TrueBlue4ever

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”.

Fans in BC just went 50 shades of pale when Rourke came up hobbling.

I guess 5 yard no yards penalties still exist.

Same thing here for Harris for some. Made excuses and rationalizations, “tainted supplement”, “useless old type of drug”, outrage that he was not up for awards rather than outrage that he broke the rules, then not brought up again until he left. But trot out “PED Leonard” at the drop of a hat. Like I said, typical of any fan base if it is their player, not just unique Riderfans denial.

Fair point. Maybe it was the eating factor. Not that Davis jumping into the stands wouldn’t expose him.

Thanks

Rich, I picked the Tiger-Cats to beat Montreal before I saw their injured list today. I would like to change my pick to Montreal now if that is possible.

Yikes. Tiger-Cats lose both their starting cornerbacks and Simoni Lawrence for their next game, and Lawrence has gone to the six game injured list. https://3downnation.com/2022/08/19/ticats-place-all-star-linebacker-simoni-lawrence-back-on-the-six-game-injured-list-lose-two-more-defensive-starters-for-matchup-with-montreal/

The league has kind of painted itself into a corner here. If the rule is simply that the visiting team should avoid going into the home team’s stands, then the Williams fine os OK, but Dom Davis absolutely have been fined, even if the attempt was poor (the intent was totally there). And Williams was clearly celebrating with his team’s fans, in a special section with no threat to the opposing home town fans. And in regard to the Argo Ti-Cat incident, it was the home team in it’s home stadium that fought with visiting fans. So either you make a blanket rule of “zero fan interaction of any kind” and things like the Bomber TD hop get banned, or you do a case by case basis based on observed threat, in which case the decisions on Williams and Davis both don’t make sense. So what does the league do next time a Rider jumps into his own home stands, eats nachos, gets fined, and rightfully says if that is a breach where is the Bomber fine for every TD celebration where they jump into the stands? Then the Hardrick Hop gets banned and this is why we can never have nice things. Or the Rider doesn’t get fined and where is the consistency? Especially when the league enjoyed the positive fan PR of the creative celebration and ran highlights of it on Twitter (since edited) and their website.

I would be too. My father’s connection to the Bombers goes back to Osborne Stadium and graduating from med school with Bomber great Tom Casey. He got me interested in the team and the CFL in 1981, and we got season tickets the following season. We got to experience the great 80’s teams together, an amazing way to start my fandom with such strong teams. Saw all the highs and lows over the next 37 years, and many vivid memories of our time spent at the ballpark during that time - way too many to share here but would be happy to regale you with some of you want the anthology contribution. Like your dad, mine passed in 2017 (on Thanksgiving) and I can still remember the quiet pain I felt in 2015 when I could see that he could no longer physically handle the walk up the stairs or mentally follow the games from the stands any more as his age and dementia caught up with him. Knowing I was losing him and those special father-son moments a full two and a half years before he actually died. Thanks for your piece, it certainly resonates with me and brings my own fond memories with my father flooding back.

Duke Williams gets fined for jumping into the stands in Edmonton and eating nachos with Rider fans after a TD. Seems silly but a violation of “security protocol”. So where is the fine for Dom Davis for jumping into the stands in Winnipeg to antagonize Bomber fans? More potentially explosive security situation there, no? https://3downnation.com/2022/08/18/cfl-fines-riders-receiver-duke-williams-for-viral-nacho-eating-touchdown-celebration/

Wow. Pearl-clutching about a post before it is even a post. Impressive. God, this bye week cannot end soon enough.

Fair enough. I would say the short punt is easier, but agree to disagree. The kick is more conventional. Thanks for the opinion.

7 year contract for a 32 year old. And the stupidity of NHL GMs continues.

Are Rider fans denying that he skipped the test, or just not bringing it up when they rip on Harris? Because I thought that was your complaint, and I don’t surf Riderfans so I would not know.