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the entire notion of nicknaming a team after an ethnicity or race is just ridiculous and makes no sense. I can't imagine the world where it DID make sense...

see, now there's the thing: If the team was all Inuit players, then they get to call it that.

I just don't understand teams using ethnicities as a nickname..... like, why is that even a thing?

Unfortunately, in Alberta, this is what it takes to do what's right....

So, I'm fortunate to have been gifted a fresh batch of Bombers games on DVD that start in the 07 season. I had forgotten about this situation where Westwood cost us in the season opener against Edmonton, where we lost in OT because he missed a couple relative chip shots. Then the next game, which we won, was the new kicker and of course that's all the announcers are talking about. (Palardy, I think?) And they kept showing Westwood on the sideline....refusing to be anywhere near his teammates and not cheering for the new guy (or the team, in general). It was a really really interesting thing to watch that whole situation unfold...

Calling for a blatantly racist name to be changed is not "being offended". It's "doing the right thing...which should have been done 50 years ago"

Someone online was mentioning how they've been using the nickname of Empire a lot in the past several years so it would be an easy switch to that. Keep the EE thing and not have a ridiculously racist nickname.

Damon Allen by far the most overrated CFL QB ever. There's a reason he wasn't a first ballot HOFer......

Yes. Best pure passer maybe ever. Doug Flutie is the greatest overall QB this league has ever seen, no question, and could do everything. Pass, run, read defenses as well as anyone...he did everything. Ray was as good a passer and d-reader, and possibly even better, but didn't have the run game. Ray was a surgeon. He doesn't get nearly enough respect for being on the Mount Rushmore of CFL QBs.

Ray isn't just better than Calvillo, he's WAY better. Frito was ridiculous. The argument that Calvillo is an all time great because he shredded the Bombers in the 2000s doesn't really mean much to me. He was good, no question, but as with Damon Allen, he was really overrated.

as good as Ricky Ray was, I would say he's one of the most underrated players in league history. People have never given him enough credit. Best pure passer I ever witnessed.

each to their own, for sure... I've got no problem with that.

and I'll go to bat in saying that he, along with Henry Burris, is one of the most overrated players in league history. AC/Burris/Allen don't belong in the same breath as Flutie, Moon, Ray and Dunigan.....IMO.

Not nearly enough love for Doug Brown in this thread. Greatest DT in league history, American or Canadian, and moved to town full time to give back in a number of ways. He's everything you could ask for of a professional athlete in your community.

If you're not watching games live, you're beyond help unfortunately....

'OB for the pre-game, half time and post-game.......every single time.

Isn't Canada like 1-2% positive rate?

Jones and Matthews.......easily the two biggest assholes in the CFL during my time as a fan.

Looks like it's Winnipeg as the hub, if they're able to get rolling in September..........

On my bucket list, is the opportunity to sit with Doug Brown and drink whiskey and hear "off the record" stories.

Nate Davis, Ed Philion, Diamond Ferri, Davis Sanchez.....virtually everyone that ever played for the Riders.....

Doug Brown probably favourite Bomber. Everything that I would want to cheer for. Jamie Stoddard a close second. Least favourite is tough to pick. I kind of want to say Charles Roberts for his role in the 2007 GC debacle (and possibly 2001...)

also brewing this morning, the NHL/NHLPA are close to ratifying an extension to the current CBA which would include the NHL returning to the next two Winter Olympics. (Huzzah!)

good riddance...

If I absolutely HAD to pick someone........this would probably be it. But, also, **** anyone who wasn't a Bomber...