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Just as soon as this investigation was done, now he is facing sex assault allegations. Sharks will not have him at training camp until the investigation is complete.

Ottawa O-line went to 4 Canadians to bring in Kenny Stafford as the new offensive threat. Result? One target, no catches.

I pity the fans in Ottawa.

I’ll give Rod Black this credit. He is really selling it hard to try to convince viewers that this game is still in doubt so the ratings don’t tank. Not enough shoe shine in the universe to polish this turd. Outscore them by double digits. Not our team, just our defence alone.

LaPo wants to challenge offside but can’t, so is grasping at straws in the hopes the command centre spots it. Wasn’t offside anyway.

On to happier news. Was just looking it up and Edmonton and Calgary are both out of the playoffs right now. Since they both joined the CFL in 1948, Alberta has never been outside the playoffs. Dare to dream!

Too much credit…….Fumble.

This game is not going to draw new fans to the game. The refs pulled an Anti-Riders and couldn’t count UP to 12.

In the first half, each team had 9 drives. Ottawa’s average start position was their own 27. Hamilton’s was their own 52.

Edmonton gets Ottawa twice, but they also get Winnipeg 3 times. Ottawa peaked tonight when Hamilton LB Jarek Richards slipped and wiped out running out of the tunnel at the start of the game.

But that year when the Bloc collapsed it was still a majority government. In every minority since 1980 it has been the Bloc votes and not the NDP that have made the difference.

The record low average per game since 1958 (when offensive football increased) is 15.4 points per game, held by (guess who?) Ottawa in 1988 and 2014, when they scored 278 points in a 18 game season. Coming into this game they were averaging 16.0 points per game. It will drop to 13.3 if the shutout tonight continues.

The fact Hamilton is only up 14-0 says a lot about how bad they are right now. I don’t remember the last time I saw a half of football as inept as Ottawa has put on tonight. Wonder what the average staring field position has been for Hamilton?

That must have been it. Felt like a bad acid flashback seeing that name again.

His other contribution was the idiotic “Bobo” which I thought died a merciful death until it randomly popped up in a post last week.

At the same time, advancements in health care, science, sanitation, and life expectancy would also normally skew the numbers lower. How much that is offset by a quadrupling of the population in comparing total numbers is hard to say.

It would also be interesting to see if there would have been any minority governments in the last 40 years if the Bloc Québécois did not exist.

Actually it has happened a few times. In a 14 game-or-more season, there have been 13 seasons where a team has won 2 or less games (as far as I have researched it; there were seasons of minimum 10 games where a team won 1 or 0 games). 6 times a coach has survived not only that full season but coached the following year in part at least. Here is the list, some very notable names: Winnipeg has done it twice. In 1964 they went 1-14-1. They retained their head coach. You may have heard of him. Yes, it was Bud Grant, and he followed it up with a Grey Cup appearance in 1965. In 1970 Jim Spavital was in his first year and went 2-14. But they kept him around until 1973 and he got them to the West Final at home in 1972 (incidentally, that was the last time the Bombers finished first in the West and hosted the West Final). Saskatchewan went 2-14 in back-to-back years in 1979 and 1980. Ron Lancaster was coach for both full seasons, so he both survived and was purged after a 2 win year. He also shows up again after he was let go following Hamilton’s all-time worst 1-17 season in 2003 (but he made it through the entire season). Rick Campbell, as the Ottawa RedBlacks inaugural coach in 2014, was retained when they went 2-16 in his first year. Rather than tying the can to him, they stuck with him and were rewarded with a Grey Cup appearance the following year and won it all two years later in 2016. His GM was also Marcel Desjardins, so he knows something about patience and loyalty. The Alouettes also have 2 entries on the list. In 1967 Kay Dalton went 2-12. Undeterred, the Als stick with him and watched him “improve” to 3-9-2. They still held on to him and he went 2-10-2 in 1969 before they finally had enough at season’s end. Finally, in 1982 Montreal went 2-16 with their new head coach Joe Galat, but he hung around for another 4 years after that. Other than Bud Grant, interesting to note that all the coaches who survived the 2 win or less season were in their first season as head coach when it happened. Of the 8 times a coach was fired during or directly after a 2 win or less season, none of them were in their first year with the club as head coach. All this to say if LaPolice is let go any time before the start of next season (assuming the club wins at most once more this year) it would be unprecedented in CFL coaching history.

Wasn’t Nick Benjamin also a notorious dirty guy who was universally despised back in the 80’s? Lots of knee shots to vulnerable players to my memory.

Maybe the Dems feel that if they attack him and eliminate him politically through incarceration, it would please their base but not motivate them to get out to the polls in the future, while it would completely alienate the conservative base and fuel a payback at the polls. Also, Trump’s track record is losing the popular vote twice, losing the House, and then losing the Presidency and the Senate, so why get rid of a loser opponent? If he runs they can count on a huge anti-Trump vote again, and if he doesn’t then he is the sleeping bear that did not poke, and the Republicans would likely split between the moderate faction and the Cruz, Gaetz, Boebert, MTG full-on MAGA buy-in crowd, opening a bigger path for the Dems (wonder if they would go so far as to start a 3rd party?). Or it’s just typical Democrat spinelessness to stand up in the face of bad faith politics and “hope” their “we go high” morality wins out, which it never seems to have in the past.

Good lord, no one is firing LaPolice 6 games into his tenure. That would be Joe Mack levels of dickishness. He clearly was the choice of management, axing him one third of the way into a season with a team everyone reasonably predicted going in was extremely weak would be a sign of ownership failure, not his. And who knows exactly who pulled the strings on the Nichols-Arbuckle swap and why. If you take Desjardins at face value, it was a commitment and contract issue, but who knows. If LaPo had that much power that he could make GM moves, then he has the power to be around for at least this year. Not sure anyone truly believed Nichols would have not recovered from a hit two years ago and was playing with what sure looks like a dead arm. Toronto certainly didn’t or they would not be have signed him. And again, taken at face value, the scuttlebutt is that he was released rather than receiving an off-season bonus that was due as a pandemic cost-cutting move. But again, the only ones who know for sure are the management of the Argos and RedBlacks.

Weird Wednesday game tomorrow. Hamilton at Ottawa. When (if ever) do the RedBlacks win another game this season?

Aaaannnddd………here we go again. Banjo bowl is done. Could we lock this thread and stop this please?

Maybe the word “believe” should have interpreted as “accept”. I was in San Fran too, and a lot of folks in the fandom and on the club were happy to ignore the noise surrounding him when he played for the Giants and was a star there. Perhaps my socIal circle was different from yours. Both could easily exist. Both violated the policy, both got 2 game suspensions. From a black and white static punishment point of view, they are equal. From a subjective morality point of view, it will completely depend on who is answering the question.

Not sure if this is sarcasm or legit, but it seemed odd they gave him 2 games and then delayed the extra game for a week and a half when the entire incident including the abuse was one thing all at the same time. Why not give out 3 games all at once?