Brandon

Are you trying to tell us that "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"  and that in happens in real life....  Noooooooooooooo waaay!  
 
 

No thanks,  I'd rather not drive out of my way to a Wendys only to find out that the prices are hiked up because they are busier.     I'm pretty sure during the quiet periods that Wendys won't be knocking down the prices of the food items by a large %. 

Or @Noeller's favorite:
 

No thanks,  I'd rather not drive out of my way to a Wendys only to find out that the prices are hiked up because they are busier.     I'm pretty sure during the quiet periods that Wendys won't be knocking down the prices of the food items by a large %. 

No thanks,  I'd rather not drive out of my way to a Wendys only to find out that the prices are hiked up because they are busier.     I'm pretty sure during the quiet periods that Wendys won't be knocking down the prices of the food items by a large %. 

No thanks,  I'd rather not drive out of my way to a Wendys only to find out that the prices are hiked up because they are busier.     I'm pretty sure during the quiet periods that Wendys won't be knocking down the prices of the food items by a large %. 

This is my point,  we can't call the guy a scumbag criminal when so little of the facts is known.   Same goes with the club.      Unless he has admitted  guilt.   
 

Significantly worse and this is why the City/Province is trying to force people to come back to work downtown.   I can only speak looking in from an IT perspective,  but with everything moving to the cloud and without the need of having IT equipment on site and the ability to staff your positions across the country (or world).  The need for a physical building decreases every day.  
On one project that I was involved with they moved 100 staff out of a floor in a building downtown to work from home and the cost savings was approximately 5 million per year.   It is so much cheaper for a company to buy desk/chair and pay for everyones internet then for them to maintain a building and the infrastructure.  
It needs a radical change,  they need to make downtown an area that people want to hang out or preferably live in.    They attempted to revive downtown in the 80's with Portage Place failed and retail now is even further dead so retail is out of the question.  
My radical idea to revitalize downtown is the following: 
1 - Zero tolerance on public intoxication/drugs and pan handling harassment.  It's absolutely critical that they crack down on this before anything else.   Ideally the Federal Gov't/Provincial Gov't would update the justice system so rather then sending people to jail they would be forced to get clean at a rehab facility.   Build a rehab facility out of town (NIMBY naturally) where people can get clean and healthy.   I just came back from Mexico and when we went to the downtown for tourists I saw plenty of security and was approached by zero drunk/methed up people.  I felt significantly more safe despite seeing a guy with an AK-47 protecting the jewelry store.  
2 - Close down motor traffic on Broadway from Donald to Osborne from May - September or maybe even year round.  Make this our version of Sparks St in Ottawa.   Have street festivals and restaurants with extended patios in the summer.   The city has loads of parking nearby and make this a place that people to visit and walk up and down the strip.  
3 - All 3 levels of the Gov't work with buying Portage Place and making this a University of Winnipeg International students destination.  From what I understand Portage place was designed so that condos/appartments can be build on top of each end.   The U of M have a large amount of international students coming in with huge money behind them crowding into houses and attending schools.   Get these students to come downtown with their big money and live in the housing that will be build atop Portage Place.  It would be in close proximity to the current U of W and the injection of cash from  young 18 - 30 year olds living downtown would be a huge boom that would help fill out all those empty buildings along Portage.  
4 - Launch a new "touch the universe" / science museum / childrens / agriculture Manitoba museum.    The current childrens museum we have is absolutely garbage.  Over the last five years we visited a number of other  childrens museums in the States that were heavily packed full of tourists and families.   It wasn't like they were doing anything insanely expensive but had really fun interactive activities and educational.   5 or so years ago I was fortunate to attend the Opaskwayak Indigenous days and they had really neat little activities such as learning how to bead ,  cook,  hunt, dance ,  etc...    It's a huge miss opportunity to do something similar in town with fun interactive stations.  They could have a section on farming with large interactive exhibits which many other childrens museum already have.    Etc...    A place to bring families to Winnipeg or into downtown for the local citizens. 
But alas all of that cost money and Winnipeg is broke and is extremely poor so it would require the Feds to pump in huge dollars.   
Instead the city will be to scared to fight the homeless/drunk/panhandling epidemic and will suggest cheap stupid ideas such as opening Portage and Main and will continue to stall on making any drastic changes and downtown will continue to rot.  
 
