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57 minutes ago, blueingreenland said:
Yes, this now has to rank up there as one of the best trades in Bomber history...special kudos to Kyle Walters
And to Pinball. 😉
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X-Cues Café & Lounge at 551 Sargent. Multiple screens. Delicious food. Drinks on tap. Italian coffee. Room for over 150.
Plus I'll be there -- the guy who hasn't posted in a couple years but still lurks almost daily. 😂
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6 of the 10 biggest crowds in Bombers history have been at IGF. Our average IGF attendance is higher than our average Canad Inns Stadium average. Given all the things competing for entertainment dollars, combined with 4K TV and every game being broadcast, I don't see why there's a cause for concern at all.
SSK 23 @ WPG 41 (Sep 12, 1993) Regular Season 35,959
SSK 7 @ WPG 22 (Sep 12, 2015) Regular Season 35,156
TOR 12 @ WPG 31 (Oct 30, 1998) Regular Season 33,810
SSK 13 @ WPG 25 (Sep 08, 2013) Regular Season 33,500
MTL 38 @ WPG 33 (Jun 27, 2013) Regular Season 33,500
OTT 32 @ WPG 45 (Jul 03, 1991) Pre-season 33,421
OTT 21 @ WPG 19 (Jul 02, 1992) Pre-season 33,359
SSK 23 @ WPG 17 (Aug 07, 2014) Regular Season 33,234
SSK 10 @ WPG 17 (Sep 10, 2016) Regular Season 33,234
SSK 30 @ WPG 24 (Sep 07, 2014) Regular Season 33,234Source: https://stats.cfldb.ca/team/winnipeg-blue-bombers/attendance/
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What a pair of sessions: Nichols, Reilly, Ray, Dunnigan, Stegall!
If anyone is looking for something to do downtown on Thursday after these are done, I'd suggest everyone should head down to Wee Johnny's on McDermot Ave. for $4.75 domestics, $5 fancy poutines, $0.75 chicken fingers, live music from 8-11pm, and $3 highballs from 11-midnight. ?
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There are too many posts in this thread over the last day that I wanted to quote and respond specifically to, but I just can't. I don't have that kind of time or energy.
But the overwhelming response in this thread that I've seen has made me so pissed off that I think I need to take a long breather from MBB. I'm so excited for the Bombers turning this season around, and have been posting a lot more of late because of that excitement, but I'm just bummed at humanity right now. ****.
- B-F-F-C, WBBFanWest and blitzmore
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This made me so mad. I've got friends on social media who don't give 2 hoots about football or the Bombers who were all sharing the story today. Even though it's just a few assholes, it looks really bad on Bomber fans and Winnipeg as a whole. Glad the team jumped to do something about it right away, but the whole thing still passes me off.
I love football, and watch a bit of other sports too (less than I used to growing up), but sports fans -- especially drunken ones, and yes, more often (but not always) casual ones -- can be quite obnoxious, douchey, and cruel. They come in all ages and genders, but I inevitably end up sitting next to or in front of some of them nearly every sporting event I go to. It might be less than 1% of the crowd, but I wish it was 0.
Hope this kid ends up getting some fun experiences out of this **** show he was put through. Bullying from other kids at Age 9 is hard enough, but to have to deal with it from a number of so-called adults is despicable.
(And no, I don't think "things don't add up" with this story. Just because it was reported haphazardly with different info coming in, doesn't mean it didn't happen. In fact, that's the news these days. But when I read what happened, it sadly didn't surprise me one bit. It's not just Winnipeg or Bomber "fans", of course -- humans can just be really shitty.)
- iso_55 and Bigblue204
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4 hours ago, Noeller said:
Forget any potential trade with Argos... The Fever is back and killing the TiCats...
Whoops!
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On 2016-09-08 at 8:31 AM, bearpants said:
Completely agree... love the show tonic on CBC R2 in the evenings... and I always comment to people who hate metal about how phenomenally talented the musicians are...
@comedygeek excellent posts... I would have quoted both but they were just too perfect to comment on any further... so many great local/canadian bands just flowing with talent and creativity... which venue do you manage?
Mr Dee pointed you in the right direction. Haha. But yes, it was a weird hole-in-the-wall called The Purple Room -- but bands seemed to love playing there. We're currently trying to turn it into a not-hole-in-the-wall, but in the meantime I run events all over.
Tonic is great. And agreed about metal (used to be a huge metalhead, especially progressive metal, which is filled with talent).
It'll be cool if we see some of these local/national acts get to the point where the CFL feels it can promote some of the good music being made out there with a high-profile gig like the half-time show. Though, as I've said, I totally 100% get why the pick acts that have some non-football-fan appeal.
