Brandon

I thought Masoli made some good plays but also had help in the 1st quarter with some horse shoes up his ass and some nice plays by Banks. He made at least 2 - 3 wild throws that we would of freaked out if Matt made those same plays. He definitely does not handle pressure well.... he tossed up a few blind balls that could of easily been pick 6's had our guy been a bit closer to the ball.

New York is a great example of how having green space and times square doesn't equate to a bustling lively downtown. I recommend you read about New York in the 80's and the insane crime rate and how they had to re-do the police force and go extremely tough on crime to clean it up to make it what it is today! Maybe Mayor Bowman can learn from history! Not that we have nearly the same kind of crime but it wasn't vanity projects that made New York and the Bronx rich bustling places... I've had family visit different parts of England last year and what's crazy is that parts that used to be nice are now dangerous and no longer safe for tourist to visit. It's bizarre because they have open walkways with no barricades, beautiful architecture , lots of shops , rapid transit etc.... Unfortunately the bad folks don't seem to really care and decide to throw stones at women with exposed faces, yell at people based on their skin color and pretty much drive out anyone that is different. Like in Winnipeg it's not always the setting of the place... it's the clientèle who populate it that determine if the place will thrive. I've had other family visit Greece , Spain, Portugal, France, Italy... all places that had highly dense areas with no green areas at the hearts of their downtowns that required people to walk really far... yet they had no problems filling up their cafes and patios. For myself I recently went to Quebec City for the first time and walked around Old Quebec which during the day was jam packed full of tourists. What was crazy is that it's so tight and has such limited parking that I was forced to walk many blocks just to park a vehicle and to get to where we wanted to go. It was super crazy because since it's on a hill and it's really old so they had pretty much zero devices or rampways for handicap folks. A person in a non motorized wheel chair would either need to have strong arms or would need to take a taxi or get someone to push them.... the nerve of Quebec City for not re doing it to help the elderly and handicap. It is far easier to navigate winnipeg P and M physically then Old Quebec. What was realllly crazy was that I went downtown during the day and night and late night at least 10 different times and not once did I see anyone being harassed for money, no sketchy drugged out people, and definitely no gross overly intoxicated aggressive people. So it's bizarre that a place with no green space, minimal parking, very inconvenient for handicap people to get around, very concrete jungle like.... was thriving. It's almost like the reason it was busy was because it was safe and clean. But I guess the issue is that I like using real world examples to base my opinions while others tend to like to follow theory and dreams based on manipulated numbers by people who have agendas...

I just didn't understand why they didn't keep going short passes when clearly Matt could not hit **** all tonight? Also why we not running a series or two with Streveler when Matt is clearly struggling?

You are overly exaggerating to push your narrative ... their is way more pissing and grossness closer to Portage Place then P & M. Working with many ladies they found the skywalks and portage place area to be much more dangerous then P & M. If you want an instant shot in the arm without really any extra costs it would be to remove/ban all panhandlers and folks who are intoxicated in public. That is the numero uno reason why most people are grossed out and avoid downtown like the plague. Next they can perhaps enforce the laws of dealing drugs along Ellice since nothing has changed in the last 10 years of when I used to work near Portage Place where tonnes of drug deals go on during the day near Webb and Ellice. Unfortunately those two solutions doesn't give Bowman a shiny monument that he can attach his name to reap all glory and it actually might take some balls to anger some people. The next (non cheap/far fetched) solution is to buy out Portage Place and remove that food court ASAP and make the building into anything else (U of W expansion?) .... that place breeds trouble. Those ideas would drastically improve the downtown experience for the general public. Tearing down the barriers aside from making the drive longer will not draw anyone downtown at all... it won't make it a first step either. They could have the most lovely patios and absolute best restaurants sitting at portage and main and most people still will not want to get harassed or pissed on (literally). It's a vanity project for Bowman and his goons have suckered some people in who want to be contrarian to the normal public.

That's tragic with two kids

I have to say his idea is pretty good... I can see it working if that market doesn't get saturated.

