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I believe that some seats are held back for the visitors who may have a number of seat requests for family and friends. Once the opponent becomes known the number of seats needed will crystallize and some previously unavailable seats will open up to the general public. Besides, lots of fans buy seats and then just stand in the North concourse the Rum Hut, so there is always walk-up space in the end zone seats, even in a sell-out. But the best sight lines are middle of the field, even in (I think especially) the upper decks.

Per Ticketmaster, based on currently available seats (always subject to change based on opening up held seats that are currently not for sale) there are around 3,300 seats left, so we are over 30,000 sold for Sunday as it stands now. As always, this is an unofficial count.

Was going to ask you as an insider, do the Bombers quietly resent not being talked about, or is this just a fan mentality of “we get no respect and we have a chip on our shoulder about it”? This club does not seem to need to beat its chest and say “told you we were the best, despite the media ignoring us”. They just go about their business and could care less about the chatter, and tune out the noise. The only exception seems to be A. Harris in 2019 calling out the “haters” for the abuse he took after failing the drug test, and he carried that chip on his shoulder. Same as the chip he had when he didn’t re-sign him and he wanted to show us in the Toronto game how good he still was. But that seems to be more of a personal motivation tactic for him, and not a club-wide scenario, unlike 2000-2001 when Dave Ritchie lapped up the “us vs the world” mentality to motivate the team. Personally, I prefer the quiet professionalism of a team that does not need to create any manufactured disrespect to motivate themselves, and just goes out and gets the job done - respect all but fear none, win with class and quiet dignity. I know others embrace the “disrespected, let’s show them up and shut them up” way, to each their own.

Saskatchewan minds just exploded with that dizzying display of math.

You mean other than slavery, the KKK, lynchings, school segregation, suppressing women’s and minority rights, dropping the only 2 atomic bombs on civilian populations in history, separating immigrant children from their parents and locking them in cages, and favouring protecting loose gun laws over protecting children from getting massacred in their classrooms? That’s not an exhaustive list.

Agree with this. BC was beat up today, we physically dominated them last time out, and Wilson aside we have more starting bodies back now than perhaps at any time since the season opener. And even if some fans are overconfident and downplay the Lions’ talent O’Shea and the team will respect what Rourke can do and will be mentally and physically ready. We matched up well against them this year and it’s not cocky to say we should be solid favorites at home. BC is rising but the Bombers are at the top and our descent has not started yet.

True enough. Fans get frustrated. Media gets bored.

I suspect that given the proximity to Manitoba, there will be a healthy contingency of Bomber fans there. But most “neutral” fans will probably cheer for anyone but Winnipeg. Underdogs are often rooted for more. No one outside Edmonton was cheering for the “drive for 5” in the 1980’s. It’s not personal, but people get bored of dynasties and want new blood.

Haven’t seen something age this badly this quickly since:

320 yards, 2 TDs, 73% completion rate, yeah, not much at all. And I love fans who see TV angles and can determine the attendance. It’s not a sin to give credit where credit is due. Rourke played well, Lions looked good, great showing from the fans, looks good on the league. We don’t all need to follow the Noeller “**** everyone else in the world except us” bitter mantra.

Can someone explain tandem blocking to me? It is supposed to be assisting a ball carrier by pushing them or pulling them along, no? Because the Mtl o-lineman did just that on the Stanback run and no flag. So when does it get called?

I’m not going to disparage women BUT (proceeds to disparage women).

Right after they file impeachment articles against Biden and Garland, and disband the J6 committee. As for the justification for the impeachments, they’ll just re-use Rudy Guliani’s quote about election fraud: “We have lots of theories, we just don’t have the evidence”.

Or just said “that’s our fans, the lifeblood of our league, voted” and not apologize for or retract anything. Ticketmaster right now is showing just over 4,000 seats left, but sometimes more blocks of seats open up late, so that number is not definitive.

I suspect there was no “calculation error“ and they simply added up all the votes and realized that the triple votes the fans were allowed totally skewed the results and gave guys like Andrew Harris an all-star vote despite missing most of the season. So the league, after a round of whining from the media voters, invented the “mis-calculation” and just counted media votes (which still had screw-ups like Grant getting a special teams nod while Alford was the award nominee in the same category). League would have been better served just saying “ the fans voted and here is who they thought was worthy, then the media could complain about how stupid the fans are (which they’d likely be too cowardly to do), but leave the league unscathed from its criticism. Then the league could quietly eliminate the fan vote next year.

Hit Parade with Chris Molanphy.

Jets forecheck and speed is encouraging so far. Admittedly low bar given what they’ve displayed so far this year.

Why not?

Prediction: PLD has his best game of the year. Wants to audition for his chosen team so they overpay when he becomes a free agent.

This is why fans votes should not be done in the first place. Forget the confusion and improper weighting, you are just going to get ballot stuffing and “name recognition” votes. Looks like the league caved to media whining.

Can’t speak to the US system, but in Canada the victim impact statement is meant to be a tool to allow the victims to have a voice and express their feelings of suffering and loss and is not intended to inflame the judge or jury. The system is supposed to be dispassionate and not fuelled by vengeance when considering a sentence. The danger is that tugging at the heartstrings or getting an invested party to rip into an accused can improperly influence a jury and lead to an unfair sentence based on the principles at play. Not saying as a human that this is proper, just that the system is set up to focus on the offender, not the victim. Personally, I think an example of where victim impact statements were used in a vengeful way and influenced the judge (by their own admission) was the Humboldt Broncos accident case, where passionate victim impact statements and direct calls for a harsh sentence led the judge to impose an 8 year sentence and force deportation on the truck driver for 16 deaths based on a single act, where the result was punished and not the act itself, as the law dictates was not supposed to happen. As a result, a sanction well above the norm (usually 2 years jail at most for a like offence of running a stop sign resulting in death) was imposed - far more than the Premier himself got for the same action that killed a single elderly lady. Now some will say he got what he deserved and sentences should be that high, but put simply the principles of sentencing and victim impact statements were not followed in that case with significant consequences. Now I won’t get into the debate of what use SHOULD be made of victim impact statements - that’s a moral debate and open to everyone’s opinions. Just saying how the law has operated and why the judge would have set restrictions in this case, lawfully correct but debatably right or wrong depending on one’s moral viewpoint.