It’s the day many were hoping would never arrive.
Bob Irving’s final broadcast is Dec 5. 

15 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

Well that's just it.  It would involve corus paying to broadcast the game. The other option would be for bell to hire Irving to call the game, but that would be bad optics for a national broadcast to have a home announcer. Though if anyone can be professional about it it'd be Irving.

Bob used to pair on the road with Neil Lumsden as a colour guy for Ticats broadcasts, and with an ex-Montreal player (name escapes me, almost want to say Pat Woodcock) for Alouette broadcasts, and they were excellent. Especially Lumsden. I would heartily endorse that kind of “balanced” broadcast. 

Edited November 10, 20214 yr by TrueBlue4ever

19 minutes ago, JCon said:

Won't Bell just play the game on one of their local stations? They'll have to do that in other markets too. Unless, Corus would buy (sublet?) the rights to play the broadcast locally? 

No they won't air it on the radio in Winnipeg I don't think.... Can't see them going away from a current format just for the game, but who knows. I could absolutely see Bell doing something petty just to **** Corus in the ass. It would be par for the course for big corporates. 

51 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

Actually not only did he come to my McDonald's and complain about the lack of salt on his fries, he followed me home to my Mom's basement.

My mom gave him milk and cookies when he showed up at our house.  He felt kind of sheepish after that.

1 hour ago, rebusrankin said:

Actually not only did he come to my McDonald's and complain about the lack of salt on his fries, he followed me home to my Mom's basement.

You're clearly a fraud. Any self-respecting mother of a basement dweller would never expect her adult son to work.

I guess he'll have some time for moonlighting again  

 

For the amount of advertising revenue Bell Media (TSN) pulls in for CFL games & teams just get $5.5 million each all the bullshit with the (lack of) quality broadcasts & the god damned exclusive rights they have, it just isn't worth for what the CFL gets back.

Legendary voice.

Will miss the 🐐

On 2021-11-10 at 12:53 AM, 17to85 said:

Kelly brought it on himself after he pitched a fit hearing Bob and Doug rightly call out the piss poor Bomber effort 

Doug was still a player.

9 hours ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

Doug was still a player.

Kelly had that legendary post game interview with Bob & Mitch Zalnasky where he was downright nasty to them both after a loss in Montreal. That was the beginning of the end for Mike Kelly. If a coach is angry at Bob Irving then it's time to go as Bob will find positives even in a Bomber loss. Then the rudeness to callers Kelly would show on The Coach's Show to the point they stopped having callers talking to him. Yeah, most questions from fans are stupid but as the face of the team Kelly never showed any decorum & spit venom whenever he could. He sure wore out his welcome in just one season.

Edited November 11, 20214 yr by SpeedFlex27

29 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Kelly had that legendary post game interview with Bob & Mitch Zalnasky where he was downright nasty to them both after a loss in Montreal. That was the beginning of the end for Mike Kelly. If a coach is angry at Bob Irving then it's time to go as Bob will find positives even in a Bomber loss. Then the rudeness to callers Kelly would show on The Coach's Show to the point they stopped having callers talking to him. Yeah, most questions from fans are stupid but as the face of the team Kelly never showed any decorum & spit venom whenever he could. He sure wore out his welcome in just one season.

Kelly had some serious anger management issues.  He would go from zero to 100 very quickly.  That was a problem.  And I agree, when he called Bob Irving's questions "bullshit" on live radio that was pretty much the end.  You don't talk to Bob like that.  Even Putin wouldn't have done that lol...

20 minutes ago, Rich said:

I think he was going thru a rough period in his life. Under lots of pressure as the Bomber HC made it worse & he snapped. I think we need to walk in another man's shoes before we judge others & show a little compassion. 

1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Kelly had that legendary post game interview with Bob & Mitch Zalnasky where he was downright nasty to them both after a loss in Montreal. That was the beginning of the end for Mike Kelly. If a coach is angry at Bob Irving then it's time to go as Bob will find positives even in a Bomber loss. Then the rudeness to callers Kelly would show on The Coach's Show to the point they stopped having callers talking to him. Yeah, most questions from fans are stupid but as the face of the team Kelly never showed any decorum & spit venom whenever he could. He sure wore out his welcome in just one season.

 

17 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

I think he was going thru a rough period in his life. Under lots of pressure as the Bomber HC made it worse & he snapped. I think we need to walk in another man's shoes before we judge others & show a little compassion. 

Yes, he was going through a rough spot.   No excuse for treating people how you illustrated in your first quoted post.   People show their true colours in tough times.  Never really an excuse for being an *******.  

He ripped the fans.

******* guy.

54 minutes ago, Geebrr said:

He ripped the fans.

******* guy.

i've ruined my memory with 2 decades of smoking the dope.

what did he say?

3 hours ago, Rich said:

 

Yes, he was going through a rough spot.   No excuse for treating people how you illustrated in your first quoted post.   People show their true colours in tough times.  Never really an excuse for being an *******.  

Yeah, agreed. He blew it. No doubt about that. 

5 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

I think he was going thru a rough period in his life. Under lots of pressure as the Bomber HC made it worse & he snapped. I think we need to walk in another man's shoes before we judge others & show a little compassion. 

Nope no compassion from me,  everyone has stress in life and it doesn't give anyone a free card to be a ****.   Maybe if he checked his ego at the door he would of had an easier go of it both in his personal and professional life.    Also a real man doesn't assault a woman.  

Edited November 12, 20214 yr by Brandon

So we all knew Bob had to go eventually. Curious if he planned for this to be his last year, or an undefeated season at home made it feel like the right time to ride into the sunset

21 minutes ago, brett_c_b said:

So we all knew Bob had to go eventually. Curious if he planned for this to be his last year, or an undefeated season at home made it feel like the right time to ride into the sunset

Bob quoted health & family reasons. He says he no longer has fun doing the games nor the energy & he knew it was time to retire. 

Edited November 12, 20214 yr by SpeedFlex27

He said he does love calling games it is everything around it. 

6 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Bob quoted health & family reasons. He says he no longer has fun doing the games nor the energy & he knew it was time to retire. 

There was a story in December 2020 in the Sun saying he planned to call one more season after the Grey Cup win and then go. The pandemic pushed his time frame back one year. This has been something planned for quite a while now. 

On 2021-11-11 at 6:40 AM, JuranBoldenRules said:

Doug was still a player.

Yeah I remembered after I posted that it wasn't just a couple years ago Kelly was here. I was hoping no one would being it up and it could slide under the radar. 

 

7 hours ago, Brandon said:

Nope no compassion from me,  everyone has stress in life and it doesn't give anyone a free card to be a ****.   Maybe if he checked his ego at the door he would of had an easier go of it both in his personal and professional life.    Also a real man doesn't assault a woman.  

Violent guys like Kelly need a lot of help but their egos and general toxicity often prevent them from getting it til they hurt someone badly or end up in jail or worse. It gets worse and worse the longer they get away with it. Kelly did eventually take counseling, but it took being arrested to do it.

6 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Bob quoted health & family reasons. He says he no longer has fun doing the games nor the energy & he knew it was time to retire. 

I’d have to listen to the interview again but I don’t think he said he wasn’t having fun

Assuming that the Bombers bring the Cup back to Winnipeg again, it would be a travesty if they do not have Bob as an integral part of the ceremonies.