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Without going to any video to refresh my memory: Against Calgary- 1)although a scoring play, Medlock’s 52 yard FG at the end of the half. Ice cold ball, brought us to within 6 points in a half we were outplayed in 2) LaPo letting Streveler stay in for a series. On Demski’s TD run, Streveler held the ball a long time on the handoff and the defender bit on the QB sneak, allowing Nic to get through the hole untouched, then it was a foot race 3) The physicality Of the defensive backs. Those first half hits made the receivers skittish and it showed in the 3rd when they did not commit to route running and dropped a few passes. No Levi had zero yards passing in that quarter and you could see his receivers were rattled 4)Mike Jones’ “simultaneous catch” INT when Calgary could have gone up 14-0 early 5) On Streveler’s nail in the coffin TD, Hardrick pulls from his right tackle spot to left tackle. Kenny Lawlor takes his spot and seals off the right side with a great block, Hardrick absolutely crushes his block and Strev is able to bounce outside and go all the way. Brilliant blocking scheme Against Sask- aside from the ones you mentioned, the goal line stand play, specifically 1) the dumb play calling from the Sask o-coordinator. If William Powell was fed the ball I think Sask just might score when they kept imploding inside the Bomber 5. 2) The defensive poise after Fajardo threw an illegal pass after running past the line of scrimmage. Obvious blown call even after the review (and I don’t but the whole”back foot still behind the line” - it was not) gives them a gift first down, but the D buckled down and held to a FG. 3) Winston Rose’s INT and even more importantly big run back 4) On the 2nd last goal line stand, 3 huge plays. First down Jefferson times the snap perfectly, goes untouched around the block and forces a bad pass out of bounds. Second down Theadric Hansen meets Powell at the one foot line and stands him straight up one on one. Even forward momentum and Powell crosses the line, Hansen refused to budge an inch and keeps him out. Third down DB Nick Taylor moves up to the line and dives in the legs of the o-line taking out 3 players. Totally opened up the hole for Matson and Bighill to make the stuff play Grey Cup 1) Hansen’s special teams double take out set the emotional tone for the dominance by the Bombers and the half heartedness of the Ticats. 2) Mike Jones hitting Brandon Banks so hard he quit the game with an injury, and then breaking up the long bomb to his Hamilton namesake when a TD could have made the game interesting.

You stay classy San Diego.

Hmmm......not sure but this might warrant an NSFW tag. It’s close.

Alex Trebek’s favourite impersonation of him.

2020 couldn’t even give us one full weekend of happiness.

One comment that really tells you the view of Trump was a reporter saying he had never seen a celebration of Americans in the streets like this ever, not when any other President was elected, not even to this extent WHEN BIN LADEN WAS KILLED. More loathed than Bin Laden. Congratulations on your legacy Mr Trump.

In a shocking twist, the outgoing President was on the golf course when the news came in.

So aside from the obvious “You’re fired!” headline, a British journalist Andy Ryan suggested a number of others. The Lying King Down in the Trumps Lord of the Lies Donald Dumped Unpresidented Orange is the New Sacked Game Over, Combover and my favourite - POTUS Out of Our Misery

10:25 am Saturday, as his Pennsylvania lead goes over 30,000, CNN has now officially declared that Joe Biden has been elected as the 46th President of America (I can’t really call it the “United” States anymore).

Not as hard as people here if the Riders got the first pick, or vice versa.

Given how they reached out to people to cobble it together. You’d hope they would reach out to Bob Irving to get him to simulcast a play by play and then put it out as a TSN special broadcast.

My favourite random tweet of the day so far: https://twitter.com/thejasonkirk/status/1324773842791944194?s=20

Um, Trump knows he is trailing in Arizona and Nevada, and needs to count those votes or he will lose the election, right?

So the RINO’s at FOX called Arizona for Biden yesterday, as did many others, but CNN refuses to. Trump’s new favourite network. And CNN looking smarter by not calling it, Trump is cutting in to that lead rapidly. And for those scoring at home, Trump and his supporters were screaming “stop the count” consistently right up until the moment they were trailing but showing gains in Arizona, now it is “count them all”. Love to see how they explain that inconsistency away in a court of law when they bring their election lawsuits. And kind of pathetic but on brand that the Arizona protestors who disrupted the polling centre demanding that all votes be counted were actively protesting for something that was already happening, and all they managed to do was stop it because of safety concerns, effectively achieving the opposite effect of their protest at their own hand.

Biden has now taken the lead in Michigan. Those crumbs are delicious.

Maybe. We shall see. FYI Trump already has 3,000,000 more votes nationwide this election compared to last. Looks like he broadened his base. And Biden has received more votes than any Presidential candidate in US history.

I like the way CNN has been explaining the voting patterns and why the vote is moving the way it is. Their “magic wall” does a great job of breaking down the voting to counties and shows where there are still a lot of votes to be counted. Right now largely urban areas and traditional Democrat strongholds. Right now if Biden can win Arizona (currently up 130,000 votes, 5% lead), Nevada (up 7,500, 0.6% lead in a state Dems won last time), Maine (up 78,400, 12.5% lead), Wisconsin (now leading by 21,000, up 0.6%) and Michigan (trailing by 27,000, down 28,000 after trailing by 270,000 last night when they took a break from counting, down 0.5%) then Pennsylvania does not even come into play as he would hit 271 electoral college votes. And Pennsylvania still has 1.4 million advance mail in votes received that are still to be counted. Trump up by 600,000 right now, and they won’t apparently start counting again until 9:00 am Winnipeg time. All this as of 7:30 am local time. If Michigan shifts blue in the next hour Trump really goes crazy. But Nevada still in play big time, which was supposed to be Democrat safe.

Humility.

But how will you ever learn otherwise?

So just Before 11:30 pm local time, CNN says that Fulton County, Georgia (which contains Atlanta metro area) has over 46,000 mail in votes still to count, but they are packing it in for the night and will resume the counting tomorrow at 8:00 am. There is a lot I just don’t get about America (love of guns, race wars) but how in the world does this “greatest country on earth” have 11 hour line-ups for voting and no ability to tally votes in a timely manner with all the advances in computers and all the early voting they did? And who just stops counting halfway through to pick it up later? This is once every 4 years, one would hope an all-nighter is not too much to ask. This is bush league stuff.

Just don’t start whining about the Lapp playbook, the defensive breakdowns of Richie Hall’s schemes, and scream about blowing up the failed Canadian mafia at halftime if we are behind. Football is a 60 minute game, and all you negative Nancy doom and gloomers are getting tiring to me.

1. He hasn’t played with the Riders since 2017, so not like this happened under their watch. 2. Doesn’t sound good, but hey let’s just remind ourselves of the whole “innocent until proven guilty” thing 3. As a follow up to those 2 points, the Blue Bombers once employed Garry Sawatsky as an offensive lineman AFTER he was convicted of 2nd degree murder as a known gang member. Good on him for turning his life around after a stint in Stony Mountain, but maybe just tone down the sanctimonious Rider bashing a few dozen notches.

Wish Biden would point out that one of the groups that relies most on mail-in ballots and late counting are the US soldiers stationed overseas defending US democracy, and Trump is trying to invalidate the voting rights of the armed forces with his rhetoric. Let’s see the MAGA crowd defend THAT stance.

Another day in the White House https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-national-day-remembrance-americans-killed-illegal-aliens-2020/