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This is the most depressing time of the year. The whole "we are only 2 points behind some team that is almost as pathetic as we are and if we win 3 of the next 4 (even though we have won 3 of the last 13) we could sneak into third place and get beat like a prison ***** in the semi final" phase of the season.
And the worst part is it's an annual tradition.

This is the most depressing time of the year. The whole "we are only 2 points behind some team that is almost as pathetic as we are and if we win 3 of the next 4 (even though we have won 3 of the last 13) we could sneak into third place and get beat like a prison ***** in the semi final" phase of the season.
And the worst part is it's an annual tradition.

I hope they move Turner back to being lead sports columnist and not Wicek.  
 
Or maybe now that Ed T has a couple years making NHL contacts to go with his football cred they will feel he's ready to take the big byline.  I'd love to see that.  He has that rare ability to criticize the home team without enraging the fan base.  But then again I guess enraging the fan base is at least a little bit a part of the job.   

I remember when Hustler & Lawless jumped to 1290.  It was before the Jets were even back if I recall (and definitely before TSN got the radio rights).  I was having a drink with a CJOB employee friend and he said everyone at CJOB thought they were nuts and the station told them they were betting on the wrong horse.
 
Turned out pretty good for both of them.
 
Despite the criticism, Gary works hard and has a ton of insight.  He's clearly the most connected guy in Winnipeg.  I know when there is a development or even a big win or loss with the Bombers or Jets, I seek out his twitter or H&L to get his take on things.
 
Good for him and good for Winnipeg to have the local guru deepening his national connections and presence.

That article was hilarious. Yeah i'm just going to go up to Canada, be the next Warren Moon, win every game by 3 touchdowns, win the league championship and then those NFL guys will beg me to come back. Said almost every American QB ever. Anyway, wish this kid a lot of luck, but it sounds like reality is going to be a MF'er.

With our O Line and Matt's history I could also see Nichols being out for the season with a knee injury about 17 seconds into the first quarter on Saturday.  

With our O Line and Matt's history I could also see Nichols being out for the season with a knee injury about 17 seconds into the first quarter on Saturday.  

Exactly.  Providing analysis is not trolling.  
 
I could pull up 20 tweets of his that would anger you with their unrealistic optimism.

It is easy in hindsight to say that the MTS centre should have been built with a larger capacity, but it was no small feat to get the thing built in the first place.
 
The save the Eaton's group, the land, the funding.  The footprint that they built the building on makes it a challenge to make the building bigger.  They should have closed a lane on each side of the building to enlarge the footprint.  Good luck selling that on downtown streets.
 
And while True North had the foresight to check to make sure that the building was large enough to house an NHL team should it become available one day, there really wasn't much chance of the NHL coming back when that building was built.  It was built for the Moose.

Oh c'mon! None of you know what type of relationship O'Shea has with the players or how he interacts with them in the locker room.

I'm no fan of Bellefeuille, but it's ridiculous to think that someone else calling the plays is going to make a lick of difference with Marve or Brohm.

No

I've been to about 12 Grey Cups. I've travelled all over the country and sat in all kinds of weather to watch all kinds of teams I barely cared about play in the game. That being said, I don't have tickets to this years game and don't plan too.
There isn't one big reason I'm not going but the pricing doesn't help. To buy my seasons for the Coupe and take the wife and the boy (neither would have been pleased with being excluded) would have been $900. That's a lot of money for a family. We all have to make our own budgetary decisions and maybe others would have had bought the tickets. But one afternoon watching Hamilton vs Edmonton in potential minus 20 at almost the cost of half a trip to Disneyland didn't work for me. And that's coming from a guy who has spent thousands and thousands of $$$ so the CFL product over the years.
Had the tickets been $200 instead of $300 would I have considered it more strongly? Maybe. If the Bombers were a legit contender would that have changed my decision? Maybe. But neither is the case, and as much as I feel kind of guilty not going I probably won't.
I also don't have a lot of hope for some huge last minute walk up. I think people have made their decision. You'll probably see corporations and sponsors buy a bunch of tickets to make it respectable. But with the Bombers and Riders all but out it won't be regular joes.
Then again if they land the Biebs for half time ya never know.

I've been to about 12 Grey Cups. I've travelled all over the country and sat in all kinds of weather to watch all kinds of teams I barely cared about play in the game. That being said, I don't have tickets to this years game and don't plan too.
There isn't one big reason I'm not going but the pricing doesn't help. To buy my seasons for the Coupe and take the wife and the boy (neither would have been pleased with being excluded) would have been $900. That's a lot of money for a family. We all have to make our own budgetary decisions and maybe others would have had bought the tickets. But one afternoon watching Hamilton vs Edmonton in potential minus 20 at almost the cost of half a trip to Disneyland didn't work for me. And that's coming from a guy who has spent thousands and thousands of $$$ so the CFL product over the years.
Had the tickets been $200 instead of $300 would I have considered it more strongly? Maybe. If the Bombers were a legit contender would that have changed my decision? Maybe. But neither is the case, and as much as I feel kind of guilty not going I probably won't.
I also don't have a lot of hope for some huge last minute walk up. I think people have made their decision. You'll probably see corporations and sponsors buy a bunch of tickets to make it respectable. But with the Bombers and Riders all but out it won't be regular joes.
Then again if they land the Biebs for half time ya never know.

I wish Brian Brohm would get suspended 4 games for deflating my hopes and dreams.  
 
Has anyone used that one yet?

I wish Brian Brohm would get suspended 4 games for deflating my hopes and dreams.  
 
Has anyone used that one yet?

I wish Brian Brohm would get suspended 4 games for deflating my hopes and dreams.  
 
Has anyone used that one yet?

If we were talking about Drew Willy vs Trevor Harris it would be one thing.  But since we are talking about Drew Willy vs Brian Brohm there is nothing to talk about.  
 
Does Drew Willy give us our best chance to win?  Cmon?  Seriously?  

You think Doug Berry was enamoured with Alex Serna?  He screamed him off the field and right out of football.  

I think the point a lot of us would make is that they're writing speeding tickets for being 2 KMs over the speed limit.

Blame a DC for inexperienced players and and an inept front 7 that can't pass rush. Hall isn't the personnel department. You coach what u r given to coach.

If ether get 28,000 tonight that's a lot more than last year.
I have never had anyone tell me safety or the HeritAge Classic is the reason they don't have seasons. And all my friends are both Bombers and Jets fans. Cost and the fact the team has sucked are the only reasons I ever hear for not have ST's.
They've won 4 out of 21 games in that stadium. That's REALLY really bad.

Reebok is more likely the perpetrators of the stupid jerseys than the marketing department of the Bombers. Also, almost everyone from marketing when those jerseys were introduced has moved on.
What I didn't like was the dishonest marketing of the 2011 season as the last in the old stadium and 2012 as the first in the new when anybody who had so much as had a friend in the construction industry or trades knew they wouldn't be playing the new stadium until 2013.

My guess is that we're not trading any QB and all of this is forum blah blah.

I like JFG.  But as a back up Canadian.  I don't like him starting as an 8th Canadian.  I would prefer to see a better American in that spot.  And if we couldn't find an American better than JFG I just kind of wonder about our off-season recruiting.    
 
I don't know.  Maybe a harsh assessment but I would have hoped the ratio flexibility created elsewhere would have been used to get more of a weapon in that 5th receiver spot.