For fun I include a few pics of Sparks street to show what it is like: 


 

My goodness we have a new winner....

Very true!    
PTSD is a very real thing and it's not like men are immune to it.  

Very true!    
PTSD is a very real thing and it's not like men are immune to it.  

Very true!    
PTSD is a very real thing and it's not like men are immune to it.  

How does Toronto go from MBT to an even crazier guy?  

How does Toronto go from MBT to an even crazier guy?  

For the Bombers, signing some of these guys was a very Bighill to climb 😉

Terrible news
I would of thought that retired NFL players had some kind of enhanced medical coverage?  If not then they should.  

Terrible news
I would of thought that retired NFL players had some kind of enhanced medical coverage?  If not then they should.  

Wow so students make less % then the amount of comped tickets that are given out.  That's a bad thing.  Wait until you find out that the Gov't also pays for a large amount of the tickets in which they give away which are not counted in the "comped tickets".   
Older article -  https://winnipegsun.com/2015/06/06/human-rights-museum-attendance-dwarfed-by-zoo-other-museums 
Pre Covid -  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canadian-museum-human-rights-senior-staff-1.5469043
Those poor attendances also don't factor in the novelty of visiting a new building... the initial rush of interested people.  
Post Pandemic the attendance has further dropped.   I'm not even going to get into the corruption and other issues the place has,  but it has been  a huge miss on bringing in tourists.    
So once again... I stand by what I say because I know I am right.  Numbers do not lie.    

For the stats?  Stats Canada and if you don't feel like going through the massive stat sheets that they have then you can google search.     Seriously you've never heard Winnipeg being called Murder Capital of Canada before?   It's always a joke when the numbers come out between Winnipeg and Edmonton exchanging the title. 
 

I've always assumed that lots of players had back room deals with local companies...  I.E.  Take a smaller salary on the books with the club.... meanwhile Adam Bighill gets paid an additional large amount of money from his "part time" job in the city.  

Are we really arguing that Winnipeg isn’t a dump? I’ve travelled all over North America … I think in terms of individual cities, I’ve been to Phoenix, San Diego, Anaheim, Richmond, Philadelphia, Trenton, Baltimore, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Buffalo, New York City, Orlando, Tampa, Regina, Minneapolis, Grand Forks and Fargo in the past 5-ish years … the only places that are as much of a dump as Winnipeg are Baltimore and Edmonton. Sure, obviously some places were a quick visit. Some places you can chalk the experience up to oblivious innocence where I probably didn’t know any better. But for the most part, there’s a ton more to do/see without half the hassle in these places. 
Even Buffalo, which I was expecting to be a total dump … their downtown is quiet with not a lot to do (like ours) but I didn’t get hassled by a homeless person once. There’s stuff to do. Probably the most comparable downtown to Winnipeg, honestly … just cleaner and less disruptive.
I get the experiences won’t match because obviously the sample size is a lot larger in the city I reside in, but this place is a dump. Manitoba? Beautiful. Winnipeg? It’s a dump. It’s my dump, but it’s a dump. 

Well he isn't wrong,  Downtown + North End is a complete **** hole.  
 

I'm not sure which games that people had sacks and who played and what not.  But from the naked eye Jeffcoat didn't look like a difference maker while Jefferson from the start of the season until the end was very noticeable on the field regardless if he registered sacks or not.   
The amount of times he caused massive disruptions and the amount of times he had near sacks was very noticeable.  Sometimes stats don't tell the full story.   
 

This is what I'm saying... people pretending like those guys are mediocre and C level players really makes this site feel like riderfans.com     
 

I'm not sure which games that people had sacks and who played and what not.  But from the naked eye Jeffcoat didn't look like a difference maker while Jefferson from the start of the season until the end was very noticeable on the field regardless if he registered sacks or not.   
The amount of times he caused massive disruptions and the amount of times he had near sacks was very noticeable.  Sometimes stats don't tell the full story.