It's not pissed soaked or dangerous at all... if anything I find the area to be way more safer then Portage Place. Don't make up lies. All along Portage Ave outside from Main to U of W is piss soaked (I know from my buddy being a security guard and many times having to ask the locals to not piss or masturbate in bus shacks) and up and down the other streets at night is very sketchy. When my wife was a bartender downtown it was almost like a real life night of the living dead with gross people passed out and pissing all around the alleys and garbage bins. The cement wasteland stigma is extremely lame since other downtowns are full of high rise buildings and very little green space and have no problems. Places in Europe have no issues with their downtowns being extremely dense and tight with concrete everywhere. The intersection is such a small reason for the issues of downtown... city would be wiser to focus on the bigger picture instead of trying to focus on such a small problem. So many other things they can tackle which would be cheaper that would immediately give a shot in the arm to downtown....

He seemed very young?

The previous Red Dead was my favorite game and favorite movie/story that I've ever enjoyed. The writing was amazing and the game itself was a tonne of fun.

From my blurry memory I thought that the franchisee who owned most if not all of the Pizza Huts in Winnipeg was behind on his franchise fee payments and all of his locations were taken away from him by the mothership? That was when they decided to close down a few of them. The Pizza Hut on Springfield road does do decent business but I think most of the inside customers are the nearby seniors going for the senior special. I found with Pizza Hut that they have really salty and greasy meats and the cheese is super fatty which is why it always seemed like the tops of the pizza were swimming with pockets of grease. I remember as a kid Pizza Hut used to be the go to place for families complete with those hard plastic dark red cups, lots of pasta, usually table top pacman or boxing arcade machine and the place was always jam packed. They just never moved on from being stuck in the 80's....

Boston Pizza is criminally overpriced for the Pizza... the last time I ordered from Pizza Hut on Springfield I ordered 2 pizzas one with stuffed cheese crust with two toppings and the other a Hawaiian and it ended up being 50 dollars. In comparison at Dominos I can get 2 xls and a 2litre for 25 dollars and the pizza taste better.....

I assume T-Cona? Pizza Hut is way over priced and still very greasy.... you're not missing anything...

I assume the old Asoyama? My co workers rave about the other Ben and Florentine and have said nothing but good stuff.

I'd be curious on the amount of snaps each player has played also. This could be a stat that shows how much time Saskatchewan and BC are on the field because of poor offenses,

I used to eat a lot of Panago in the early 2000's and it was good... I tried eating it again about 5 years ago and the quality was almost as bad as Little Caesars....

Football players move slightly faster then 265 pound boxers.

People have agendas for any random reasons... hell we have inner Morningbigblue agendas (TBURGESS,FLOYD, etc....) For myself I come down Portage and turn left on Main street.... their is no possible way that 10 seconds would be tacked on only. I'm assuming he's cherry picking people coming down Main and turning right on Portage at the green arrow light and using best case scenarios (light traffic, a system that uses the button to activate the walking sign, minimal pedestrians attempting to cross etc...). I'd assume what really would be set up is a 30 second timer to cross... people naturally trying to cross at the last second which would tack on a few more seconds. I'd listen to Bellamy but it doesn't past the common sense test so at this point it's just b-s to me.

I don't understand how offsides cannot be easily called by the command center... it's a penalty that really has no gray area and should be easy to see from above.

Just to stimulate more conversation.... does anyone think that another major factor of the attendance is that Winnipeg is such a multi cultural city that many other cultures just are not into American football?

First of all I don't trust Bellamy at all he has his own agenda. I don't understand how pedestrians crossing in the morning will only add 10 seconds. That number does not add up, 10 seconds to cross 8 lanes of traffic? That seems impossible in my opinion. Also this completely neglects the impact of traffic if it's grid locked and where you can't cross intersections on green lights because traffic is backed up. Looks like fudged numbers to push his agenda.

I think I saw wrestling once in the 90s ... Kevin Nash and Shawn Michaels were on the sidelines and the rest was a blur to me.

I don't see Efron in that role. He has to much of the glazed over pretty boy look. The later Die Hards sucked because it was so over the top that it made it more of a joke... felt like I was watching a XXX or Fast and Furious movie instead of Die Hard. Zero grit at all...

I'd like to look at what the stats are when guys like Masoli or Lulay can complete the same underneath pass over and over again without our defense making any adjustments....