Goldkobra
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4 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:
How's their kicker?
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27 minutes ago, Jesse said:
I really don't know why people keep bringing up Medlock. The Bombers want him here - he doesn't want to be here. It's over. He's retired and doing something else.
Likely not - meaning it is a reference to his nationality.
And telling a racial minority to "go home" clearly has negative racial connotations.
So, while I know some people think others are being "too sensitive" - sometimes you just have to think for a moment before you say things. It's not hard.
Agreed. I personally wouldn't have made the joke. But it's not a reference to his nationality. It's a reference to a name in a song that sounds similar. It's unlikely someone of a different nationality would have a similar sounding name. That's a coincidence not a raciak slur.
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2 minutes ago, Jesse said:
Would the same reference be made if he was a different nationality?
I kind of doubt it.
It's because his name is similar to lyrics in a song. Would someone of a different nationality have the same name?
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3 minutes ago, Tracker said:
Tried to not quote you as it was Goalie who posted the comment but that was the way it came out. My apology if I have offended. And I still maintain it was racist- what if we had a Cree player who was in disfavour and someone told him to get on his toboggan and go back to his teepee?
It's in reference to a song in the movie, not the man's nationality
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1 hour ago, Bombers9256 said:
We definitely are a nasty bunch
Though I do give huge props to this forum on the podcast. Love your takes here folks. Tomorrow's podcast notes that WBB Fan and Bubba Zanetti had posts of the week
What is your podcast called? Is it on spotify?
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16 hours ago, TrueBlue4ever said:
Texas seems pretty happy being it’s own entity and is doing OK……until their power grid fails.
The other major problem for me is that the best winter vacation spots on the States are the red locations (Florida, Texas, Nevada and Arizona in most elections - Hawaii is too far away to be affordable every year) and if they go totally Confederate States I will be afraid to go.
California is good. They have everything florida has. I'd miss Nevada though
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35 minutes ago, Mark F said:
it is Not ..."Fajardo."
it is Cofaj.
this is too good to be abandoned.
one interesting thing about bombers,mismthe number of canucks playing D.
Probably doesnt hurt depth wise. also, boosts those player's careers.
There are some really good D linemen in the league this season.
I give the mid season happy honker to Hanssen.
(stupid ambrosie gallivanting around the world!)
I thought it was Vagardo
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1 hour ago, Geebrr said:
Loved him here!
Dom Picard belted my mother in law in the face with a football. You could say I'm a fan.
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54 minutes ago, wbbfan said:
He's not on any roster. I wonder if he's an anti vaccine guy or if he's just fallen between the cracks. Seems unlikely as many teams have struggled with kicking and he's a beast. And he can punt too. But crazier things have happened. Better players have fallen between the cracks.
He could also want top dollar. In that case I'd go over the cap and lose a first to get some one top tier in if that's what it requires.
From what I've heard, in the FIFO era, Castillo is regarded as someone who can FO.
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13 minutes ago, Arnold_Palmer said:
He was very good here back in 2009. What happened to him? Why did he only play one year with the team.
I remember stories about him eye balling any fans who spoke to his girlfriend at practice.
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I always liked Ron Warner paired up with Doug Brown. Anyone else remember when Stanford Samuels used to post on OB.com?
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6 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Gimli would have been 1970 as the Bombers moved to St John's Ravenscourt in Fort Garry in 1971 & 72. What a picturesque setting with stately elm trees close to the Red River. Spavital believed that training camp should separate the Men from the Boys. You run, run, run & hit, hit, hit. Every practice every day in helmets & full pads. You'll either survive or quit. His philosophy was that games are won in the fourth quarter. That the Bombers would out hit & out work their opponents. He felt that the Bombers would not be tired late in the game if they had to go 109 yards for a touchdown with 3 minutes left to win the game. Hence the brutal training camps.
That philosophy isn't without merit. It's used frequently in mma camps. Get your cardio level up so high that your opponent can't blow you up.
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Does anyone know what's on the Bomber dog? Is it similar to the jets dog?
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39 minutes ago, WinnipegGordo said:
Including when the officials screwed up by not calling intentional grounding? The officials didn't call holding for both teams a bunch of times. Overall it was fairly called.
The officiating was fine. Missed calls will always be a thing. But I don't feel like the outcome of the game was effected by them.
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2 hours ago, Noeller said:
I wonder if it was a vaccine-related thing.....
Maybe they just weren't happy with him
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3 minutes ago, Brandon said:
I wouldn't say it is, these receivers had no issues once we moved on from Nichols and had guys who could throw the ball in to an area for these receivers to make plays.
Kind of agree, but small sample size, though. This group/regime still has something to prove, imo.
