johnzo

College for me. I was 20 when Nevermind landed, which was the perfect time to hear the music that defines your generation (in pop culture terms, anyway.) a metalhead, right?

100% tho I was more of a Soundgarden guy. Badmotorfinger was a facemelter... but re Nirvana, the late eighties were such a terrible time for popular music. I'll never forget the first time I heard Nevermind at a party and I was like "what, this stuff is popular now?" Everything changed after that.

yeah, the 1989 16-2 Eskies were another team that owned the league and pooped out in the playoffs ... opening the door for the 9-9 Riders to win their second stripe. I think 16-2 makes that team the best regular season team ever. The 87 Bombers -- according to Cal Murphy, the best team he ever coached -- were cruising fat and happy at 12-6 until they inconceivably shat the bed in the eastern final. Of course, everyone remembers the agony of the 2001 Bombers. More recently the Bombers have turned 7-1 (2011) and 5-1 (2014) starts into playoff heartbreak (no-playoff heartbreak in 2014's case) I remember Swaggerville, and how Drew Willy was playing like Drew Brees for us and how quickly that bubble popped when he started getting hurt. Regular season record means nothing when the temp gets low and the stakes get high. I agree with folks here that the 2021 Bombers just seem way more fundamentally sound than those gimmicky / lucky 2011 and 2014 teams and that O'Shea is right to keep them focused on not being too proud to compete .... but they still gotta deliver the goods in the wintertime to get the trophy.

you know, this week, I don't really care who won -- after the dull & dreary first half of the season, I'm just stoked to see a doubleheader of entertaining and competitive football. Hopefully this bodes well for the second half of the season. So it looks like the Riders are the clear #2 team in the west, but BC is dangerous ... next week's game vs. the Bombers is gonna be a slobberknocker. Wish I could go see it but alas next weekend is for other things.

Week 8 Alouettes at Toronto Turnovers and flags-- these Als are not dirty birds, they are sloppy ones.

Montreal defense super soft when there's more than 15 to go. Getting zero pressure, MBT has all the time in the world for someone to come open and he's completed at least three clutch thows to turn longs into first downs or 2nd-and-shorts.

Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be running backs who run backwards while trying to elude pursuit. Chad Simpson used to do this, drove me crazy. But it's okay because MBT converts the second-and-way-long that DJ Foster gifted him. yeah, getting that on hulu down here too.

damn, Adams Jr. has some giddy-up.

jinx.

Argos exploding!

I wonder if having a friendly White House and Justice Department could be of help here? The separation of powers is a pretty big deal so based on my super naive understanding of such things, the executive branch can't help enforce a congressional subpoena, but it would be cool to see Merrick Garland throw Steve Bannon in the pokey.

meanwhile, in Arizona:

The TSN people mentioned at some point that Lapo couldn't get into the mad scientist part of his playbook because his offence simply wasn't on the field long enough. I think the guy needs a long slow grinding offence like his Winnipeg one so he can do all the little setups that unlock the kill shots. When it works, it's great, but too many things have to go perfectly right in order for it to work its best, so it is fragile, and its failure mode looks terrible. We have seen Lapo completely change up his offence ... that snow game against Calgary in 2017, the game where the Fever was the surprise starter. It looked like high school, lots of wishbone and I-formation and option stuff, extremely vanilla. I think Fever threw the ball like ten times that day, and we won (tho largely because Calgary had already locked up their playoff spot and started their canadian backup, who was terrible.) So Lapoisn't completely inflexible. Parachuting a new hope rookie QB in midseason -- totally a Rough Rider move. I hope there's more than a dozen fans in the stands at the end of this season, this is looking like 1988 in Ottawa.

hey, he did the research!

I can't have been the only one thinking of this:

Week 7 Bombers at Antlers (guest poet: James Wilder, Jr) flex flex flex flex flex: flex flex flex flex, flex flex flex! oh ****, did we lose? Bombers at Antlers (regular idiot) Athletic QB lays trap for Blue! Alas, he's no Rocky Butler.

Sees the speedflex name, goes into flexxing frenzzy! flexflexflexflexflexflexflexflex

Biggie blew up Wilder in the first quarter for a loss or a very short gain and did a little bitty flex afterwards that is gif-worthy.

gotta give Bailey some love, ppl here were lumping him in with Nelson as a guy who should be cut or benched but the dude balled tonight.

is it just me or is tackling bad across the whole league this year? istr people saying that no-contact practices would lead to bad tackling...

Biggie clowning Wilder. love 2 see it

remember remember the bombers of November .. 1987. Best team Cal Murphy ever coached, according to the man himself. Laid an egg in the playoffs. so many teams win the Grey Cup after indifferent regular seasons.

the challenge mooted.

450 yards and no TDs. That's such a CFL 2021 stat. there's the Lucky sweep! #lapoball

"start the process of decertifying the election, or whatever the correct legal remedy is." that is some sterling work by trump's attorney there.