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HH to Sara Orlesky who stopped and talked to us in the beer line at the pre-game tailgate and told us about how weird it was for her to just be attending as a fan.  We love you Sara!!

Mummy vs Swamp Thing?  Batman vs Superman?
Nah. Bombers and Stamps again...
BLM completes passes for 3 first downs....
Paredes 25 yard FG.   Stamps lead 3-0
Zac is almost picked off for 6....
Carey finds gaping hole.....runs for 23 yds...
Stamps convert 2nd and long after penalty...
Paredes 38 yard FG.  6-0
D with too much bending for my comfort....
Zac throws to Schoen for FD, then Olivera for 9.
Oliveria busts down the middle to Stamp 15..
Bailey makes tough catch to set up sneak FD
ZC play actions....has time....and Demski on the goal line...
.....TD!  Welcome back Nic.....
Philpot lays out for BLM bomb....can't hang on....
Carey takes swing pass for good gain....
Paredes bombs 53 yard FG.  9-7 Stamps..
Olivera takes toss for 9.  Running well tonight...
Olivera has huge hole and rumbles for 30.  Even better.
Zac scrambles for 9....to set up sneak FD...
Stamp blitz picked up well.....Zac zips the ball...
...on post pattern to wide open Demski!  TD.
Pass pro looking very good.... Zac looking sharp..
14-9  Yes, TD's are better than field goals.....
Logan with another good kick return for Stamps....
Jefferson deflects pass.....but still caught by Henry..
Willie then takes horse collar penalty to the Blue 29
Sayles stuffs Carey sweep attempt for a -6
Paredes with his 4th FG, already.  14-12 Stamps.
Oliveria runs for 8...but stuffed on 2nd down run....
Grant sweeps to the outside for 20, round the bend...
ZC with first down passes to Woltman and Bailey....
Zac rolls out...and gets terrific catch from Woltman...
Zac throws his next one to Bailey, while falling down...
Zac has 2nd down pass knocked down....wants PI.....
...pleads his case on the sidelines.....MOS shakes his head.
Leggs short FG makes it 17-12 Bombers...
BLM has long pass bounce off receiver's face mask....
Halftime.  Oliveria running hard....Collaros looking sharp
MOS gives Calgary the ball......takes the wind in the 4th..
Stamps kick coverage really good.....tough sledding for Grant..
...with Logan's good returns....losing field position on exchanges...
Oliveria runs for 9....still breaking tackles....
Carey with huge run off of the sweep....down to the Blue 35
BLM dumps to Begelton for 23.....down to the 10.
Carey short TD run.  That drive looked too easy. 
2 point conversion no good.  18-17 Stamps.
ZC pressured....throws high to Bailey who tips it up....and catches it.
Zac to Bailey again.  Good to see Bailey get more involved in this O.
Zac to Demski for 15.....then he uses the play action again.....and throws...
....a perfect strike to Schoen on the corner pattern...in the end zone!
TD.  5 plays, 81 yards.....great response to the Stamps TD drive.....
Carey runs up the middle for first down.  This guy is a hell of a RB...
Carey is stuffed by Wilcotts....who is feeling it...
Bo finds Begelton who should of scored, but falls at the Bomber 8..
Jefferson not much of a factor tonight....Carey barrels in for the TD.
Back and forth, back and forth.....Stamps retake lead  - 25-24
4th Quarter.  This means Bomber time, right?  Leggs with long single..
All tied up.  25-25 Very high level football out there....
Carey runs for FD....so does Bo.....Hitch pass to Begelton to the Blue 30
BLM overthrow on 2nd down.  Paredes with field goal #5.  28-25 Stamps..
Zac avoids two tacklers.....and has Woltman for big 2nd down conversion...
Oliveria still running hard....busts up the middle for 10.  Closing on 100 yards..
Zac has time...looks around and fires a perfect dart to Schoen back of endzone..
TD!! 4 TD passes for ZAC!  Leggs makes it 32-28  Schoen has that ROY look about him..
BLM goes deep...well defended by Houston.  2nd down broken up by Hallet....
3:00 left...2nd down pass to Demski, who fights for huge FD with 1:07 left....
Collaros has been great on a bunch of tough 2nd down situations...
Leggs hits 40 yd FG!  Bombers up now 35-28 with 27 seconds left...
Logan runs kickoff back to the 50....but Stamps tagged with illegal block...
2 short completions by Bo runs out the clock!   Bombers win!  Still unbeaten.
8-0.  This is almost better than gin.  Almost.
 
 
 
 


 

Which is why you're not on tsn

Also worth remembering is while the bombers have looked rusty as hell and with poor offensive game plan and all this and that we just swept a home and away series in back to back weeks. 
 That’s extremely hard to do especially to start the year and especially for a resurgent strong young rbs team who happen to be extremely good in home openers. 
 Add to that our messed up pre season and tc which gave us very little work for our vets and this week only having one practice messed up by weather and things aren’t soo glib. 
 
great teams find ways to win hard close games. That’s what the bombers have done with a mountain of obstacles.  