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7 hours ago, ediger said:
Agreed. Can't count on radio to introduce you to good new music. They're all run by parent companies who's parent company owns a major label or whatever, so you're just going to hear whatever they want to sell. All that payola stuff from the early days of rock'n'roll? That's just how **** works now. DJs (outside of campus radio) don't have any freedom to play what they want.
For good music you gotta hang out in the bars. Not the ones with a bunch of dudes doing the same set of classic rock covers but places like the Windsor or The Handsome Daughter or Times Changed that book bands playing original music. You'll probably see some gawd awful groups, but you'll also see some stuff that's way better than anything on the radio these days.
The amount of great local ROCK music being made in Winnipeg alone right now is ridiculous. And people are going to the shows. In the 20 years or so I've been a part of the local live music scene, I've never seen so much broad (and regular) support for local live music. Running a venue for 2.5 years (and still producing some shows over the last year) has introduced me to so many bands. It's not just being recognized locally, either -- campus radio and CBC and satellite radio are playing the hell out of these bands and artists, and for good reason.
The Daughter, Times, the Good Will, the Windsor (and hopefully my place when we get it up and running again) are filled with really good musicianship and phenomenal singers of every genre.
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7 hours ago, Goalie said:
Can anyone name a known band now who plays a guitar? Outside of country, everything else is auto tuned BS
I like many genres of music, but most of what I listen to has lots of good guitar playing. (Not that a guitar instantly makes music good -- such a strange idea.)
Just sticking with local festivals, some of the acts headlining the last couple years at Winnipeg Folk Festival and Interstellar Rodeo are fairly big names with various versions of rock/folk/blues/roots instrumentation: Ryan Adams, Wilco, Whitehorse, Sam Roberts, The Head and the Heart, The Strumbellas, Jason Isbell, Dan Mangan, Shakey Graves, Bahamas, Hawksley Workman, and Serena Ryder (who's already done a half time show). A local act like Royal Canoe would also be super entertaining, but they definitely aren't big enough for that kind of thing yet, given the purpose of a half time show. Same goes for the Bros. Landreth.
I think Whitehorse would be my pick to keep it Canadian and also put on just a spectacular rock 'n roll show. If you don't know them (Winnipegger Luke Doucet is half of the duo), check them out, and you'll realize there's lots of good music out there doing pretty well without traditional radio support.
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I'll be halfway to Neepawa by kickoff. Have a friend's wedding at 3:30 there that day, so I'll listen to the first half on CJOB, and watch the second half via PVR in my hotel after the wedding's done. I've already told my Bomber fan friends to not text me about the game until Sunday!
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8 hours ago, HardCoreBlue said:
Trying everything you can do within the cap to retain your solid core players (re Dressler, Chick, Shologan, Smith) even it it means shortchanging something else and rebuilding from there makes more sense to me. But I'm not the mastermind here, Jones is. I'm sure it will all work out. Next year by this time Jones will be doing his 'I told you so' speech.
Shologan wasn't a Jones decision, since he last played for the Redblacks.
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10 hours ago, Bigblue204 said:
Ok, but being in a close relationship/basically an employee as compared to being on the pay roll of the Riders makes a difference on how the CFL can handle Rods constant ramblings. If he's not on the rider payroll officially. They can't do jack ****. They sure as hell can't punish a team for something a mouth piece writes when he's not on their payroll. I honestly don't see the CFL having any sort of weight in a conversation about him.
It's got to come from the rider fans. And considering they are eating it up left right and centre. I don't see that happening either.
8 hours ago, Jacquie said:First thing the League should do is stop using stuff written by Pedersen on the CFL website.
5 hours ago, holoman said:If the CFL wanted to make a statement without having it come across as a conspiracy, they would simply no longer publish Pedersens articles
This is what I don't understand... Even if Pedersen isn't officially an employee of the Riders (which I think he is), he's either contracted or a full-on employee of the CFL as one of their columnists. They should've nipped this in the bud weeks ago, but have to do something now.
All the stuff Rider fans are whining about isn't actually ruining the integrity of the league. But taking Rod Pedersen seriously and keeping him as a columnist when he's claiming a conspiracy from the CFL and leading a witch hunt against the Commissioner? That actually does tarnish the integrity of the league.
- The Classic, Esks1975, voodoochylde and 1 other
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5 hours ago, Bomber_fanaddict said:
Yup. This one scares me just as much as the game yesterday did. Riders did enough to win that game if they didn't make dumb coaching decisions and take bad penalties. Clean those up and they can take us. But I think the amped up crowd at IGF will help us win it.
