Fatty Liver

I think this is the week Reilly finally gets on track.

Griffiths plus Dondre Wright???

More likely to insert Dondre Wright than Griffiths IMO, his skillset is more closely matched to Briggs.

My favourite sports interview.

Talk about serious bad luck, Briggs waits 6 years to get a start and in both games he starts, he incurs unrelated injuries severe enough to remove him from each game.

I caught a discussion on Rider Radio a couple of weeks ago with one of the Rider reporters complaining about the control the CFL has taken over media reports and limiting player access to interviews in order to "control the message", which has diminished the flavour and the shine player personalities added to the league in the past. His point was limiting access made it much harder for fans to get to know the players as many of them never interview and those that do are essentially trained like seals to spout the company line. Watching Bomber interviews day after day on their website, I tend to agree with his opinion, they have become exceedingly boring to the point that you can predict the answer to any question with almost 100% accuracy, especially O'Shea's.

Right, that was the game I was thinking about. JENNINGS, Jonathon 26/35 74.3% 329 2 1

To put it in context this happened in 1974 when the price of a beer was around 50 cents. Still 5 for the price of one....people are going to lose their minds.

I don't think so, in 2017 the Bombers were fighting with the Esks. for a home playoff game right down to the wire, they both ended up 12-6.

He has kicked the Bombers butts before, I wouldn't take him lightly. Week 19/2017 JENNINGS, Jonathon 30/40 75.0% 408 4 1

Ekakitie officially packs it in. https://3downnation.com/2019/07/16/former-first-overall-draft-pick-faith-ekakitie-announces-retirement/

I dunno but I'd pay top dollar to witness an event of this magnitude.... Problems from the beginning[edit] Six days after the brawl in Texas, Cleveland's Ten Cent Beer Night promotion drew 25,134 fans to Cleveland Stadium for the Tuesday night game, twice the number expected.[8] The Rangers quickly took a 5–1 lead. Meanwhile, throughout the game, the inebriated crowd grew more and more unruly. Early in the game, Cleveland's Leron Lee hit a line drive into the stomach of Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins, after which Jenkins dropped to the ground. Fans in the upper deck of the stadium cheered, then chanted "Hit 'em again! Hit 'em again! Harder! Harder!" A woman ran out to the Indians' on-deck circle and flashed her breasts, and a naked man sprinted to second base as Grieve hit his second home run of the game. One inning later, a father-and-son pair ran onto the outfield and mooned the fans in the bleachers. As the game progressed, more fans ran onto the field and caused problems. Ranger first baseman Mike Hargrove, who would later manage the Indians and lead them to the World Series twice in 1995 and 1997, was pelted with hot dogs and spit, and at one point was nearly struck by an empty gallon jug of Thunderbird. The Rangers later argued a call in which Lee was called safe in a close play at third base, spiking Jenkins with his cleats in the process and forcing him to leave the game. The Rangers' angry response to this call enraged Cleveland fans, who again began throwing objects onto the field. Someone tossed lit firecrackers into the Rangers' bullpen.[9] In the bottom of the ninth, the Indians managed to rally, tying the game 5–5, and had Rusty Torres on second base representing the potential winning run. However, with a crowd that had been drinking heavily for nine innings, the situation finally came to a head. The riot[edit] After the Indians had managed to tie the game, a 19-year-old fan named Terry Yerkic[10] ran onto the field and attempted to steal Texas outfielder Jeff Burroughs' cap.[11] Confronting the fan, Burroughs tripped. Thinking that Burroughs had been attacked, Texas manager Billy Martin charged onto the field with his players right behind, some wielding bats. A large number of intoxicated fans – some armed with knives, chains, and portions of stadium seats that they had torn apart – surged onto the field, and others hurled bottles from the stands. Hundreds of fans surrounded the outnumbered Rangers.[9] Realizing that the Rangers' lives might be in danger, Cleveland manager Ken Aspromonte ordered his players to grab bats and help the Rangers, attacking the team's own fans in the process. Rioters began throwing steel folding chairs, and Cleveland relief pitcher Tom Hilgendorf was hit in the head by one of them. Hargrove, after subduing one rioter in a fistfight, had to fight another on his way back to the Texas dugout. The two teams retreated off the field through the dugouts in groups, with players protecting each other.[9] The bases were pulled up and stolen and many rioters threw a vast array of objects including cups, rocks, bottles, batteries from radios, hot dogs, popcorn containers, and folding chairs. As a result, umpire crew chief Nestor Chylak, realizing that order would not be restored in a timely fashion, forfeited the game to Texas. He too was a victim of the rioters, as one struck and cut his head with part of a stadium seat[12] and his hand was cut by a thrown rock. He later called the fans "uncontrollable beasts" and stated that he'd never seen anything like what had happened, "except in a zoo".[13] As Joe Tait and Herb Score called the riot live on radio, Score mentioned the security guards' inability to handle the crowd. Tait said, "Aw, this is absolute tragedy." The Cleveland Police Department finally arrived to restore order.[9] Later, Cleveland general manager Phil Seghi blamed the umpires for losing control of the game. The Sporting News wrote that "Seghi's perspective might have been different had he been in Chylak's shoes, in the midst of knife-wielding, bottle-throwing, chair-tossing, fist-swinging drunks."[14] American League president Lee MacPhailcommented, "There was no question that beer played a part in the riot."[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Cent_Beer_Night

