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Freedom of speech is by definition for speech that people find offensive. There is no need for freedom of speech that everyone agrees is not offensive. People (ie mostly the left) have forgotten this.

While it's great to see the Riders lose, I keep just remember the 7-1, 1-7 billboard season. I'm not going to get excited about anything until after the Banjo Bowl, let alone 3 measly games. The Bombers seem to regularly start out well, only to steadily decline all season long. And we also regularly see other teams start out terribly only to completely turn their season around. See the BC Lions when they beat us in the last Grey Cup we were in.

Not to mention the fact that the games were 8 days apart. I always thought a week off after any concussion symptoms have stopped is kind of standard.

Interesting... seems like we see lots of "slight or incidental contact" turn into roughing the kicker penalties when the ball isn't blocked.

World renowned pessimist manages to criticize and declare doom on the only good news Bomber fans have gotten this week. Read more at winnipegsun.com...

I'm definitely starting to lose interest in the CFL. I just haven't figured out if it's because of gimmicky new rules, the frustration of PI challenges on any given big play, or the nagging feeling of hoplessness around the Bombers I just can't shake.

I said dislike, but I reserve the right to change that to hate. It's really annoying to get excited about a TD, and then have it immediately dampened a bit by another lousy Hajrullahulahoop missed convert.

Of all the ridiculous penalties that get called in CFL games, I can not understand how our quarterbacks specifically keep getting nearly decapitated with nary a penalty flag to be seen.

Well it does for religious people. And for those that arent religious, why should they be held to the standard of the religious? Is a marriage between two non-religious people any less of a commitment?Someone asked what the big deal was outside of the ceremonial nature of marriage. There are matters of benefits, death benefits, decision-making etc. Things of that nature. Franky I think those matters are the big deal. I also don't know why one religion would pretend to have a monopoly on the concept/term since it's been around forever under many different civilizations. Although never between two men or two women, to be fair.

Well it does for religious people.

An American kicker, no less.

How about WORST 3 offseason moves? 1. Taking so long to announce the first cuts. 2. Cutting their 5th string QB in a possibly impolite way. 3. Almost letting people think they wouldn't be able to attend training camp for a few minutes that one day.

But for him to get any more than that someone like Portis or (gasp) Marve would have gotten just 1 or 2 throws a day.

Well he was the 5th string QB, behind 4(!!) QBs that were already with the team last year and the team had chosen to bring back. Would he have preferred they didn't ask him to come at all?

Of course coaches make mistakes all the time. But the point someone made above is valid about them basing their decisions on hours watching tape of games and practices, and actually knowing what the plays were vs. us just watching a few plays in the game. If anyone here ends up being right about a player and the coaching staff is wrong, I would chalk that up to pure luck more than anything. And the Bombers haven't cut Marve - they obviously don't think he's terrible and they do want him on the team. So it's not exactly a cut and dried either/or thing here.

Couldn't agree more. How ridiculous is it going to be when the biggest story of a lot of games is how the kicker did on converts? My thoughts on the game: Punt coverage was excellent by the special teams. Kickoff coverage, not so much. Robert Marve sure is exciting to watch. I have no idea if he would be an effective quarterback, but his couple drives in garbage time 2 years in a row have been thrilling.

Gary Lawless fat jokes, really? Come on, this isn't HFboards. Let's save the vitriol for those that really deserve it. Like Paul Friesen and all of Saskatchewan and Toronto.

I'm no expert, but I'm guessing to decide to broadcast a game on 3 days notice would be a lot more hassle than it's worth for a pre-season game.

THE highest brother combo. And they're less than 100 points behind the 6 Sutter brothers' combined points.

We should have an honorary Tburg day here, where we all pick something that is completely absolutely 100% totally irrelevant without any bearing on anything and possibly bordering on unicorns in it's imaginary nature, and complain about it. I was so happy a game had finally been played, so now he can complain about a real thing, like a hand-off out of shotgun on second and ten, but no. This. It's so abstract it's like Picasso and Dali had a baby who grew up claiming to be a Bomber fan. Let me try... I think the fact that they changed the name of Investor's Group Field to just "Winnipeg Stadium" for the duration of the Women's World Cup shows WEAK leadership. If Wade Miller was any kind of a leader he would have defended his major sponsor and stood up to FIFA. I think we have a major problem in the management of the team, and this is just the start of a slippery slope where major soccer federations continually marginalize the team until they have to relocate to Moncton.

What a scandal.

Where did this "NFL aspirations" thing come from anyways? What player in the CFL DOESN'T have NFL aspirations? I'd be worried if he didn't. And the idea that you'd cut your backup or 3rd string QB because you're afraid you'll lose him to the NFL anyways.... that makes no sense to me on multiple levels. Who was the last QB to leave the CFL for the NFL? Casey Printers? I don't think we are anywhere near needing to worry about Marve. If he is in a position to bolt to the NFL after this season that will mean that Willy got injured and Marve led us to a wildly successful season. I'll take that.

Except everyone will just come up with the blue and gold 80's jersey, and the contest will end up a tie.

I sure hope we're paying him what he's worth. If O'shea thought he is good, then I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I just hope he's not looking at it blindly, just like how he saw Ejiro Kuale at last year's TC. Has anyone heard the description, "S/he wouldn't say **** if her/his mouth was full of it"? For me, that was the most annoying thing last season- that there were really, really inept players (and at least one coach) on the team, and everyone was pretending that all was sweetness and light. I know about the code of silence and all that, but there ought to have been someone who called bullpoop and at least at the end of the season named names and swung the axe. Wellllll, neither Etcheverry or Kuale are on the team anymore. Or did you want someone to literally kill them with an axe? Because then our GM would be in jail.

I find it amazing that all these leagues have no shortage of players eager to file suits like this. If they actually succeeded they would pretty much destroy the whole league - especially the CFL. After he made a pretty good living in it for many years. Pretty despicable if you ask me.