And if the Bombers clean up their mistakes and don't take bad penalties (Bass' roughing the passer penalty was awful timing), they win the LDC in a blowout.
I think the only way the Bombers lose (and they certainly can) is if they do it to themselves. On paper and based on play, they're a much better team than the Riders. But they need to play like it for 60 minutes in front of a crowd that deserves a big win!
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9 hours ago, iso_55 said:
If Pederson is an employee of the Riders then he should be subject to a suspension & fine by the CFL. He's accusing the league of a conspiracy & therefore attacking the integrity of the game. He needs to be slapped down & slapped down hard
Can you believe that this lunatic teaches seminars on social media marketing, and sells packets to poor, gullible folks who think they're getting experienced knowledge but are actually likely getting the stupidest info possible?
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33 minutes ago, Mr Dee said:
ReginaLeader-Post - Sept 5
Cox, who intercepted the pass that was intended for Dressler, repeatedly referred to the penalty as “a bad call.” That likely will earn him a call from the CFL office.
Asked if the official told him why the flag was thrown, Cox replied: “He couldn’t tell me anything because I knew it (wasn’t a penalty). I didn’t touch (Dressler) after five (yards). He just made a bad call.”
I want to ask mr cox if he still wants to stick to that story...
Bombers have the ball on their 45 yard line. This first picture shows first contact about 6 yards later...
Not too bad. That could be let go. ..........Then, a little more....
And....A little more contact
There's more....
And...a grab
The other pictures I took get grainier and grainier but they still show Coz's arm pulling down on Dressler and eventually turning him. Of course, this all happens in nano-seconds, but it clearly shows contact..the actual kind, not the no-contact kind that Cox swears never occurred.
Tweet those out to Cox, Pedersen, and all the other whining Riders fans! Heh.
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52 minutes ago, Sard said:
I believe this was discussed a couple of weeks ago, but the generally accepted definition of the red zone is inside the 20 yard line.
See Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_zone_(gridiron_football))
Not sure why I thought it was 25. Thanks for the correction (hope I remember in the future).
In any case, that's 2 trips into the red zone and another just on the outskirts. (Plus a few more inside the 40.) It still stands that we need to do better across midfield.
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52 minutes ago, Goalie said:
Keep in mind. Suitor drinks the green Kool aid.
Seriously at one point he said if the riders could win this game and win next week they'd be right in the thick of the playoff race in the west. Dudes a fool.
When the riders score a TD Glenn Suitor ejaculates Lots.
I have no solid opinion one way or the other, but it's funny to hear you say that just because all season on Riderfans and Twitter, Rider priders have been complaining about how biased Suitor is against the Riders, and how he never has anything good to say about them.
I think it goes to show that when someone isn't falling all over Saskatchewan as the best team/organization/fans ever in the history of sports, they're automatically anti-Riders.
Makes the whole "conspiracy against us" BS a little unsurprising.
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11 minutes ago, Dragon37 said:
The call was consistent. The one not called PI was hand-fighting pure and simple. On the last PI the defender clutched the arm of Dressler and used it to pull himself through. I agree with Climie on Sportscentre that it was PI. I called it as the play happened. I wasn't sure on one replay but watching it again he the Sask player clearly clutched Dressler's arm. They have called that all year.
As for Jones' comment, he was right not to comment wrong about the fine and wrong in implying that other teams get away with commenting on officiating. They don't. (For example, Bowman was fined for his post-game comments after the game last week).
I didn't get a chance to watch the replay until after I posted what I posted (I watched it live on a phone screen, and at that size and with Suitor/Cuthbert saying it just seemed like basic hand-fighting, I took it as such). Since I have now, I agree.
Also, I think Jones was referring to the roster fines he/the team received when he said he's fined for things other teams aren't. (He's wrong on that, too, of course!)
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20 minutes ago, Ripper said:
I agree. For the record I am not a fan of Rod Pederson either, but he isn't associated with a National tv station so he doesn't have to be objective in the same way that Lawless does/ should.
You still haven't pointed to a legitimate instance where Lawless wasn't objective and was acting like a homer for the Bombers. As I said, I can go link to you many articles where it seemed he was doing the OPPOSITE (and as I said, there are many threads on this forum bemoaning the negativity of some of the media who cover the Bombers).
Just look at the way both media and fans of the team in each city/province respond to the team and you'll see what homerism is. If the Bombers were in the Riders' situation right now, and had lost the Banjo Bowl to go 1-9 on a borderline call at the end of the game, do you think we'd all be talking conspiracy, how the refs and the league and the Commissioner are out to get us, and that we're only losing because of that? No. A large majority of Bomber fans would be calling out the coaches, players, GM, etc. (See: 2012-2015 for recent examples.) Even after extending our winning streak to 5, there's still lots of (mostly valid) criticism of the team on here.
