Press conference announcing details around the Grey Cup Festival for this year:

 

 

On 2025-03-22 at 9:09 AM, HardCoreBlue said:

Last year I asked myself, is there a rule that a half time show has to be music?

Go off the charts and bring in a high end comedian who does a set on football. 🙂

Bob Nelson, the football bit starts 2 minutes in, but worth watching Rodney do the intro, sure do miss him.

 

Its going back to the 90s but how about a Robin Sparkles comeback show. Imagine the whole stadium singing Let's go to the Mall.

1 hour ago, Fatty Liver said:

Bob Nelson, the football bit starts 2 minutes in, but worth watching Rodney do the intro, sure do miss him.

 

George Carlin had a great bit comparing baseball to football.

 

 

2 hours ago, rebusrankin said:

Its going back to the 90s but how about a Robin Sparkles comeback show. Imagine the whole stadium singing Let's go to the Mall.

She hasn't been sparkles in years.... She became Robin Daggers on the day that grunge was born, at the 1996 Grey Cup half time show in Hamilton....... Everyone knows which Tim Hortons they were in that day.

Blueberry Fritter.... Winnipeg, Manitoba. 

2 minutes ago, Noeller said:

She hasn't been sparkles in years.... She became Robin Daggers on the day that grunge was born, at the 1996 Grey Cup half time show in Hamilton....... Everyone knows which Tim Hortons they were in that day.

Blueberry Fritter.... Winnipeg, Manitoba. 

Strawberry Vanilla, Liverpool & Bayly in Pickering.

7 minutes ago, Noeller said:

She hasn't been sparkles in years.... She became Robin Daggers on the day that grunge was born, at the 1996 Grey Cup half time show in Hamilton....... Everyone knows which Tim Hortons they were in that day.

Blueberry Fritter.... Winnipeg, Manitoba. 

How could I forget?

Boston Creme, Winnipeg Manitoba.

Why not go old school and go Fred Penner. I’ve seen him in the hood recently as his son lives near by. 

15 hours ago, WinnipegGordo said:

Drake or the Weeknd would create some buzz.

I feel like drake would be some what divisive due to the Kendrick Lamar stuff but that might put him into a more gettable spot. I’m not a drake fan but I think he’d be a lot better than what we are likely to get.
 

7 hours ago, Booch said:

tho Fozzy itself isnt Canadian...Jericho is...and Winnipegger to boot.....thats my kind of music tho half people here prob have no clue....Bring him in for pre-game concert....

That’d be great. Maybe make him a master of ceremonies type deal. His chops on the mic are fantastic he could do a lot to drum up hype.  

5 hours ago, Goalie said:

Taylor Swift should do it. She’s a fan of the old spaghetti factory. Jericho is way too fat now and gone mentally, it would be bad. However if he was there as part of a Manitoba or Winnipeg born kinda grey cup act with like i dunno, cfl so let’s say watchmen crashtest dummies and oh I dunno, Neil young or something. 

I feel dummies might be too niche. One hit wonder from what 25 years ago? Great guys though. 
 I thought about young, I doubt he’d do it. Personally I’d love that though. 
 

Headstones will always be my no1 pick lol. 
 I wonder if they go back to the guess who well again? 

Fred Penner did half time recently and it rocked. Whole stadium singing along to the cat came back.

2 hours ago, rebusrankin said:

Fred Penner did half time recently and it rocked. Whole stadium singing along to the cat came back.

Except this time it'll be "the Thomas came back."

I'm leaving now.

So I'm the only one who listened to Sandcastles in the Sand and cried after each of the last three Grey Cups?

2 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

So I'm the only one who listened to Sandcastles in the Sand and cried after each of the last three Grey Cups?

Blowin' in the Wind, man. "How many times will the Argo flags fly?"

14 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

So I'm the only one who listened to Sandcastles in the Sand and cried after each of the last three Grey Cups?

It's good enough for Luc Robitaille, it's good enough for me....

Arkells shall rise triumphant

11 hours ago, Pete Catan's Ghost said:

Arkells shall rise triumphant

They'd be Hamilton's only GC representation this millenium.

19 hours ago, Noeller said:

She hasn't been sparkles in years.... She became Robin Daggers on the day that grunge was born, at the 1996 Grey Cup half time show in Hamilton....... Everyone knows which Tim Hortons they were in that day.

Blueberry Fritter.... Winnipeg, Manitoba. 

The Priestley, Brandon, MB. highway #1 location. 

Edited March 25, 2025Mar 25 by TrueBlue4ever

12 minutes ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

The Priestley, Brandon, MB. highway #1 location. 

Should have been the happiest day of your life

Just took a peek at the Canadian rock charts to see what the kids are listening to these days. Turns out they are listening to literally the exact same bands that I was.

 

https://ca.billboard.com/charts/canada-mainstream-rock

 

That is simultaneously comforting and depressing. It likely means kids aren't listening to rock at all.

2 hours ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

Just took a peek at the Canadian rock charts to see what the kids are listening to these days. Turns out they are listening to literally the exact same bands that I was.

 

https://ca.billboard.com/charts/canada-mainstream-rock

 

That is simultaneously comforting and depressing. It likely means kids aren't listening to rock at all.

I can absolutely yell you that the 70s-90s Rock format is massive right now because there hasn't been a lot of good rock the last 30 years. There is the odd band that gets popular but it's just not like it once was. For whatever reason there is more money to be made in Country, so even the Rock artists go there. 

2 hours ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

Just took a peek at the Canadian rock charts to see what the kids are listening to these days. Turns out they are listening to literally the exact same bands that I was.

 

https://ca.billboard.com/charts/canada-mainstream-rock

 

That is simultaneously comforting and depressing. It likely means kids aren't listening to rock at all.

Old man moment, I know some of those bands. I'm more with it than I thought.

22 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

Old man moment, I know some of those bands. I'm more with it than I thought.

They have yet to change what "it" is, apparently, at least when it comes to rock.

Edited March 25, 2025Mar 25 by Super Duper Negatron

5 hours ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

Just took a peek at the Canadian rock charts to see what the kids are listening to these days. Turns out they are listening to literally the exact same bands that I was.

 

https://ca.billboard.com/charts/canada-mainstream-rock

 

That is simultaneously comforting and depressing. It likely means kids aren't listening to rock at all.

There is no rock anymore. Ppl don’t even play instruments unless auto tune is an instrument. Rock and comedy. RIP. 

Edited March 25, 2025Mar 25 by Goalie

11 minutes ago, Goalie said:

There is no rock anymore. Ppl don’t even play instruments unless auto tune is an instrument. Rock and comedy. RIP. 

Everything from rock to metal is so compartmentalized that it's buried and stands alone. Rock exists; it just isn't particularly mainstream (it's always come and gone in waves) right now. 

 More than auto tune, the level of technical mixing and production polish that goes into albums now has every thing feel far more poppy. Unless it is a literal garage band that you don't hear the gritty sounds any more. even though that really dominated the sound of 90s rock/metal etc. 

You really have to work and search to find bands in those kinds of niche now. 

20 hours ago, Goalie said:

There is no rock anymore. Ppl don’t even play instruments unless auto tune is an instrument. Rock and comedy. RIP. 

Comedy??

Me sitting here with tickets for a dozen rock concerts and comedy shows in 2025 and it's only March