blueandgoldguy

BUT HE WAS THE GREATEST DEFENSIVE MIND OF ALL TIME.
Too bad he gutted the team but did have more success with the defense then i expected last year. 
In All seriousness, when the 3 of the 9 teams in the league are having issues getting fans to attend games or making a profit, i think a salary cap is a necessary mechanism to keep the league alive.
Its also why i really like the idea of CFL 2.0 with getting internation viewers to tune into games, increasing viewership is one of the main ways to increase stagnant revenue.  

Fixed that for you.

looking at Rider fans alot of them have a realistic view of the west.. and a few are out to lunch putting the bombers at the bottom and out of the playoffs.   Now the bombers may not be world beaters this year with O-line changes but i'm not sure how they figure the additions of jefferson, mathews, whitehead et all aren't going to offset some of those losses.. While the Riders lost their " greatest defensive mind the cfl has ever seen" while losing jefferson and still relying on macadoodoo and Carlost.  Maybe they suprise us and the offence improves enough to offset the drop in the defense but, the defense is what won them games.
BC Could be really good with Reilly if their O-line can provide alot more time then they did in Edmonton.   Not sure about edmonton and Harris.  Calgary looks to be just as good as years past.
 
I think Hamilton does really well and will wait to see what happens with the rest. 
 

Liam Neeson?

Expecting it to fail and hoping for it to fail are two different things.

Without fail here are the worst pre-season predictions in the league from the one and only Rod Pederson
West Division
1. Calgary Stampeders
2. B.C. Lions
3. Edmonton Eskimos
4. Saskatchewan Roughriders
5. Winnipeg Blue Bombers
East Division
1. Hamilton Tiger-Cats
2. Toronto Argonauts
3. Ottawa Redblacks
4. Montreal Alouettes

I'm a non-Bomber fan? Uh, no.  I have been posting here since the beginning and on the old forum as well.  I think it is fair game to criticize the promoter of this event for what little thought he put into the pricing of this event.
Yesterday, Friesen provided an update saying around 5,000 seats were sold (or at least grayed out on ticketmaster...apparently the club seats on the east side of the building were set aside so not sure if those were all sold)  Now I would say maybe around 7,000 seats are sold, not suprisingly almost all in the 3 cheapest sections.
The promoter and his company are from Saskatoon so on a positive note if this thing goes south, we can blame Saskatchewan!

We may still have that chance next year.

Poor Khari

I'm a non-Bomber fan? Uh, no.  I have been posting here since the beginning and on the old forum as well.  I think it is fair game to criticize the promoter of this event for what little thought he put into the pricing of this event.
Yesterday, Friesen provided an update saying around 5,000 seats were sold (or at least grayed out on ticketmaster...apparently the club seats on the east side of the building were set aside so not sure if those were all sold)  Now I would say maybe around 7,000 seats are sold, not suprisingly almost all in the 3 cheapest sections.
The promoter and his company are from Saskatoon so on a positive note if this thing goes south, we can blame Saskatchewan!

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TSN has no NHL coverage and only gets every second Raptors game.  As the official broadcaster of a 9 team league, they should put their money where their mouths are and cover all the pre-season games - especially out West where eyes will actually be on the broadcast.

The CFL needs to demand better coverage from TSN, including complete highlight packages on their website, of the 3 games played last night they dedicated less than 1 minute in total to the highlights of all 3 games.   The least they could do is show every TD, big play and turnover and maybe try to get the players names right.  In the  Bomber highlight video the commentator has Collaros completing a TD pass to #1 receiver, "Darwin Adams".

Can Teitz make the team.  I want hear Rod mispronounce his name forgetting the E in his name during a game and then follow it up with a typical Blackian pun.

Can Teitz make the team.  I want hear Rod mispronounce his name forgetting the E in his name during a game and then follow it up with a typical Blackian pun.

This had all the makings of a Glieberguy redux.

The CFL may have dodged a bullet when they turned down Guzzo.

The thing is you don't have to stay at a super cheap hotel or eat sandwiches to make a cheap trip to Minny.  It's quite easy to stay at a 3-3.5 star hotel like a Marriott for $120 or so a night and split with a friend.  Plenty of decent cheap dining options that aren't fast food but don't have to cost you an arm and a leg for eating out as well.  Good breakfasts can cost you $10 in plenty of places.  Heck the Marriott I stayed at last time in Minny had an all-u-can eat breakfast buffet for $12.  Add in Viking tickets for $60 - $120 and other awesome attractions that are free or cheap and you can keep your spending to an amount not much more then what you would spend for a pair of $330 upper deck tickets to IG Field.

Just the storyline & analogy used... Ya da, ya da, I can go to Minneapolis, I can sleep on the floor in a flea bag hotel or the back seat of my buddy's car, I can share gas with my friends, I can bring sandwiches & bottled water instead of eating in restaurants….  Somehow making a so called cheap trip to Minneapolis to watch the Vikings  is somehow better value than watching the game here.  Whatever floats your boat, I guess. 
I agree prices are high but why are we acting surprised? That's the promoter setting the price. However, if you really want to go then you'll go.

I hate to say it but the Als will probably fold at the end of the season.  No serious businessperson will take ownership of the Als without major concessions from the league.  That would be paying a portion of the losses for the forseeable future (2020 and beyond).  It will take years to increase the season ticket base and corporate support back to what it once was.  At that point, it will be a break-even operation.  Not much incentive for these wannabe owners.  I think they are mostly tire kickers anyways.  BOG won't agree to subsidizing operations for an indefinite period of time.

Is Reed running the media in Montreal too? 

For sure.  After hitchhiking to Minneapolis and sleeping on a bench at the bus station, they will be impressed at how we can intelligently save money.
I can't help but notice with a few exceptions, the same people who are claiming they won't go because of the price are the same people who said they wouldn't go long before they price was announced.
Go.  Don't go.  Few care.  But being one of those people who claim they didn't want go to the Heritage Classic because "the ice conditions of an outdoor game can't be consistently maintained which makes the outcome suspect but the points still count in the standings which could effect a playoff position just to have a cash grab and everyone is tired of these already they aren't special anymore blah blah"...spending hundreds of dollars to rent a chair for 3 hours to watch millionaires make billionaires richer will never not be a stupid way to spend money.  Pay your hydro bill.  Save up for a vacation.  Give it to a breakfast program at a youth drop-in center.  It's your choice.  The price for this event, however, is completely in line with events of this nature.

More money than I'd pay for a preseason game and I doubt it will be a sell out in Winnipeg at those prices. Hope they sell enough to make a profit.

I think some of you underestimate the popularity of the NFL.
Not just here, but there will be a significant traveller component to this. There are a lot of northern US Packer fans that will travel for this.