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love seeing a receiver get interfered with in the endzone ... and make the TD catch anyway.

yup, Zac is Tom Clements out there. Bailey needs to be more like Jeff Boyd tho.

nice burst to get the first! Oli looking like he belongs now that he's getting the blocks.

got a tear in my eyes folks. we're back baby!

James Wilder Jr. is my guy gonna see how "starting RB facing worst team" plays out

I ran the numbers a couple seasons ago and the average CFL team will game roster 10-12 different receivers in the course of a season and the most snakebit teams -- like Calgary in 2019 -- will have to roster 15-16. Receivers get hurt a lot, those little guys are vulnerable out there, and it doesn't take much of a knick to turn a 4.3 burner into a plodder or to screw up their hands. So it seems like having up close knowledge of your first wave of emergency signings is ... prudent. No matter how much you like your top receivers, you're never going to get sixteen games out of all of them. (one of the things I will always remember about Terrance Edwards is how he looked so slim out there compared to everyone else on the field, and because he was our only pro-quality receiver for a long stretch, we'd have him run tough possession routes into the middle and he would just get creamed over and over. Guy kept getting back up and his play never flagged. Big respect. Hope he's okay these days) that Grey Cup was such a complete win. for all people piss and moan about Lapo, he called a masterful game and Hamilton had no answer. Just look at the blocking scheme on Harris' first TD, it was drawn up absolutely perfectly with Bailey pancaking the Hamilton DE and springing 33 all the way to the endzone untouched.

Forbert having a rough rough game. Playing like Brock Ralph out there, touch the puck, fall down.

got shot #1 of Pfizer today. I can feel it working. My 5G microchip game is already way stronger and I have this weird impulse to go mow Bill Gates' lawn (he lives across the lake from me)

that's such a great story! I've always heard good things about him.

Yeah, I miss Wittman too. For me, his all-time call is "ELLETT LETS IT GO, SCORES!" Always liked Slack, it's crazy watching him run and move so well with his bone-on-bone knee. Wonder how he good he could have been with working hinges. re: QBs getting worn down, I was watching the 1986 Western Semi, us vs. BC, and both Huff and DeWalt took a ton of hits that would be RTP today. It was quarterback tee-ball back in those days, QBs getting torpedoed by guys who were 3-4 steps away when the ball was out. Man, that was a heartbreaker of a game ... Bombers discipline was terrible, Willard Reaves got kicked out of the game, penalties and turnovers killed every bit of momentum we had, Jim Zorn got humbled, and when Huff finally got it going in the fourth, we had no RB1 to bash in the tying touchdown from the four. But damn, Huff could hurl the ball all over the field. His rainbow throws to Tuttle and Murph in this game are things of beauty.

Tons of vintage CFL games turning up on youtube, like this one from 1995. I'm not 100% sure but I think it has Milt's first two Bomber TDs in it. It's his second game and the announcers don't mention if he had a touchdown in his first or not. He has a couple funny rookie moments in the game, there's one bit where he and his return partner get all Keystone Kops. Ugh, those navy helmets, what were they thinking? Anyone else getting their CFL fix via old games on Youtube?

dod sez: Fake populist Serial lyer Arrogant Ignorant Hypocrite Bigot/misogynist Conspiracy theorist * is actually a colony of millions of alien worms in a pressurized skin suit, as we see in JCon's gif:

yeah, after Loffler and Hecht, I'm done with safeties that can't cover. All those big leads we blew in 2019... Our switch to Alexander at safety was huge in the Grey Cup run, our passing defence suddenly became fearsome, and we didn't blow any more 21-point leads after we made that change.

well, congrats to Johnny Exume on his new arrival and contract and best of luck to him ... except against the Bombers.

hey speaking of late round picks, what's going on with Johnny Exume? That guy was an assassin on the teams in 2019, loved watching him do his thing.

bummed that Atomic is less around -- there was lots we didn't agree on and I think we had some pretty good battles but I enjoyed talking with them. if you're out there @Atomic I hope things are going well for you and yours.

as I've been stuck in my house, I've been staying sane with this guy's videos. He's a chief aboard a container ship and has timelapse from all over the world as well as lots of cool (to me) inside baseball about container shipping. seeing the milky way rise over the Indian Ocean is astonishing.

I'm still here! mostly lurking, though. with all the uncertainty, the way I'm staying sane is to not think about the CFL until someone actually kicks a ball to start a game and then I"ll be back here in full effect for sure. My wife and I have been thinking about travel plans after covid and we've agreed that a summer trip to the peg for the Fringe Festival and a Blue game or two is going to happen. We had such a great time last time we did that...and seeing the bombers live again, after 2020, will be very special. But not gonna plan or dwell on that until it can be a reality. I hope all are well and safe. go Blue!

yeah, sometimes your only options are Michael Bishop and Jason Boltus. glad to see this is getting posted here. trust me, you do not want to indulge this kind of campaign rhetoric.

holy crap, you guys.

Labour Day Classic (week 13) = genuine LOL.

(reading the politico article about the campaign) Here's my takeaway: somehow Trump's campaign was full of complete Coen-movie nincompoops like Guilifoyle, and had to work with losing thirty three cents of every dollar it raised to the various grifters it employed, and yet it turned out voters like an old Chicago machine. The guy still got more votes than any other candidate in history -- except for his opponent, luckily. **** Trump forever, but I will always be in awe of his capability to get the marks on board. We're just lucky that for every mark he brought in, he mortally pissed off 1.001 other voters... (I mean, seriously Deutsch Bank? ... an unsecured loan for 1/3 of a billion dollars to a guy who went bankrupt operating casinos? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?)

The trouble with ruling by executive order -- as Obama did because of Mitch, and as Trump did because he was too ******* stupid to try to pass legislation -- is that the next executive can undo those things without a lot of effort.* Real change, like fundamental change, will demand legislation. And Mitch is a problem, but it's not just Mitch. The big Dem tent means that there are lots and lots of cautious and centrist Dems in Congress who are really not interested in progressive legislation. You saw that in 2009-2010, when a single pissy senator (**** Lieberman forever) blew up the public option in Obamacare. Much as I would love to see Biden just hammer on Medicare for All and bully the government into making it happen, I'm not holding out a lot of hope. (*The courts famously told Trump he couldn't end DACA .... but not because he lacked the authority to do so, but because federal regulation change has to go through a mandated process and that process was ignored and the court was like "just file the paperwork right and do the right studies to quantify the impact, and then you can change your rules." But doing that kind of work is for chumps, apparently; the Trump gang never came back to it.)

unfortunately the system requires compromise. assuming Russian Mitch keeps the senate majority and the GOP keeps its discipline, no legislation -- even the bandaids necessary to fund the gov't -- passes without his say-so. the next coronavirus relief bill will be interesting. Lots of vulnerable GOP senators coming up in 2022, Biden has some leverage.

such a gorgeous cover song here. Wasn't until I heard this version without all the Queen mega bombast that I realized just how heavy this song is, it's about absolutely crushing despair.