Super Duper Negatron
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Game aside (our offense is terrible), the atmosphere at the stadium in the third quarter was like nothing I have ever experienced at a Bomber game. What a phenomenal place to watch a football game.
Also, don't a burger in the upper concourse. What a gong show that operation is.
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Totally fine with this. Earlier games, established rivalry's.
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When they talk about players that are "worth the price of admission", Charlie is at the top of that list. It was worth going to a game to watch him, and him alone.
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Not even raw rookies should sound this poorly coached, even in preseason. This is scary bad.
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Why is it ok for fans to sit outside but not the media?
You do a lot of typing at games?
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Well duh??? No parking & the Bombers promoted it so why the surprise by the team & Winnipeg Transit??
Because they are basing their numbers on the data they have, which says Winnipeggers don't take the bus. Period. They were shocked at how well the fans listened to the message of "don't take your car" for once.
My solution? No parking at the u of m, period. Designate a bunch of large, spread out lots, away from campus and run a **** ton of shuttle buses every 5 minutes.
Or, failing that, teach the volunteers how to effectively direct traffic once on campus. Once you got past the bottleneck of idiots, there was open road all the way to the parking lot. Suggests things were not flowing correctly.
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I continue to be baffled by the assumption that a new stadium was going to mean instant sellouts. We are talking about almost 30,000 paid tickets to a preseason game, right? Which is about 6,000 more than normal?
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yup, same here.
On top of that, I hate to say it but maybe they're UNDER moderating over there. 8 of the last 9 threads with replies in them were all created by that Access_Blue guy, who is very clearly a troll.
That guy is what will kill that site for good if they are not careful. Starts too many threads, all trash, and makes any other real content disappear in the noise. They need to do something quickly.
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...I guess since they play in the nation's capital...
Yeah, the all caps thing is dumb.
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how are/were the sales of the 46 suites?
My understanding was that they sold out quickly, and there is a waiting list.
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If you started a team today and called them the Blue Bombers, you would be laughed out of the city. It will grow on people, to the point where nobody will remember what the complaints were all about in the first place (assuming they last long enough for that).
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Oh, and I spent about 45 minutes in the upper deck, and didn't notice the military-grade wind machine the Bombers supposedly installed up there. Much ado about nothing, I am thinking.
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Not sure if this is the right thread for this, but I will post it here anyways. I checked out the stadium yesterday while picking up my season tickets. My overall impressions? The place is fantastic. I can't wait to watch a game there with the place packed with fans. It feels massive and intimate at the same time. I was struck by the shear scale of the structure compared to Canad Inns (as if they were going to finish it last spring!).
There are some warts (shoddy concrete work in spots...perhaps weather related, some laughably bad obstructed seats, etc), but in my opinion those are minor issues on what is overall something we as Bomber fans are blessed to have been given.
Side note: that "cable" railing in the first row of the upper deck that is giving people grief? I sat there (5' 10"), and I will gladly trade anyone for my seats if they don't want them. The cable is not an issue in the slightest. If you sit back and slouch in your chair, it is in your field of view, but no worse than a hockey cage/mask would be. You can either just stare right through it, or literally shift an inch in your chair to see around it.
On the other side of the coin, there is a seat in the corner of the upper deck behind some plexi-glass abomination that has the most hilariously bad view you could imagine. You would need to pay me to sit in it.
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I'm not sure this was a well thought out idea. It certainly was a disservice to a number of outstanding players that were not selected. To try and delineate only 4 individuals was a mistake. Perhaps a better idea might have been to select 4 teams that should have been honoured .
But as always what is done is done and now the organization is left to deal with any negativity that has resulted.
I would guess that the negativity is slim to none.
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Yea, I use better browsers at home, but I don't have much of a choice at work unfortunately - we're not allowed to install software.
Try this: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/internet-explorer/use-compatibility-view#ie=ie-8
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Dumb question: are those replicas? Or smaller versions that are going elsewhere? Because I thought the real ones were supposed to be huge. And it would seem silly to have to change the signs every time the advertisers changed.
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Yes that at least is one big improvement, dropping plays that weren't working and were never going to work. Lapo seemed to have all the characteristics of an extremely stubborn person in terms of not wanting to give up on plays that the defences of the league had seen before, knew were coming in advance, and were not going to work anymore. That 20 yard out to Kito Poblah standing still at the line of scrimmage was a perfect example. Lapo called that play over and over again and Kito got murdered every time. The defence knew it was coming. By the time the ball got to Kito there were 3 DB's and an LB standing there smiling waiting to destroy him. I'm glad that Crowton has looked at the playbook and simplified it. When you get too complicated, guys make mistakes. And QB's and WR's get hurt.
Yeah, Lapo was always assumed if the play didn't work, it was an execution thing.
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Crowton's offense got progressively better last year. You could see him making adjustments as far as dropping plays that weren't working, etc, as he found his groove. Looking forward to see what he can do with a full year of his own offense.
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Haven't watched the episode yet, but good to hear it stays mostly true to the books. This has been one of the best, if not THE best, adaptations of a book to screen I have ever seen. They have done a remarkable job.
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I know I'm going to take heat for this but I would not have chosen Doug Brown.
Agreed.
Wiecek Article
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I read it this morning and thought it was awful. He said the Montreal game was a must win because after that we have a tough schedule, and then proceeded to list essentially every other team in the league as evidence. Basically he said we need to beat Montreal on the road, because they are only team we are capable of beating. Which makes no sense.