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40 minutes ago, TBURGESS said:
Again, you're proving you don't have any idea of what you're talking about. I'm not bitching about being able to develop a QB. It's just a fact that should be taken into account when looking at developing our current backup QB. Streveler, one of our best development QB's wasn't ready to win the GC 'last year'. We needed to bring in the vet Collaros to get us there. The chances that McGuire will be able to get us to the cup are slim to none and cup contender is what we all want to be.
You're the one who loves to complain. It used to be about what the Bombers were doing, now it's about me not agreeing with you and the other positrons (first time this year... I'm in preseason form). I bring up facts. You whine that I'm complaining. I explain again. You ignore it and whine that I'm complaining, this time with some caps. I agree to disagree. You make up something I didn't say and whine about that. Finally, you go completely off the subject and whine about things I've said or things you think I really meant in the past. I sigh, roll my eyes and try to push the keyboard away. Failing, I answer your tired tirade.
Facts: In 2019 we were 4th in the CFL, 3rd in the west. We traded for a vet QB at the last minute. He took us to the GC and won it. Years ago Calgary did the same thing. Based on these facts, we were a mid tier team that got hot in playoffs and won the cup, much like Calgary did all those years ago. No, that doesn't mean we didn't deserve it or that I didn't enjoy it. That's just the story you've made up. Yes we had some luck. Same holds true for all GC winning teams who weren't dominant in the regular season and some who were.
Going forward.... We brought back a lot of the GC team. Should that mean we expect to be dominant this year? Some folks around here sure think so, but were weren't last year in the regular season. We're going with a rookie kicker instead of one of the best if not the best in the league and a rookie OC instead of one of the best in the league. We've got an oft injured starting QB who managed 4 starts last year backed up by a 'rookie'. We're replacing a couple of top end DB's. Everyone's a couple of years older and we don't know how that time will affect them. I sure hope we don't get a string of injuries like the Riders got yesterday, but it could happen. Note that none of that is complaining or moaning, but from the Kumbaya, positive thinking, look for the best outcome crowd it must sound like it.
But why do the failings of previous regimes get heaped on to this one?
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My grandfather and great uncle narrowly avoided residential schools because he and his brother were born off reserve and their parents never went back. They moved to alberta and worked on a farm for most of their lives. After he left the army, served in korea, he had no form of physical identification until long after he got married and had children. He never pursued any type of band membership because he didn't want his boys being taken away.
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2 hours ago, Tracker said:
Why not? After all, the mass shootings are down lately.
It's not a mass shooting if everyone is shooting. That's just a regular gunfight, you pantywaist.
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3 hours ago, Colin Unger said:
I think they are obviously looking at a lot more than sharing refs. At first I thought it was going to be something minor but now that I've read that the XFL is putting planning for their season on hold its clear that we are potentially looking at XFL and CFL teams playing their seasons at the same time and potentially playing against each other.
I can see what the CFL is thinking here. We don't know when things will really return to normal. Will we ever see fans come back at the levels we had seen before? And even if that happens they need more fans in certain markets to be viable. This is about making the CFL less dependent on ticket sales. I think it has to do with the global initiative to bring in increased revenues from foreign markets.
My vision for this is something like this. One day they could basically form a new league called something like "The International Football League" with two divisions. The XFL and the CFL. If you think that having two leagues competing in the same league is weird take a look at Major League Baseball. Its not that strange. This would allow the league to be marketed as the CFL in Canada and the XFL in the United States. I think you'd see some loosening on what counts as a global athlete to anyone not born in the united states as there would have to be a ratio of non-American players across both the xfl and the cfl to keep things fair.
I think the XFL would accept the larger field and the 3 downs no problem but perhaps the rouge would be lost because americans will never understand it. But hopefully that would stay as well. The goal would be to market this form of football around the world and get every league outside of the NFL playing by these rules and have many jobs available to non-american athletes so there would be players from many of the other countries playing in this league to improve tv revenues in each of the other countries who are contributing talent. Of coarse the opportunity for a significant tv deal would exist in the united states as a result of having american teams competing.
Not sure that it would go to this in 2022 as it might start a lot smaller than that. But i would imagine that this is the long term vision.
I think you pretty much nailed how a merger would go down, imo. It's almost funny, each league has different problems that tge other is in a position to solve. The cfl has a small but devoted fan base. A mediocre tv deal, and the necessary infrastructure to have a football season.
The xfl has a lucrative tv deal, maybe not a devoted fanbase but the exposure needed to build one, and no stadiums to play in. I can see this happening.
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But how much rope do you give a guy who hasn't kicked in a meaningful game before coming here? This isn't a school for training future players. This is pro ball. This is supposed be results driven.