TrueBlue4ever

I wonder if Bighill’s struggles (last night especially) stem form him trying to do too much to cover for all these injuries? Like trying to play quasi-safety in pass D because BA is gone and we are 4th string now. Or covering for Clements and not just doing his own job and letting his teammmates do theirs? Thoughts?

Labour Day is a strange animal, never super confident we win even when we went in there 7-1 and they were 1-7. Too many “Rocky Butler” flashbacks to ever take them for granted. But have to feel very good about the two home games given the state of both teams at this time.

They let the play run out and then announced that the play was ruled an incomplete pass when they announced the penalties. Did not see a TD signal, so I suspect it was a missed whistle rather than an overturn by the command centre after. Maybe the ref didn’t bother with the whistle knowing there was a RTP flag and also let’s the “turnover” play out knowing it will be looked at by command centre. Just speculation on that last bit.

I don’t know what you see in the Elks that makes you think they are ready to climb the standings.

The play was ruled an incomplete pass and not a fumble on the field, so bad call or not it would not have been a fumble return TD on any event.

Joe Mack.

She’d probably love a pink Bomber ball cap and the stick-on tattoos more.

We’ve never lost wearing these. Who wants them back?

So who else is going to have this song stuck in their head all day? You’re welcome. 😁

Pretty sweet. I moved out to cottage country full time on the border last year, absolutely right it is a nice way to start each day. Safe travels today.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

How far outside the city do you live?

Some Grey Cup updates: Game is 98% sold out (btw - Labour Day classic is 95% sold out if anyone is still looking for tickets). They say that they are not planning to add any temporary seating at this time. All events for the week are taking place in one location by the Stadium (Evraz Place by the looks of it). So far only one ticketed event is for sale - the Touchdown Manitoba social! Here is the link: https://click.email.bluebombers.com/?qs=806d588c8887891b7a9a632b32ba66c2aeb0002147befe74e89fa6482b2523439bf5d5843939899098af8475e8e4e9ad0c2e3c7b250b3c3703095cc5578835ef After taxes and extra fees, comes out to $38.50 per ticket. To attend Bomber House (or any other club room) a separate Festival pass will need to be bought ($99 to get access to all houses, general public sales start Sep. 6, individual house admission can be purchased on site during the Festival but not in advance on line). Info on the Spirit of Edmonton breakfast (held on Friday and Saturday morning) should be coming out soon and the Elks Twitter account has mentioned it. Hotel space is very tight in Regina. In fact, as of June there was only one of twenty-one hotels showing any vacancy on Expedia, and rates were through the roof (around $800/night rather than the usual $125-150). However, the Cup website advises that the League is holding back rooms to determine how many they will need, so the best option is to call all the hotels directly and get on a wait list as they expect rooms to open up closer to the day.

Your last sentence sort of answers your own question of “why wouldn’t we?” Cost and wanting to be here. And speaking of small sample sizes, I’d rather not chuck a young guy based on less than 10 games of kicking last year. The last time we did that too quickly, we scrambled to get him back (Castillo). The time before that, he went on to be a star elsewhere and now we are pining for him again (Hajrullahu). Kickers miss kicks, doesn’t mean we run them out of town at the drop of a hat. Liegghio will learn, get better, and has made more game-winning pressure kicks (Calgary last year, Ottawa this year) than he has missed to cost us (Montreal this year).

7 involve soccer, 5 are Chicago fans, 4 Philly fans, 3 New York fans, and only one Boston fans (and Boston gets an even-up because Milbury “righteously” beat a New York fan with his own shoe). I can think of any one of a half dozen Bomber fan incidents (and at least a couple of Jet fan incidents) that could be placed somewhere on this list. Shockingly, almost all involve some form of over indulgence in alcohol.

Simple answer? Fans (short for “fanatic”) are ruled by emotion more than common sense and lack perspective. The same people begging for Lirim were likely his most vocal critics when he was here the first go-round The back-up QB and the free agent kicker the team haven’t signed are always the most popular guys out there for many fans at the first sign of things going wrong.

Kudos Mr. Perfect. Keeps it interesting. To be fair, if they both won (or lose) this week maybe Perfect should get first choice next week.

Oh Lord, please let this be true. Digging a bit deeper it appears not to be. His name was supposedly there as a placeholder until counsel was on board. Well, it was fun to dream for about a minute there.

Bravo. So are you a master debater or a cunning linguist?

Actually, that’s cleverer than most, even if groan-worthy. Will give you that one.

It’s that kind of arrogance that cost us the 2001 Grey Cup. And the way our o-line has been playing lately, Collaros and his sensitive skull are hardly bulletproof. I’ll wait until November 20 at 10:00 pm to do a victory lap.

Just exchange “Republican” for “white” and “Democrat” for coloured”.