Ambrosie is just a terrible leader.  Is he trying to win a PR battle or go around the CFLPA bargaining committee?
No wonder he has trouble closing.

The salary cap and Import/Non-import ratio is what separates the smart GMs from the dullards.  I do NOT want it screwed with.

I can say that if the CFL moves to four downs, I'm done.  That's not CFL football and I have no interest in the NFL or the NFL lite leagues.  I suspect that there are a lot more like me than you might be thinking.

Get well soon, Stove!

I would say that moving 2nd base is equivalent to moving the hashmarks.
Going to 4 downs would be like going to 4 outs, or 4 strikes.  If those changes were being proposed for baseball, you can sure as hell expect fans to be up in arms about it.

Jason Vega has chills. 

This may not be a popular opinion here since no one is a young cool beatnik, but the Grove has great burgers too 

The CFL’s partnership with data and technology firm Genius Sports has been billed as a major win for the league, but it could spell the end of Canadian football as we know it.
In the midst of commissioner Randy Ambrosie’s cross-country road trip, Sportsnet reporter Arash Madani told The Rod Pedersen Show that the CFL’s new partner has been vocal about their support for a conversion to four downs.
“I’m told that Genius Sports has really made a push to the league office about four downs and that Randy Ambrosie has let the teams know and let some of the football people know that there is a real push towards four downs from their now partner over at Genius Sports,” Madani said Wednesday.
“Keep that in mind as this kind of unfolds, that some of the reporting that came out of Grey Cup week, it’s getting a real push now from one of the key stakeholders on the business side of that entire operation.”
The same week that the CFL unveiled it’s groundbreaking relationship with Genius, reports emerged that the league would be undergoing a review of its entire operation, including weighing the merits of three versus four downs. The idea was met with swift backlash from fans and commentators, but appears to have powerful supporters.
Genius Sports owns a minority stake in the league’s new commercial arm, CFL Ventures, allowing it to profit off of the revenue it is intended to help create. The high profile firm is set to provide everything from tailored marketing research to revolutionary new broadcast technologies, as well as spear-heading the CFL’s approach to legal sports gambling, but may see the operation as more viable with a more familiar four-down model.
On Tuesday, Ambrosie was asked about the possibility of an Americanized CFL in an appearance in Calgary and avoided answering the question directly.
“I’m constantly struck by the quotes that I read that are attributed to the league. Look, I think there are three fundamental priorities right now and they are this,” he rambled.
“One is to use this bargaining to build a long-term mutually beneficial partnership with the players. That is our number one priority. The second priority is to use this product review process that’s underway to learn and educate ourselves and to work with the ambition of building the fast, funnest, most dynamic game of football on the planet. That’s it. Funnest, fastest, most dynamic game of football on the planet is our ambition. And the third is to grow our fan base.”
“Those are the three priorities. That’s what’s driving our agenda, that’s what’s driving our efforts and those are gonna be the things that we’re gonna be focused on. You have to, for your sanity and for the sake of relationships with all of our key stakeholders, stay away from those specific solutions because they drag you down a rabbit hole and they never lead to anything good.”
The CFL rules committee is set to meet in April, but a monumental shift in how the game is played likely won’t be possible on such a short timeline. Fans should expect this controversy to percolate within league circles for quite some time before a decision is made either way.

If we tossed out every rookiewho struggled hjralahu and Paredes would not have careers...

Ridiculous situation for the Bombers. They follow the CFL program, take it seriously, and now will be punished for their success. Typical CFL!
No matter what happens, I would take Hansen over many imports. 

3dn has an article about Hansen helping ethnic minorities who were being discriminated against escape Ukraine. What a great person but it details why he is on the verge of retiring. 
The Bombers had a 2 year deal with him and the league vetoed it because it was above the salary limit for globals. They are capped at 11k less than rookies. If they sign him to that deal he has to renounce his global status. What a joke. 

@DTonOB

Welcome... if you're ever looking for insightful, unbias analysis that you want to feature on the pre-game show.... you probably won't find it here 😂

Just making my way through the decontamination chamber

Love Browns tweet!

Glad to have him.
Doug Brown's tweet was great.

Well, we know what Chris Jones's plans are for JWJ..........
 

It's crowded backfield in Toronto with Harris, MBT and all his ancestors. 

Realistically this was our best path,Harris will be on the Ring of Honor,will get tons of free food once he's back home, forever loved and with him being his own agent he then must've understood the business side of it and hopefully didn't end things ugly.
 

This is Walters' curse. He's responsible for continuing to build a winner and will have to let players like Harris walk at some point. Can't stop rebuilding. We've had our parades and it's time for another Bomber team to earn another. LFG!