Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread

[kelownabomberfan]

 

[SpeedFlex27]

13 hours ago, rebusrankin said:

Next game is a sellout. 8 in a row.

Last time we had a streak like this was in 1972. The CFL had 16 regular season games back then. The Bombers sold out 7 of their 8 regular season home games. Capacity at Winnipeg Stadium as it was called back then was 25,210. The only game that wasn't sold out was the Montreal Alouettes on a cold & very rainy (mixed with snow) late September eveningt when 22,000 fans showed up for the game. Including Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau who was in Winnipeg to meet with Premier Ed Schreyer.

Edited Saturday at 10:54 AM by SpeedFlex27

[Mark H.]

1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Last time we had a streak like this was in 1972. The CFL had 16 regular season games back then. The Bombers sold out 7 of their 8 regular season home games. Capacity at Winnipeg Stadium as it was called back then was 25,210. The only game that wasn't sold out was the Montreal Alouettes on a cold & very rainy (mixed with snow) late September eveningt when 22,000 fans showed up for the game. Including Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau who was in Winnipeg to meet with Premier Ed Schreyer.

You need to write a book 

[kelownabomberfan]

4 hours ago, Mark H. said:

You need to write a book 

A History of the Blue Bombers: Leah, Vince: Books - Amazon.ca https://share.google/L8pKJcozve1O2NpRm

 

High time this book was updated. To include 1981 - 2024. 

[Noeller]

3 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:

A History of the Blue Bombers: Leah, Vince: Books - Amazon.ca https://share.google/L8pKJcozve1O2NpRm

 

High time this book was updated. To include 1981 - 2024. 

The one Irving curated in 2005 for the 75th is good too.  But yes we need an update. 

[JohnnyAbonny]

1 hour ago, kelownabomberfan said:

A History of the Blue Bombers: Leah, Vince: Books - Amazon.ca https://share.google/L8pKJcozve1O2NpRm

 

High time this book was updated. To include 1981 - 2024. 

I have a signed copy of that book.
 

There’s also this one from 1990 but yes we need one covering then til now. 

https://shop.bisonbooks.ca/pages/books/095564/jack-matheson/blue-bombers-60-years-and-running-1930-1990

Both Leah and Matheson were before my time but from these books I can see they were damn good sportswriters. 

[kelownabomberfan]

6 minutes ago, JohnnyAbonny said:

I have a signed copy of that book.
 

There’s also this one from 1990 but yes we need one covering then til now. 

https://shop.bisonbooks.ca/pages/books/095564/jack-matheson/blue-bombers-60-years-and-running-1930-1990

Both Leah and Matheson were before my time but from these books I can see they were damn good sportswriters. 

If there never was a Vince Leah, we'd never have the "Blue Bombers".

[SpeedFlex27]

8 hours ago, Mark H. said:

You need to write a book 

I appreciate your support of my CFL History group page on Facebook. Not to be mistaken for the copycat Canadian Football History page started by someone else. 

[SpeedFlex27]

2 hours ago, kelownabomberfan said:

If there never was a Vince Leah, we'd never have the "Blue Bombers".

They'd be the Winnipeg Winnipegs. 

[SpeedFlex27]

I know we're a bit off topic here but the Bombers had a true hero play for them in the 1930's. His name was Jeff Nicklin. He was from Fort William, Ontario but moved to Winnipeg. He grew up in Lord Roberts &  lived on Rathgar Avenue. He got married  at St. Albans Anglican Church in Lord Roberts. He enlisted in the Army in 1940 & trained to be a paratrooper.

I grew up on the other side of Osborne Street in Riverview so I'm proud knowing that Nicklin who heroically sacrificed everything for this country lived in the same area where I grew up. 

The Jeff Nicklin Trophy is given to the Western Division's MOP. Last year, Brady Oliveira won it. If you don't know who Jeff Nicklin was then please read this. 

https://westenddumplings.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-greatest-blue-bomber-youve-never.html

 

Edited Saturday at 09:24 PM by SpeedFlex27

[rebusrankin]

1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

I appreciate your support of my CFL History group page on Facebook. Not to be mistaken for the copycat Canadian Football History page started by someone else. 

Can you send me that group name via pm? Thank you.

[JohnnyAbonny]

That group is one of the main reasons I even go on FB anymore. Top notch. 

[SpeedFlex27]

1 hour ago, JohnnyAbonny said:

That group is one of the main reasons I even go on FB anymore. Top notch. 

Wow, thank you. 

5 hours ago, rebusrankin said:

Can you send me that group name via pm? Thank you.

Done...

[kelownabomberfan]

22 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

They'd be the Winnipeg Winnipegs. 

Since Ben Hatskin was playing for the Bombers at that time if Vince Leah didn't exist, Benny probably have started the tradition of New York team names back in the 30's instead of waiting to name the hockey team "Jets" in 1967- we'd be the Winnipeg Blue Yankees or Winnipeg Giant Dodgers lol....

Edited 6 hours ago by kelownabomberfan

[Fatty Liver]

30 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:

Since Ben Hatskin was playing for the Bombers at that time if Vince Leah didn't exist, Benny probably have started the tradition of New York team names back in the 30's instead of waiting to name the hockey team "Jets" in 1967- we'd be the Winnipeg Blue Yankees or Winnipeg Giant Dodgers lol....

Thought the Jets were named in reference to the RCAF base in St. James?

[kelownabomberfan]

15 minutes ago, Fatty Liver said:

Thought the Jets were named in reference to the RCAF base in St. James?

I thought it was due to the popularity of the New York Jets at that time due to Joe Namath.

[wbbfan]

2 hours ago, kelownabomberfan said:

Since Ben Hatskin was playing for the Bombers at that time if Vince Leah didn't exist, Benny probably have started the tradition of New York team names back in the 30's instead of waiting to name the hockey team "Jets" in 1967- we'd be the Winnipeg Blue Yankees or Winnipeg Giant Dodgers lol....

I kind of like the ring of giant dodgers… it’d be great for a basketball team. 
 

1 hour ago, kelownabomberfan said:

I thought it was due to the popularity of the New York Jets at that time due to Joe Namath.

I believe officially it was a combination of honouring the rcaf, Winnipeg’s aviation history, and the ny jets. 

[SpeedFlex27]

1 hour ago, Fatty Liver said:

Thought the Jets were named in reference to the RCAF base in St. James?

No, Ben Hatskin & Sonny Werblin, the owner of the New York Jets were business acqaintances & friends. When he secured a team in the Westrn canada Hockey League, he named the team the Jets in honour of Werblin's AFL team. When he later sold the Junior Jets, he bought into the WHA with a franchise in 1971 & called them the Jets as well. Again, to honour Werblin. 

Just an aside but in the 1950's my dad knew Ben Hatskin as well through business. Both men raced cars. My dad owned an Auto Body shop on Marion Street right beside the Norwood Hotel. It was there for 36 years from 1946-82. My father built a race car. Hatskin also owned a car as well & they raced against one another. Both my dad & Hatskin hired professional drivers to race their cars.