bigg jay

Yeah I've had a ton of time to watch these games and have watched quite a bit (definitely some sports I don't usually watch) and that was awesome today.

First Olympic medal in women's pole vault for Canada. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/athletics/womens-pole-vault-final-paris-2024-aug-7-1.7287439

Yeah, the Lions have mentioned that he's expected to be a longer term project so they seem to be willing to wait on him. Even if they cut bait after a couple seasons, other teams will scoop him up to take a look.

Canada sweeps the hammer throw. Camryn Rogers just took the women's gold medal to go along with her world championship.

Mid-season for the team but only a couple weeks for him. He was on their suspended list until recently as he was pursuing a job opportunity so he was already looking at walking away.

I think so. Couldn't see the number but one of our guys got walked to the locker room after that play. I assumed it was Ayers.

Looks like someone finally got that Happy Meal!

And is immediately inserted into the line-up by MOS.

Do it!

I was going to say the same - the layout of the stadium isn't great for fly overs. From my seats in 207, I've only seen them after they have flown past (and if they head west afterwards) - otherwise it's just noise for me.

Made the finals & won gold in men's doubles in 2000 (Canada's only medal in tennis). Daniel Nestor was part of that team & he later lost in the bronze medal game in 2012 (also in men's doubles but with a different partner).

Heard they're trying some new techniques in order to help in this area.

If I can give the team a pep talk for tonight, it'd go something like this:

His contract ends after this season IIRC. He signed a new 2 year deal in 2022 (through the 2024 season) that had some guaranteed money. 3DN shows that only 15% of his contract is guaranteed (or about 25k). https://3downnation.com/2024/05/12/the-cfls-10-highest-paid-linebackers-for-the-2024-season/

Having a solid base of season ticket holders definitely helps.

Some bad luck for a Canadian gymnast who was doing well in the all-round finals and was in 3rd place at the time. https://www.express.co.uk/sport/othersport/1930546/Olympics-2024-gymnastics-Felix-Dolci

It's 8. https://www.cfl.ca/game-rule-ratio

That also might just mean Bailey wouldn't be here in time for this week's game. Demski still talks to him quite a bit (and wants him back here) said Sheed still wants to play but needed a couple days to clear his head.

No other changes according to the CFL transactions page.

I mean he did look like he was taking a little snooze out there... first 10 seconds of this clip shows why they pulled him. https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/video/cfl-blue-bombers-14-argonauts-16-ot~2966932

You're not wrong lol. TSN cut to a shot of his wife in the stands while he was down - not a care in the world that her husband was laid out on the ground, looking like "Oh I've seen this before, he'll be fine, can you pass the fries?"

Yeah it was weird because they let him run a few plays before pulling him but on the initial hit/shove, he was laying face down for a few seconds and was pretty slow to get up.

Yeah I'm not wishing that on anyone, but the hit that put him down & pulled from the game, was nothing special (looked more like he got shoved to the ground than hit) so it got me wondering what might happen if/when he really gets hammered. Given our o-line play and his history, it's something that could very well happen.

Yeah and if it's not done immediately, it's not getting done I guess. Look how long it took for Lucky's deal to get done, and that was a PR deal. It was reported on June 29th that he was expected to sign but a deal wasn't officially announced until July 8th. I'm not too concerned about this getting done.