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Josh Huff

Got a Like from Milt Stegall. No big deal. 😎

I have to say I can never remember the production being this bad. At halftime of the first game they flashed an 11-9 Calgary score. It was 14-12... Then for a while during this game it showed as 3-0 Ottawa when it was 3-0 Edmonton. Can't remember there ever being so many outright screw ups simply displaying the current score of a game. Serious question, with the year off did they turnover a lot of TV staff?

In my head I'm going "he's going to get it knocked out and recovered in the endzone" as the Calgary DB closed in. Joe Lobendahn flashback. 😁

Not to pile on TSN, but opening graphic to introduce Bethel McLeod-Thompson. 🙂

I genuinely think he is one of the best QBs in the CFL. I've thought so since he first established himself with Toronto. The perception of him being middle of the pack at best is mostly based on injury concerns due to concussions, understandably. If the games were played on PS5 with injuries turned off he's right near the top.

Armanti Edwards

Still hasn't sunk in that I'll be at Fort Hew in a few hours.

Demski is a threat to take one to the house any given play.

Well, great. 🙄

Yes, exactly.

You're not wrong, but this is the CFL. If you've got a quarterback with experience in the league that would have been available as a backup in mind I'd love to hear about it.

You can't make a big deal about McGuire being unproven, really. Everyone besides Hamilton is screwed if their starter goes down. I mean, Toronto has Arbuckle/MBT. Bethel-Thompson is decent, put up nice stats last year and his record Plus it has been said plenty, who were Arbuckle and Evans going into the '19 season? And I know most on here would rather chug a bottle of bleach than give the Riders credit, but career backup Fajardo got pressed into action and took them to 1st in the west. 🤐

Does the 12 in a row 2001 team count as dominant? Or the subsequent Sellers teams? Inquiring minds want to know.

First thought was the 97 Argos as well. As has been said they were leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of the league.

Love all of these. Keep in mind it isn't restricted to this last playoff run. How about Roberts' run up the gut to set up Westwood's winning FG in the '07 west semi or Terrence Edwards' over the shoulder grab that set up Milt for the all-time TD tying score in Edmonton?

I'm thinking of these as non-scoring or turnover plays that don't get talked about much but could have been huge momentum swings in games. The thread idea came to me watching the West Final highlights (and the 10 Plays That Make a Champion articles). Late in the 1st half the Riders force a fumble, Collaros has no idea where it is, spins around and by sheer luck it's right underneath him and he drops on it. When that football starts bouncing around on the turf it's very unpredictable. The Bombers ended up with a punt single on a bad decision by Thigpen on the drive, if the Riders took over things could have played out much differently. Also fairly well known around here, but still in the same game had Shayne Gauthier not run down the misdirection punt return there's a very good chance the Blue Bombers don't get a chance to win the Grey Cup last year.

Well yeah, because he can actually throw. He can make things happen on the ground when called for though.

Bo can run around pretty good. Not as much anymore due to age, but he was efficient enough.

I bet it was! After 11 freakin' years I had my arms in the air on my couch. Being there must have shurely been special. Especially if you'd made the trip over that whole time. There had been every possible result. A good Bomber team losing to a good Rider team. A bad Bomber team losing to a good Rider team. A bad bomber team losing to a bad Rider team. And maybe the most traditional way the weekend can go, a good Bomber team losing to a bad Rider team. 🙂

Ed Tait covered the 2003 Classic on BB.com. What a game. The opening drive is burned in my mind. Short kick to Harold Nash to start around the 50 or so. Sideline pass to Milt for a first down. Long pass to Sellers for a huge gain. Dump it off to Charlie for another nice chunk. Play action and Khari strolls in for the TD with the ball high in the air. I think I have that game around on VHS. I should figure out a way to get that beauty up on youtube.

Earliest Bomber related memory I have is going to fan day and the massive line up for Dunigan's tent. Matty was the king of Winnipeg while he was here. In game would be some time in the Kerwin Bell era when the team was trash. Not a lot of winning went on here back then, but I somehow recall one game a ball getting lobbed downfield in the dying minutes and batted by an Argo DB right into a Bomber receiver in stride for a touchdown and I'm pretty sure a win.

Favourite: Khari Jones. Loved the guy and still wish him success even though he's with the greasy Als. Least Favourite: Nate Davis. Hated the signing the whole way. Luckily only played one game for Winnipeg. Still one game too many.

That will somehow be Nichols' fault. 😁

Exactly. Finding the balance between price that will be profitable but see near capacity crowds will be tough, but it's what leagues are going to have to do. Teams are slowly catching up with the reality of the time we live in though. We're even starting to see teams buck the tradition of gauging people at the concession stands. I love attending live games and I'm sure the majority on a forum like this are with me on that. But there are a lot of factors that make attending games a hassle. I can not drop an extra $100 to pay for tickets and parking to walk a mile to the stadium when I could be at home without $10 beers and a bathroom line as long as it takes me to walk over.