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Who beat out Cleo Lemon and Cody Pickett for their jobs? Stephen Jyles? This is bugging me now.I looked it up... Lemon was replaced by an injured Jyles and a poorly performing Dalton Bell:
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/argos-drop-quarterback-cleo-lemon-1.1000012
And Pickett was replaced with... nobody? They just cut all their QBs in the offseason. I'm assuming they signed Cleo Lemon shortly after that?
http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=311051
sigh. I miss the days when the Argos were terrible and couldn't find a quarterback.
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I don't think anyone is saying marve is gonna see the field anytime soon, he might tho, he very well could be the 2nd or 3rd and short qb, would that not be seeing the field? is his praise really just based on one day of mini camp or is it based on one day of mini camp plus the florida camp, where from all reports, he was the best of the bunch there?
Nobody really knows what's going to happen. I just refuse to accept that NFL pedigree means anything in the CFL.
You don't think that a lot of scouts and NFL resources who look highly on a player doesn't mean anything?
I know some guys slip through the cracks but for the most part anyone with talent is on the NFL radar, cfl radar or even arena football radar.
Ricky Williams, David Boston, Bethel Johnson, Limas Sweed, J.T. O'Sullivan, Aaron Maybin and hundreds of others say otherwise.
A lot of those guys were washed up in the NFL before they even came to the CFL.
Who beat out Cleo Lemon and Cody Pickett for their jobs? Stephen Jyles? This is bugging me now.
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Does anyone on city council realize that the Bombers first home game is supposed to be in less than two weeks. I sure hope there's enough time to get it figured out. Maybe the Goldeyes have a game that day too...
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Who owns the stadium? If this is how the city wants to operate, considering the U of M location was probably the Bombers last choice for location but had it forced on them by politicians, then they should at least have full ownership of the facility if they're going to get screwed over every time a politician has a bad few monhts.
Anyone remember last year when the team was terrible and suddenly Seligner decided to crow about how the province should have more control over the team if they weren't going to be able to pay their debts? Just months after they were all smiling away at the grand opening taking all the credit they could get their hands on.
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I actually believe that... or whatever minion was manning the twitter feed got in some fast trouble.
Wpg Blue Bombers @Wpg_BlueBombers · 18s
@Brent_Neill It was an accidental RT, the Tweet was brought to our attention and we were reviewing. Not an official comment by any means.
I would buy it, except the person who runs the Twitter account has been in trouble before for similar stuff.
In that case I guess it's not a bad way to get a comment like that out if that's how they really feel. Put it out there just long enough for everyone to retweet it, screenshot it, etc., then remove and say it was an accident.
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I actually believe that... or whatever minion was manning the twitter feed got in some fast trouble.
Wpg Blue Bombers @Wpg_BlueBombers · 18s
@Brent_Neill It was an accidental RT, the Tweet was brought to our attention and we were reviewing. Not an official comment by any means.
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I'm guessing it won't be up for long.
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Funny that the Bombers official twitter account just retweeted that comment...
Wpg Blue Bombers @Wpg_BlueBombers 24s
RT @garrettbillan1: @Wpg_BlueBombers Sammy still crying about his buddy Rabb being rejected by the BOD I see.
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And Hamilton fans think their new stadium is special? Sure.
Of course it is. According to Zach Collaros it's better than IGF.
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One last point from me: I had my questions about the Bible being the literal word of God, but years ago, I happened to become friends with a pastor from the Mennonite faith (fundamentalist Baptist, really) and eventually we got onto the subject of religion and dogma. He told me that in theological college, the student pastors were told that they ought not to take the Bible as inerrant and they even spent time studying how it had been edited and re-edited, where it contradicted itself in places and where in the old and new testaments it orders and/or justifies incest, adultery, bigamy, murder, genocide and killing of infidels. The students were told to be prepared for questions of this sort but to dismiss them as the unfathomable word of God. You may want to look up what Jesus was supposed to have said in Luke 19:27.
The Bible has been altered to justify the views and actions of whomever was in power in the early Christian church, and many of the heads of that church were often weak, corrupt and under the influence of local rulers.
If that story is true, then I'm curious Bible school he went to, because that sounds a bit ridiculous. We have older, more numerous, and thus far more reliable manuscripts of the New Testament than any other book from the ancient world. It actually doesn't contradict itself either. In fact, it has an impossible number of predictions in the Old Testament that were proven correct hundreds of years later.
As for Luke 19, just read that chapter in the Bible yourself. If you want to cherry pick single verses to make the Bible look bad, you could do a lot better than one that is clearly just part of a parable Jesus is telling.
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We finally have a GM who is acting like a CFL GM.
come on now, Mack moved up in the draft as well and he wasn't afraid to go and get the player he wanted in the draft either. I swear some of you just make **** up all the time. The difference here is that Walters is going more by the book, remains to be seen if that's the correct strategy or not.
Yeah, everything everyone is saying about Walters, we were all saying about Mack for the first couple years. But it's kind of a Winnipeg pastime to trash the previous regime mercilessly in order to build up the new one. One of these times we'll be right though - hopefully this is it.
