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I'm with Farhan....my optimism changes by the hour. Ha ha. I'm feeling excited, tho, that there is "progress". Things seem to be happening, and as I've said all along, when Wade Miller says something is going to happen, it happens. That man is a mob boss if ever there was one in the CFL...

Sincerely hope you and your loved ones are as safe and healthy as possible, my friend. Here's hoping all of this gets cleared up as soon as possible. I've heard the testing sites (only 3 in the province????) have wait times of 4 hours right now. That is wildly unacceptable, if true. In AB, you book your appointment, show up at your scheduled time, and you're in and out in 15 minutes, tops. I had mine done at the end of May (asymptomatic - came back negative as expected) and it was a rather pleasant experience. Fast and easy.

I don't think any of the talking heads EVER said that.

this story developing VERY quickly....

8 new cases in MB today, 7 of which are Hutterite......

apparently this is just one avenue. The league has a few others they're looking into, so this isn't the end of the line......apparently.

re: Sask's Hub bid......they will never ever win something like that until they get more hotels. That city is SO SMALL and has nowhere for people to stay. They like to think they're the same as Wpg, but they're really a glorified Brandon.

Alberta with another 141 cases today (from just 7800 tests) and decide to send kids back to school, full normal (mostly), this fall. Light a match....this province needs to be burned to the ground and start fresh without a maniac in charge.

and, in the end, Wade Miller gets his way: https://winnipeg.citynews.ca/2020/07/21/winnipeg-to-become-hub-city-for-cfl/

I was just gonna say - can we keep the COVID rambling to general forum? I need a place of respite from the negativity and it'd be nice if we could just keep this to football.

yikes yikes yikes....these are some seriously dangerous case numbers all across Western Canada.

it was okay to whom? To the white people. It certainly wasn't okay to the blacks who were enslaved. That's a really important point. I think what you're trying to say is that it was "socially acceptable" at the time. And that is just disgusting to even think about.

There's no question, based on how people are acting now, COVID will continue to rage well into 2021. I'm not one that believes "livelihoods are as important as lives", but I think there's enough Con governments out there who will bend over backwards to make sure the economy doesn't completely grind to a halt.

Province of MB kicking in 2.5 million for a "bid" to be the hub city for CFL 2020. Expected to be one of 3, including Sask and Ham, who will also bid. Not a lot of details.

also he was a Rider.....so double that.

More specifically, is it related to a funeral in AB? ....As opposed to just "generally travelling to Alberta" for social reasons...

didn't play for the BOmbers and I'm pretty sure he was a dirty player. That's my memory of that era. So, therefore, f*** him.

Kevin Glenn at his best was an extremely good QB. Far better than anything Streveler ever showed. I remember really liking Glenn when he entered the league with Sask and was stoked we got him to be the heir apparent to Khari. By 2007 he was fantastic a legit MOP candidate and should have a GC ring from that year of not for Kevin Eiben (or more appropriately, if not for Charlie fumbling the handoff)......

No word yet on whether or not Iso wrote this rant for Madani or not......... https://3downnation.com/2020/07/17/arash-madani-the-cfls-primary-mission-is-not-to-get-football-off-the-ground-this-year/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Sportsnet’s Arash Madani joined The Rod Pedersen Show on Thursday and, as per usual, didn’t hold back when it came to his takes on the league. In a ferocious rant, he indicated that he feel the CFL has shifted off a legitimate 2020 season and on to strong arming players for years to come. “Because of the tactics they are using by ramming through a new CBA and reducing the salary cap next season, I get the sense that the league is thinking about 2021 and beyond, and their primary mission is not to get football off the ground this year,” he told the Regina based broadcasters. “If they announce tomorrow ‘we want to play in 2020’, how much is needed to make this happen. Its not like you can say lets fly everybody up here and lets go,” Madani continued. “You need to get eight teams relocated into a city. How are you going to run training camps? Where are your meeting rooms? Where are your practice field? Where are you going to feed them? Where are you going to lodge them? Especially with some of your staff still furloughed and not working right now for different teams.” To Madani, the situation is emblematic of a deeper problem in the CFL as an institution. “The owners and leadership folk on CFL teams have long shown they have very little regard for the players, unless they absolutely need them. You saw that with Randy Ambrosie going in front of the house finance committee back in May, with no real dialogue going into it because he didn’t think he needed them,” Madani emphasized “What the CFL is doing right now, is continuing to show their complete disregard for players themselves.” Madani believes it has been a failure on the part of league leaders to protect players. “What has the front office done to help players out, to be committed to try and get them CERB or any other government program? The answer is nothing,” he said angrily. “If you don’t believe it, here we are in July, the pandemic got off the ground in March, four months have transpired and what has Randy Ambrosie done for the players? What has Wade Miller, Scott Mitchell, Rick LeLacheur, and on and on you go with the team presidents, what have they done for the players to ensure they’re taken care of? From my seat, the answer is nothing.” Players have been vocal that the current offer on the table, a 33% pro-rated contract with no monetary guarantees for a six-game season, is woefully insufficient. The latest reports are that the two side are not even in the same ballpark. Madani sees why. “What is an American player coming up here for? I thought Tony Washington’s tweet was bang on, if you come up here you are going to walk away with $9,000 on a non-guaranteed contract,” he said. “I just don’t see it happening” Madani believes a fundamental shift in strategy is needed to ensure the league’s recovery. “I actually believe that the CFL right now, if they pull the plug on 2020, will have given themselves a four-month head start, a larger runway to focus on 2021 and to get their business together,” explains Madani. “To try and ram a CBA down the players’ throats, its dirty business and its wrong business. They now have opportunity to focus on long term stability and really get the health of the league in order. The focus should be on next season, not this.” That would mean no 2020 CFL season, something that Madani doesn’t see happening anyway. “At this stage logistically, I just don’t see how they are going to get it off the ground. There are people who will tell you quietly that this is not the right thing to do from a logistical and safety standpoint.” The league and the players have set a deadline of July 23rd to reach an agreement.

I feel pretty comfortable in my gym SO FAR.....but everything I'm doing is solo. We've got pretty good distancing and hand sanitizer stations every 10 feet. I bought in to the "best way to combat a virus is with a healthy body" mentality, and so far so good. But I also wouldn't be surprised to see "potential hotspots" get shut down again...