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I think that detailed position by position analysis breaks down when it comes to the Riders. They win games they have absolutely no business winning, and that makes them dangerous. Seriously, a 12-6 record from a team with a busted Collaros and the erratic semi-talent Brandon Bridge at QB? And with Canadian depth that looks like the 2013 Bombers? No denying that Chris Jones made some chicken salad in Regina this year. GO CFL

per Trump, it's the synagogue's fault for not having armed security. Because that's America in 2018: if places of worship aren't armed camps, then they're getting what they deserve. Besides, there were good people on both sides.

fair enough ... better to say that it's the first time in a long time we've beat Calgary in a game that mattered to both teams ... last year the Stamps had already wrapped up first and they started Buckley, who was awful.

I am super pumped today because yesterday was the first time we've beaten Calgary in a game that mattered to both teams since the Mike Kelly era. 2017, we beat them in the final week, but they'd already sewn up first and started Andrew Buckley, who was terrible. 2014, we beat them in the Robert Marve snow bowl game, but we'd already been eliminated and they'd already clinched 1st. 2009, we beat them in Week 2. We won an onside kick to start the game, Sidiq Shabbaz beast feasted, and Stefan LeFors threw a couple TD passes.

His first half in the 2016 semifinal against BC was pretty great. Still grumpy we let that one get away...

This is the first time we've beat Calgary in a game that mattered in a long, long time. HH to Hecht -- I groaned when I saw we were playing a replacement safety against BLM and I was anticipating eating some big time pain down the deep middle of the field .. but didn't hear his name called a lot by TSN.

This is beautiful. A print of this would look so good in my living room....

Wow, this is a great highlight reel -- brings back a lot of great memories from my first five years as a bomber fan. Thanks for posting it

Great response! Thanks TUP.

Yup, in Seattle. thanks for offering to answer questions! Here's the main one: how tightly is a match scripted? do the wrestlers know all the moves they're going to do ahead of time or are they improvising sometimes?

So I wasn't really a wrestling fan for the first 46 years of my life, but my wife and I just fell hard for Lucha Underground, we've been binging it on Netflix for the past few weeks. We're just hitting Ultima Lucha Dos now. And I hear from my friends that our local promotion, 3-2-1- Battle, is pretty great so we're gonna check that out. I have a ton of questions about how wrestling works from the inside, if people don't mind me asking 'em here.

Rachid Taha, Algerian rai-rock fusion performer, died yesterday at 59. He was most well-known in North America for this song, which was featured on the Black Hawk Down soundtrack. I saw him live about a decade ago and it was one of the top five shows of my life. Dude and his band tore the place up.

I think punters are getting better at placing their kicks. You look at long kick returns, most of them happen when the kick lands between the hashes. Today, punters kick the ball between the numbers and the sidelines, exactly deep enough for the cover team to arrive just after the ball does. I bet if someone charted it out they'd see that the majority of big punt returns happen when the punter outkicks the coverage and puts it in the middle of the field.

Growing up in the eighties, I thought awesome Canadian slotbacks were a Bomber birthright, from House / Poplawski through Alphin / Wilcox. Man it would be awesome if Petermann and Wolitarsky hit those heights.... Petermann wore 71 in training camp, shoulda kept it, that number looks good on a Canadian receiver.

not posting much now morningbigblue not as fun when team is slumping

In other US news, students at the University of North Carolina have torn down Silent Sam, a Confederate monument, Saddam-style. They are technically vandals, yes, and ideally that's not the way that change happens in a country with the rule of law. But let's check out the context of the statue -- here is an excerpt from the speech dedicating it. It is ******* vile stuff so I'm gonna put it behind a spoiler. So yeah, tear that motherfucker down. I'll chip in for legal fees. (just to bring it home, Brian Walker and Travis Bond played at UNC)

The Manafort jury has reached consensus on all but one of the 18 charges against him, so this could be a Very Big Week for Trump henchmen and the courts.

She was the Queen of Soul, but now she's a goddess. RIP Ms. Franklin.

It's confirmed that Manziel's absence was for concussion protocol: https://canoe.com/sports/football/cfl/alouettes-put-quarterback-johnny-manziel-under-concussion-protocol Pipkin likely to start this week. Fifth starting quarterback in nine games. Good lord.

The Als scored a go-ahead touchdown on the play when he was hit and it looked like he was turning the corner and starting to move the team. From a winning-football-games standpoint, the Als had every reason to leave him in.

So yeah, you've got both of them lined up on the punt team, you've got a lot of different fake options for the opposing STC to think about, and since Bennett appears to have some tackling skills you're not sacrificing any coverage ability with him in there.

You should know that the CFL is totally chill about protests that take place during the nation anthem. I suspect that a lot of American-born CFL players hold the same beliefs as NFL players -- when the police brutality protests were at their height last fall, there were a number of news articles asking the opinion of CFL players and my memory is that they were pretty sympathetic to the protesters...

Welcome Doug! I am Canadian born and live in Seattle now, but my wife is from southern Colorado and I have fallen in with a bunch of folks who've moved up here from ABQ so I've eaten a lot of green chiles and hooo boy nothing I ever ate in Canada prepared me for how goddamn delicious they are. You want some good Southwest / Canadian fusion eating, try green chile poutine -- just use a green chile burrito sauce instead of brown gravy.

Wonder if Briggs will be the other upback ... all kinds of fake possibilities with Briggs and Bennett in there.

Amazing how he turned it around after Austin was replaced .. he looked completely done in the first half of 2017. Wonder if Ernest Jackson will have a similar turnaround if/when he escapes the Als.