OldSchoolBlue
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What a waste of a real opportunity to do something cool.
Blech to all of these signature jerseys. Not a one of them is even decent.
And yes to those who will ask, I COULD do better
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The Argos have me worried. This won't end well.
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Big loss for the CFL.
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Just terrible.
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The only thing i will say is regardless of the story, it don't matter if its a gang member in winnipeg getting gunned down, it don't matter if its' a black guy being gunned down in the states, lol at the word "kid" used to describe a 6'4 305 pound 18 year old but.. regardless, you hear the same stuff, "he was such a good kid, trying to turn his life around" but then the facts come out and it makes you go hmm really.. Well some facts came out.. FACT: this "kid" minutes prior robbed a store with his not very credible witness friend... that's a good kid? a guy trying to turn his life around? BULLCRAP.
The other thing i'll say is, as much as some segments of the population may not agree, a cop will not shoot a civilian unless that cop is threatened. Obviously the "kid" did something to provoke the cop, if he didn't, the cop wouldn't have shot him a bunch of times.
That's all i have to say... hear the same thing every time in these "cases", it always turns in to a race issue, natives here, blacks down in the states.. it's always the white man shot him but the people never refuse to accept that their "little boy" might have been guilty of doing something to provoke the cop.
Nobody knows any real facts as to why the cop shot him but i'd be willing to bet just about anything i got that he had a very very valid reason to do so.
Rumours have it the "kid" actually reached in to the cops car to try to grab his gun, well i don't know about anyone else, but that's a big no no and if that's the case, well, it is what it is.
The cops' side of the story is:
He had received the call about a robbery but did not have a description. He came upon Brown and friend walking in the middle of the street. He rolled down his window and asked them not to walk in the middle of the street. They disregarded his request. The cop then got the description of the robbery suspects and decided it matched Brown. He tried to get out of the vehicle and Brown shoved the door closed, shoving the officer back in the car. Brown then struck the officer breaking bones in his face. The officer reached for his gun. Brown reached in and tried to grab the gun. I believe the gun went off first at that time. Brown backed away and began running. The cop got out of his vehicle, weapon drawn and ordered Brown to freeze. Brown turned around and became beligerent, taunting the cop. He then bull rushed the cop who fired several times, killing Brown.
More than a dozen witnesses have come forward to support the police officer's account. I believe the only witness to support Brown is his cohort who was in on the robbery (gee, whats his motivation in this) who claims Brown raised his hands and said please dont shoot and was then executed.
Now, sometimes good people do bad things. But this is a cop with (I believe) six years on the force and nothing on his file. So we are to believe that a cop with zero prior issues who has patrolled areas with large black populations chose this day to let his racism boil to the surface to gun down an innocent man in broad daylight in front of a bunch of witnesses?
Who's story rings more likely?
I disagree with your opinion 99.9% of the time - but not today.
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Agree it's cotton picking time next week.
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He's clearly past his prime, let's Buono him before he loses all trade value
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Good riddance to bad rubbish
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I've always wondered if the cfl would be better served by having 2 (or more) teams in Toronto. It's a different way to look at it for sure but it seems to me that individual teams in Mississauga, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough (or whatever divisions make sense) would do as good or better than the Argos. Of course, that ignores the obvious question of where these teams would play, but the Montreal model of 20-25k seems to be doing OK.
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Inexpensive, and reliable enough. Good signing.
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Swing and a miss. Not going to worry about it.
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No one is going to give us a damn thing for Banks.
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Gotta feel for the guy.
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Positive note... He chose to go and give up being a QB and coach because he didn't think he could beat out our current guys.. Seemed like he had the skills to do something here and was highly regarded.. So should we consider this a good thing minus losing out on a solid prospect?
Got a source for this?
Other then being a former athlete who wouldn't give up the dream until was pretty much told I had to? No.. Making an assumption here... Obviously he wanted to play if he bothered.coming here at all.. Probably saw the guys ahead of him and then weighed the 700 a week versus whatever he's getting coaching and went where the money was knowing it would be awhile till he sees the field..
So pure speculation then. Got it.
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Positive note... He chose to go and give up being a QB and coach because he didn't think he could beat out our current guys.. Seemed like he had the skills to do something here and was highly regarded.. So should we consider this a good thing minus losing out on a solid prospect?
Got a source for this?
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I'm surprised that they are able to host a game with the stadium in that state.
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Meh, I'd give him a look, I always like Bryant when he was in Blue and Gold. Contrary to the popular opinion on here I always admired his sticking up for his teammates in scuffles. I never held the opinion he was a me-first kind of guy.
All players get a pass on anything that happened during the Mike Kelly period. Extenuating circumstances and all that.
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Winning solves a lot of problems.
- Jaxon, Westy Sucks and road griller
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I'll be shocked if we don't pick up some scrub Nationals (still sounds weird to me) from other team's cuts.
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I like it.