Very strange signing, looks to me like Briggs might be out long-term and they picked up Jones as his ST replacement, surely they don't intend to let him play LB. Weird replacement because he is an Import who has built a decent career mostly playing ST.

Thought this was pretty funny. Full story. https://www.bardown.com/ryan-whitney-hilariously-pranks-mackenzie-weegar-pretending-to-be-new-panthers-teammate-noel-acciari-1.1337883

Maybe we can tie it in with the "most obnoxious drunkard to post on the game day thread", to be awarded the morning after.

Streveler can also slip his helmet on and off as easy as if it were a ball-cap.

Only if someone were pushing for it, otherwise such a detail would likely be ignored or missed by immigration.

Anyone catch Chamblin's remark about Ian Wild making lots of good plays but also lots of bad plays? He's learned nothing from his years in Sask.

For 4 and 0???

Fair enough, 110% speculation on my part, it would be extremely unusual for a football club to agree to such terms but I could see Harris asking for it and Walters granting it to get him back in a Bomber uniform considering the state they were at in terms of a rebuild. It's worked out quite well for all parties regardless. Before Harris came along the RB's that preceded him were Nic Grigsby, Paris Cotton and I think Will Ford, all highly skilled but not dominant performers.

Jones stole money from the Rider organization, the difference is he put it in his contract and got the flat-billies to agree to let him do it.

I do wonder how much say Harris has in the amount of playing time he receives. It was quite clear when he played in BC he was not pleased about sharing reps. with Stefan Logan even though Logan was a helluva good RB at the time and no one can fault Wally for using that strategy. Could it be that Harris made it clear when he jumped to Wpg. that he wanted to be "the man" and even had it written into his contract that he would not share the load without first giving permission? I don't know how else to explain the reason he would stay in the Argo game until under 2 mins. remained on the clock before passing off to Augustine. Harris may not admit he cares about stats. but you have to believe he's driven enough to want to leave behind a legacy as one of the best Natl. RB's to ever play in this league, and the best way to do that is to accumulate the career stats. that will speak for themselves long after he's retired. As TSN points out every week he's quickly climbing a number of all-time lists and even Harris must realize he's running out of time to accomplish his goals.

Not sure about that, Hardaway would have an entire team to hold as ransom.

I always take Herb Z's whiny posts with a table-spoon of salt but here are a few of his recent tweets. Herb Zurkowsky@HerbZurkowsky1 This #AlsMTL organization just can’t stand out of its own way. Fire a GM with a home game in a week ... on a two-game winning streak? I understand new ownership wanting its guy in place, but why not wait to see how the season now unfolds? Herb Zurkowsky@HerbZurkowsky1 The firing of #AlsMTL GM Kavis Reed can only mean the team has been sold. With them on a two-game winning streak, hope the new ownership group knows what it’s doing Herb Zurkowsky@HerbZurkowsky1 I’m told American agent Johnathon Hardaway was recently approached to become #AlsMTL GM.