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I don't understand what all the fuss is about. Price has the right to express his religious freedom - freedom of religion is an inherent right in our charter - Sam has the right to do what he is doing. I didn't see anything hateful in what Price said - he simply disagreed with something (we aren't told what) - disagreeing with something is not necessarily hatred. Even calling something a sin is not hatred. Jesus affirmed marriage was between a man and a woman and he didn't hate anyone.
So you're cool with the KKK too?
Give it a rest. You're clearly being more "hateful" than any of these football players tweets.
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It's frustrating to read this stuff when it appears most of you have no idea what the actual Christian position on homosexuality is. You seem to all have a warped view that lets you paint anyone who disagrees with you as a hateful bigot.
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The Ottawa BLACKBLACKS.
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Eating organic is of course your choice. But you should feed only organic food to your kids. Frankly if you don't feed your child organic food then I won't even let my children talk to them. And you are an irresponsible parent.
This isn't a serious comment is it?
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Not exactly Point Douglas though, it was waterfront, they were gonna extend waterfront, point douglas isn't that bad, I mean, yeah it's sketchy at times but really name an area and it's sketchy at times. Really it's no worse then the downtown region by the MTS Centre.
Point Douglas could be a gorgeous area, its surronded by the river, it's unfortunate that it's a giant waste of space though and it's unfortunate there are people living there who just don't give a crap. It could be quite beautiful if it was indeed redeveloped.
It's not like they were gonna build this stadium near magnus or manitoba avenue, now that area is sketchy at all times.
Point Douglas is close to Main Street. The area is run down. That entire part of Winnipeg would have to be bulldozed. As bad as the U of M site is for access & egress of traffic it is still better than Point Douglas.
But that was the whole point. They were going to bulldoze a good portion of that dump and improve it.
And if you're that scared to to leave a football game with 30,000 other fans around you at night then I don't know what to say. I am pretty sure people said the same thing before they built the MTS Centre too.
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Safeway? They don't have those in Toronto? Talk about small-time...
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The Point Douglas plan was amazing. But they would have had to tear down a handful of old, decrepit slum houses, so that was a no go. The bleeding hearts at the Free Press were in a full-on freakout within hours of the announcement.
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If what Juran says is true might IGF be another Olympic Stadium ? Impressive but in a state of constant repair and expense ?
In other words, not the stadium that Winnipeg needs, but the stadium that Winnipeg deserves?
I think it's a little early to be jumping to those conclusions.
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Well maybe that's true... but on 1290 yesterday morning some anonymous caller who claimed to have worked at the stadium said his other anonymous friend said that it would be smart to not sit in the entire west side of the stadium in the future!!! That's the kind of anonymous panic-mongering I can get behind.
The fact that the hosts didn't laugh him off the air, but took that comment seriously made me turn the radio off.
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Obviously the Bomber board doesn't have a great track record of making good decisions lately... but if the agreement is to have a representative from the City of Winnipeg on the board, then shouldn't that person be... oh I don't know, a representative of the City of Winnipeg? As opposed to just some buddy of Sam Katz. And as the Bomber guy pointed, Katz will probably not even be the mayor shortly, so then where's the city's representation? Seems to make sense to me.
On the other hand, who knows what kind of BS goes on in the background with these people, of whom I know exactly none of.
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Why can't they just have a hard cap like the NHL or NFL, where they literally can not go over the cap, because the league won't approve contracts that would cause them to be over.
Is it so hard for them to track the cap throughout the season instead of this bush-league honour system that they seem to be using?
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If someone things drainage issues are easily solved they clearly have never dealt with a drainage problem. Water under any circumstance be it in the environment or in a man made situation has only one guiding influence. That being GRAVITY. If there is a crack or crevese it will find it and flow where gravity takes it. Seal up one spot and it will flow and travel until the next. For someone to simply pass this off as a minor problem is either uneducated, inexperienced, delusional or simply thinks the rest of us are idiots.
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Max, it's a story. People do care. It may not have been a big deal had the stadium not gone into cost overruns & delayed a year but it's just one more black eye with the facility. The thing that makes it more "newsworthy" is the fact Miller won't let the media in. We can only hope that this is the last thing that happens.
You make it sound like it's been falling apart from the start. What are the other black eyes again? The traffic issues that they managed to pretty much solve within a week? Or the *gasp* handrails that had to be replaced?!?!? Or maybe the open-air press box that no fans will ever use, that will be enclosed in time for the Grey Cup and Winter Classics. I guess if you add those up you have half a black eye, maybe.
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I continue to be amazed at the constant stream of players whining and embarassing themselves on twitter, and I'm not even paying that close attention. Maybe the Bombers twitter problems of the past couple years weren't just a Winnipeg thing after all...
The players are acting like they're in a CBA battle with a group of millionaire/billionaires like the NHL and NFL. Someone should remind them that in places like Wpg, Sask, and EDM, if the teams lose money it is the taxpayers paying the bill. Lord knows we have already. And in the other cities the teams will just fold if they lose enough. This maybe makes me sound like a shill for the league, but in many ways the CFL is essentially negotiating on behalf of the fans way moreso than in any other situation we've seen in sports.
The higher the salary cap and ratification bonuses are, the more money the province and city (ie. the fans) are on the hook for if the Bombers ever come up short.