There are some Rider fans, and obviously some Rider media, who understand the game and can look objectively at their team -- whether the team is winning or losing. But there's something about the green and white that takes illogical homerism to another level. (I see it first-hand with many members of my family, as my mom's side are all Rider fans.)
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11 minutes ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:
just curious, which part of the field do you consider the red zone?
It's within the 25, is it not? We were there 3 times (Medlock had field goals of 18, 25, and 29 yards). We should've converted to TDs, and had missed opportunities to do so.
The Bombers were 50% going into the game in red zone production (after being 0/3 today, that number will drop). Cuthbert or Suitor mentioned near the start of the game that the elite teams in the league are all around 70%.
It needs to get better.
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9 minutes ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:
Hard to judge that play, I certainly didn't see it clearly and don't believe TSN took the time to show it from different angles. For people eager to throw away the video replay and challenges they will have to live with the officials original calls both good and bad.
I think the biggest problem with the call is that a similar type of handfighting with the Bombers defending was reviewed and called NOT pass interference earlier in the game. So it's the inconsistency.
Having said that, inconsistent calls have hurt and benefited every single team in this league. A few seasons ago, the Bombers had TWO official apologies in ONE SEASON from the league on reffing mistakes that literally cost us the game. So I feel that it's about time one went our way.
You didn't see Rider fans complaining when it seemed the league bent over backwards to promote the Riders as "Canada's team" and it seemed they more often than not got the benefit of the doubt in late-game close calls. But since -- thanks to Jones and Pedersen -- they've adopted this "conspiracy" idea, it's all they can talk about.
I do think the league needs to really make some improvements on both rules and officiating (especially with consistency of both), but that doesn't mean there's some kind of conspiracy against the Riders, nor does it mean that suddenly because the Riders have had 2 horrible seasons in a row that the league is suddenly the worst sports league in the world. That's such a childish attitude to take, and the team is damn lucky they're opening a new stadium next year, because with how whiny some of the "greatest fans in the CFL" are getting, I think that new facility is the only thing that will keep attendance up for them next year. (And, as we know from experience here in Winnipeg, that honeymoon period wears off pretty fast unless the team starts putting some Ws on the board.)
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I think we ABSOLUTELY need to be better in the red zone (13 FGs in 2 games is not a very healthy stat), but I don't think it really comes down to playcalling for the most part, but execution. They definitely went deep way more than the TD pass -- a few mid-level completions, a few misses for sure (including in the end zone), and a nice grab by Sheppard on a long throw that he was just out of bounds on.
Really, though, we should've scored more when we were close, and it really does come down to execution for me. Sheppard had a catchable drop in the end zone, Dressler had his hands on the ball twice in the end zone, and Harris barely stepped out of bounds on the 10 rather than getting us 1st and goal from the 3. That's just the obvious misses when in scoring range.
I've been debating on Twitter and with my friend via text post-game about what can fix the red zone issues. Is it players? Will Adams and Smith make things better? Would Willy be a better red zone QB than Nichols? In general, I do think that the current roster can right the ship -- Nichols' throws were very accurate all game -- and make the adjustments and change their red zone fortune, since they were very good at taking advantage of good field position in the Edmonton and Hamilton wins.
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1 hour ago, Ripper said:
Not sure if this is hard for some of you to understand but one is a reporter for TSN, a national sports channel and the other is a radio guy for a local radio station. Big difference
Even if that were it (which I don't think is fair -- both should be objective), Gary Lawless might have more Bomber info living in Winnipeg, but he has often/always been very harsh on the Blue Bombers and many of its players/coaches. Just look at old threads on this forum alone to see all the griping about his writing. So to say he's always been a huge Bomber booster isn't even close to factually correct -- and there are dozens and dozens of editorials, stories, and radio archives to prove this fact.
ALSO, his tweet re: Pedersen wasn't a shot at the Riders or pro-Bombers. It was a very funny and accurate response to what would surely be a lot of displeasure coming from Pedersen's Twitter account, based on years of history and especially plenty of evidence since the practice roster fines.
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https://twitter.com/FarhanLaljiTSN/status/1479426961415966721?t=U6joiHXZaurynQ8nVMJVeA&s=19
"I’m told Jackson Jeffcoat has also now agreed to terms on a 1 year deal at 175k with #Bombers. Very good season in 2021 for the @cfl all star. @CFLonTSN"