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CHL also has roster rules that limit the number of imports a team can have, to keep the number of Canadians on the roster constant and to keep the grassroots development strong. MLS also has import roster rules, and specific rules to allow homegrown players a chance to make more money.

Dave Naylor explains the union vote issue here: If 90-100 players in each camp, then 800-900 total voters. Removing 400 from that vote skews things pretty drastically, and if the vast majority of those lost voters are American, then the Canadians get an over-represented voice. With rosters of 21 Canadians, 23 Americans (counting QBs) and 2 Globals, a divisive issue like ratio changing will split the vote almost 50/50, so screwing with ability to vote for Americans can make a big difference. Simoni may have a valid concern. I could imagine an equally insensitive Canadian player’s response to you being: “All of the player concessions fall Sole(l)y at the feet of the Canadians...we have already lost one of our guaranteed 7 starting spots to the “veteran American” (and it used to be 12 Canadians, then 11)...now you want our reps cut down which will soon lead to full-time loss of the spot and only 4 Canadians per team…....prove your own worth by making the starting 24 and stop crying. Canadians have been the backbone of this league and the reason inferior Americans who can’t make the NFL have another option to play football and get a second look, and paid in many instances when they would have no career option...if there is no ratio many a Canadian player who is better like an Andrew Harris never even gets a fair chance to compete from the start due to being ousted by a far cheaper American who had the advantage of a big shiny US College program ..yes it's the CFL and nationality which is what the league was founded on should not be compromised so that a few top Americans can be paid more and create a greater divide between the top and bottom money-makers on a team and divide a locker room even further by creating a rich and poor class system...I can tell you first hand many a great American player had the opportunity to come here as he has had NFL coaches in his ear telling him to not waste his time in the league cause he gonna be cut for not being big enough, fast enough, tall enough, mature enough, doesn’t fit the NFL model enough (see Willie Jefferson for one) until he gets a solid look here, performs, and then the League gets past its biases and takes a second look, all because the CFL was there to showcase him (see Doug Flutie and Cameron Wake for two more)…..this is facts You still will require 20 Americans plus QBs plus two more designated imports..suck it up..prove your worth rather than demanding less Canadians get jobs in their home country and being indignant when they choose to vote no to sacrificing their own jobs for you..if it's mainly the Canadians balking at the 49% thing it’s because it’s just another step towards eliminating Canadians all together and wiping out any sense of”Canadian” in the CFL..and alienating the Canadian fan base by having American league with American rules and American players without guys who are home town heroes who put butts in seats and have their merchandise fly off shelves (Harris and Demski probably moved more jerseys than Zach Collaros)……if Americans don’t want to play up in Canada as immigrants taking jobs from Canadians (funny when the MAGA war cry is on the other foot, isn’t it?) they can go play in the XFL, USFL, arena league, or whatever other US spring league has been created this year and watch it fold in a year or two while their player paycheques bounce again and again, or they can come up here and earn their spot in the most-tenured football league in North America and only stable viable option to the NFL to keep their football dream alive, or they can go work at Walmart with their 4 year college football scholarship degree, or they can eat a bag...” Not so sure the fans have been truly united. Majority of the vocal folks seemed to be firmly in the players’ corner and did not like the ratio changes in the first offer, but now that the Canadian players are pushing back at voting themselves out of a job, the vocal public is now casting them as the villains because it might delay the season. And we need to be careful about the utility of “tapping the pulse of the fan base”. The CFL would probably prefer to tap the pulse of the non-fan to see what would make them a fan rather than catering to the established fan who is not likely to go anywhere anyway, even if Canadians are eliminated (as the flip-flop on the ratio stance would seem to indicate).

Khari Jones.

A surprisingly weak number reserved for many back-up QBs and DBs, but one iconic photo makes today’s choice an easy one. Kicker Alexis Serna being consoled by coach Richard Harris after a tough game.

Oops, did not notice the typo. Thanks for the the catch, have corrected it. Stupid auto carrot.

Kyrie Wilson getting excited for the three peat kickoff in 19 days.

D-I-c-k Huffman

By that logic, the lowest paid player would always make more than the best paid coach. It’s got nothing to do with risk, the players are the faces that sell the game. People pay to watch Connor McDavid do magical things on the ice, not watch the brilliant coaching moves of Darryl Sutter behind the bench. Kids clamour for player autographs, not coach’s.

Madison Cawthorn does not seem to be taking his loss well. open the link to the Daily Beast article to get the full crazy.

OK, Darryl Sutter just went up another notch in my books.

That they exponentially increase in levels of suckitude with each sequel in a blatant George Lucas/Disney cash grab. Just a hunch.

Here’s the senior class final exam question. Get it right and you are hired as the Rough Riders special teams coordinator.

https://www.grey cup festival.ca/109th-grey-cup-tickets/ The 109th Grey Cup tickets will go on sale to the remaining 8 team’s season ticket holders on May 26th, 2022. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on June 14th, 2022. They corrected the website this morning, albeit only in the last two hours or so. It’s Saskatchewan, this would qualify as Operation Warp Speed for them.

And then came to Winnipeg for grades two through twelve? I kid! I kid! Actually, that would be the accelerated program for grade one graduation in Riderville. Anything under 5 years and you get a “my kid is an honour student” bumper sticker for your tractor.

Especially for the fan base who will be hosting the game at the new time. Anticipate chaos.

Were you planning a road trip?

Let’s face it, this whole “nationalized Canadian” thing is just a way for the owners to slowly reduce/eliminate the Canadian ratio rules over the next few years. I suspect the owners want cleaner language than what they agreed to (as evidenced by their original offer) as their ultimate goal is to not overpay for a higher demand Canadian player in place of an American who is likely more skilled and would come cheaper due to supply. The CFLPA needs the appearance of fighting to protect the Canadian jobs so they ask for a hybrid 51/49 model to give the illusion of fighting for all members, when the rumour is that Americans are bothered by seeing Canadians get more pay based on their passport and not necessarily their skill set, and this agreement in effect starts squeezing them out. So both sides agreed to this messy arrangement to play the long game. This is the second CBA that has allowed the “nationalized Canadian” and last time the Tiger-Cats exploited the loophole to start a Canadian for one play and then let them “get injured “ and replace them with an American. Despite getting busted for it I don’t think they had any severe consequences for it (paid an undisclosed fine).

Well their ticket office does not open until 10:00 am so you might want to check back then in case Chelsea is mistaken.

Gotta say that whoever runs the Blue Bomber Twitter account is always a step ahead of the pack.

Before you launch into the “Mickey Mouse” league stuff, just remember that when Dallas hosted the Super Bowl they sold the same seat multiple times and left a few hundred fans standing in a tunnel with only a partial view of the Jumbotron and no actual field sight line as their game-day “solution”, and this for tickets priced at thousands of dollars. Take a breath, you will get your access soon enough.

Perry Tuttle. To my knowledge, one of only two Winnipeg Blue Bomber players to ever make the cover of Sports Illustrated.