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Are you able to mention any ideas that have been batted about around the office? I'm just sorta curious what potential options there might be...

Bartley Kives‏Verified account @bkives 45s46 seconds ago Wade Miller says Southwest Transitway leg to IGF ought to be finished in July. This will take buses off Chancellor & University. #cbcmb Bartley Kives‏Verified account @bkives 38s38 seconds ago This means cars and buses won't compete for space. Ergo, less congestion before and after games.

That really depends on how much you hate escrow, I think.....

Further to that: @friesensunmedia Tidbit from #Bombers: stadium capacity down 400 or so, due to removal of seats for more concourse standing room. Looks like it is making more room -- fantastic! That was my only even-slightly-negative thing about IGF.....otherwise, that place is a palace!

more Bombers non-field info: @DarrinBauming Football capacity at Investors Group Field drops by 403 due to concourse renovations — new capacity: 32,831. #Bombers I hope this is widening the concourse.....it gets really congested in there at times...

If anyone's going to the Open House, I'd be really curious to know some "potential options" Wade et al might have for alleviating the costs, just as hypotheticals....

Bartley Kives‏Verified account @bkives 5m5 minutes ago Wpg Football Club posted $2.8M profit on football ops in 2017. But $4.5M stadium loan payment led club to withdraw $1.7M fr reserves. #cbcmb

http://www.bluebombers.com/2017/04/05/winnipeg-football-club-posts-operating-profit-2-8-million-2016/ 2.8 million to the good....

or was that just the 50th Anniv since the first movie or something like that maybe....?

I thought Skyfall was the 25th Anniv Bond movie?

A huge, league-altering move that required it's own thread and not be part of the Around The League Offseason Discussion, to be sure....

the Spiderman reboots should be done with now, with Marvel getting the rights back...

@SlavaMalamud The Olympics will happen right before the RUS presidential election. Putin is facing civil unrest at home. He will demand gold. Ovi is going @SlavaMalamud For Putin, an Olympic gold will clinch another presidential term, despite widespread protests. Ovi, a loyal party man, will do his part.

wayyyyyyyyy more......Summer Olys suck for Canadians....

100%, the Euros (Russians, especially) will go. THey don't give two shits about the NHL! Ovechkin is absolutely going, and his owner has already said he supports him completely...

Ovechkin says he's going, and his owner supports him......so I think we'll see a few who go, regardless...

Well, it's South Korea, not North...but still.....the point is more that the NHL desperately wants to be in China in 2022, but not Korea....you can't pick and choose. You want out of Korea? Fine......but you don't get to come back in for China and all the big money waiting for them there...

as has been noted: They DID call him....it went to VM, so they left a message. They then called the agent and told HIM of their plans. When nobody could get a hold of him, he was then texted.

Fantastic work from Taiter....man, I loved Gordon. One of the best possession guys of all time... http://www.bluebombers.com/2017/04/03/robert-gordon-catching-flash/

The owners didn't want it. It disrupts their season and they want all of the focus on their season, not the Olys. The worst case scenario for them was that the World Cup was a bag of crap, which is was, which meant people still really wanted the Olys. Their hope was that people would love the WC so much they would forget about the Olys. Nice try....no dice. Really sucks...Oly hockey is the best hockey we'll ever see.

DTs don't really get sacks, as a general rule.....Doug Brown is arguably the best DT in CFL history, and he didn't get a lot of sacks. He just constantly won battles...

I dunno, on paper, that looks like a pretty solid team. We'll see how the MACK spot shakes down in camp, and what NI Rec ends up being in July, but that looks pretty good to me, for April...

I remember MOS talking last year about how he hates the term "turnover" and the team uses "Take Away", because he feels like turnover undervalues the work of the defense on those defensive plays. Somehow it's always looked at as the offense made a mistake and that's the only reason it happened, rather than giving the defense any credit at all for it, which some would argue is more often the case...

I think the only really good balance is to have distinct Family Zones where there's no booze allowed.

Overall team D was bad this year. Wasn't one individual position holding us back. Injuries all over played a part, but overall team defense from forwards on down was bad.