahead of Brady on a sweep and pancakes #3 George Jr. on Hamilton. Think this was in the 3Q. Junior had such a miserable game. The Bombers didn't just exploit or expose him: they bullied him.

witchcraft

intact eyes too.

43 Hamilton should've gotten called for holding or loose ball interference or something on that blocked punt. Had a good hold on Sheehan while he was pursuing the ball..

wasn't that Jackson making that nice kick cover tackle? BLM and White not tuned to the same station.

#3 Hamilton getting no breaks tonight: if he's not getting torched by Collaros, he's getting ragdolled by Bryant.

What's the opposite of throwing your receiver open?

why was Diallo doing the worm on that guy?

why was that whistled? ticats seem to have a legit gripe there.

White with zero luck tonight. He gets a step on his man and BLM misses him. He's covered and BLM throws a near pick to his man and he has to take a penalty to break up.

how long before Shiltz is starting for the cats? real slow whistle on Schoen's catch -- that scrum looked dangerous, esp with Hardrick blasting it.

BLM's deep game looking shaky.

"and you say it was ... this spider ... that had been drinking, sir?"

Forde not a hot dog man ... Dustin will pass on the big hats...

yeah .. that was a terrible ball but it looked like great PI bait. Holm played it clean tho, and that's the best part.

HOLM SWEET HOLM