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You could not pay me enough to sit through an entire NFL game. I would be more likely to sit through a soccer game, if it featured a Team Canada of some sort...

Let's go back to having non-GIF thread for the adults, please...

lol @ using "the membership at Riderfans.com" as an argument in favour of knowledgeable Riders fans.....

The way I look at it, if you care about the long term health of the team, this game has a ton of meaning. Knowing that the US Scouts have finally been doing some good work (questionable the last couple years) and the CIS drafting is making a mark has a lot of meaning to me...

Funny thing, I was just thinking back about 5 years......remember when EVERY spring we'd go "Is this the year Montreal takes a major fall-off??" and they never did. Then *BAM*.....they didn't just blow a tire, but the whole engine has seized up on the side of the highway. That team is a wreck right now...

HYPE HYPE HYPE!!! EXPLOSIONS!! HYPE HYPE HYPE!!!!!!

Cameron is a CFL HOFer (the only punter in there?), a Grey Cup MOC, and universally known as the greatest wind punter of all time. He's worthy.

You beat me to it -- 90% of Sask "fans" don't have a hot clue who anyone in management is. They see the team lose and go "FIRE EVERYONE!!!" and that's about it. Again, it's *mostly* passive fans over there...

I hope they do and we dump off on every play...

Effort will be the biggest thing to look for. Schemes and things will be vanilla and there's bound to be a lack of precision overall, but there's no excuse for lack of effort. Balls out every play..

He'll never throw his players under the bus in public and it's possibly his best trait as a HC.

I'm excited for Bob Irving's pre-game show, a glass of whisky after work, and the MBB chat room....

that's definitely my concern. As soon as I heard him say that he's comparable to Ovechkin and Matthews comparable to Toews, I nearly started to cry...

Chris Greaves was our LG until traded...

I'm at the point now where I want Macho Harris to be an all star for us just so I can laugh for hours on end at the people that frequent this board.

2 things: 1) They had to overpay Penner to try and hit the cap floor and 2) I disagree they're desperate...the right people are in place now, and it's growing properly...

"Look kids, Big Ben!" Seriously tho...we have several round-a-bouts in Calgary, and they're good. You get used to them eventually...

Well, they've created this "If I'm from Sask, I have to wear the green, because everyone does..." but all that will go away with some losing. Make no mistake, it's not a myth that all of this ramped up because of the 2007 GC....

I have the utmost respect for people who had seasons tickets through the Al Ford years and carried on as hardcore fans through Danny Barrett and Roy Shivers, and got rewarded for their loyalty in the good times. The problem is, there are VERY few of those kind of fans. Real fans. No question, the Riders have way more passive "fans" than any other team in the league, and that's how they get so much merch sales. But I've said before, and I'll fight for this forever, that the Bombers have way more hardcore, real fans, who are there through the bad times and good. We just don't have as many passive fans...

As has been said a great many times, Riders "fans" are among the worst bandwagoners. They'll cheer when it's cool to be a fan, but when the team doesn't win, nobody's heard of em.

Tait said in his daily piece that while Richardson is out with a lower body injury, he's not ruled out for Wednesday, so that bodes well for him..

Really sucks for Louie... Hope it's not career threatening.

Gotta rewatch Will Smith's "Ali" next week sometime...