Bombers at REDBLACKS early chat

[17to85]

You're only as old as you feel.... awwww crap...

[Booch]

4 hours ago, Stickem said:

.......I just turned 80 on June 29th......us boomers are getting a little long in the tooth...BUT I think hanging around on this site helps keep me youthful....Seen many cycles of ups and downs with the BigBlue ....As  far as the wins and losses column ...it sure as heck great when we win ...when we lose I get a little dejected but recover quickly and hope to see some light at the end of the tunnel the next game....and just keep on keepin on

I'm just a smidgen over 50...I'll make sure to keep posters riled up for you old souls to keep ya young 😁

 

2 hours ago, bigg jay said:

I used to believe that but I haven't seen anything recently that gives me that confidence. 

Unlike MOS thinking he still has 2019 Strevy, I don't believe we have the 2019 Trinity.

They got fat and sassy and lost their edge

 

1 hour ago, rebusrankin said:

My takeaway is that at 48, I am a young gun.

Guess im a wiley vet

 

[Super Duper Negatron]

Shitting your pants repeatedly isn't limited to just the octogenarians. Am I right Hogan?

[SpeedFlex27]

2 hours ago, Piggy 1 said:

This guy does not like Freisen, and who can blame him?

This guy will be a HC in this league ,and I wouldnt mind if it was here. 

Why? What has he done? Given us the worst DL in the CFL in a decade? Playing Osh's favourites? 

Edited 17 hours ago by SpeedFlex27

[SpeedFlex27]

1 hour ago, Mike said:

Also congratulations to our senior members who, despite apparently being fortunate that they’re not shitting themselves, can still formulate a better sentence than some of us young guys around here 

I'm juat grateful to remember where the bathroom is & fortunate enough to make it. 

[rebusrankin]

Getting old beats the alternative.

Edited 17 hours ago by rebusrankin

[Bigblue204]

1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Why? What has he done? Given us the worst DL in the CFL in a decade? Playing Osh's favourites? 

This Defense can be a part of a +.500 club. Im not a fan of how the Dline is setup/used....but hes making Chicken liver out of chicken ****.

[Gail]

3 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

I'm juat grateful to remember where the bathroom is & fortunate enough to make it. 

Rules for seniors:  Don’t pass a bathroom, don’t waste a hard on and don’t trust a fart.

[HardCoreBlue]

7 hours ago, Gail said:

Rules for seniors:  Don’t pass a bathroom, don’t waste a hard on and don’t trust a fart.

You’re not your age, you’re your energy.

I like this saying cuz your energy varies, sometimes day to day.

[rebusrankin]

So will they go with 3 American olineman?

Parker for Griffin?

Echols for Mitchell?

[17to85]

1 hour ago, rebusrankin said:

So will they go with 3 American olineman?

Parker for Griffin?

Echols for Mitchell?

Either way, reactions will be...

[Tracker]

At 79, I am afraid to go into antique stores for fear they may not let me leave. And I get annoyed when they change the supermarket layout. Damned kids.

[Goalie]

15 hours ago, Mike said:

Also congratulations to our senior members who, despite apparently being fortunate that they’re not shitting themselves, can still formulate a better sentence than some of us young guys around here 

Who gives a crap about sentence structure. Nobody is a novelist or author here. It’s like math, we take all that math in school to never use it in adulthood.  Don’t need sentence structure to drive a train or build a house or play sports. School was actually a big waste. College = good but prior = waste. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Goalie

[TBURGESS]

Gotta hate those farts that come with a side of gravy. 

[Super Duper Negatron]

2 minutes ago, TBURGESS said:

Gotta hate those farts that come with a side of gravy. 

[rebusrankin]

34 minutes ago, Goalie said:

Who gives a crap about sentence structure. Nobody is a novelist or author here. It’s like math, we take all that math in school to never use it in adulthood.  Don’t need sentence structure to drive a train or build a house or play sports. School was actually a big waste. College = good but prior = waste. 

Sentence structure is helpful to be able to function in society at a basic level. So is learning math. For that matter, so is learning punctuation. As well, if its lacking people may make assumptions about one's intellect, although sometimes one's comments reveal a lot about that.

[Goalie]

I’m paying for my internet with my cash money at my house so I figure…. What the heck. Simple as that. I could go all caps like they do on the x or truth social platforms. But that gimmick was taken. 

[Booch]

15 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

Sentence structure is helpful to be able to function in society at a basic level. So is learning math. For that matter, so is learning punctuation. As well, if its lacking people may make assumptions about one's intellect, although sometimes one's comments reveal a lot about that.

Actually....I do have to use math in Engineering....and I hate math...go figure

[bearpants]

On 2025-09-16 at 12:58 PM, HardCoreBlue said:

Just to stir the pot and make it more unbearable for some around here, for arguments sake and discussion purposes, if ZC is a no go,  Strev gets the nod to start at, let's say he's at 60/70% health because that will put us in a better spot to be successful than TW at 100% health. TW is going to back up CS against the RedBlacks and the only way TW gets into the game is short yardage and if CS gets hurt and can't return. If our offense falters with Strev at the helm and we don't employ TW because CS deserves to be out there because he's earned, he's earned the loyalty for him to work thru adversity plus he wasn't getting the support he needed plus it's been determined TW is not serviceable enough to run our offense and we lose our 4th straight game we are to look away from this not discuss the QB situation because it's just reality it's the best we have it's off limits and focus our energy on (fill in the blank). Yes?

Oh and I hope CS lights it up, our oline crushes their dline BO gets 200 yards rushing our receivers have a hay day with their db's, our D plays lights out, our DB's and LB's clamp things down JT getting three sacks WJ with five knock downs and we win by a 100.

Maybe I'm missing the tone of this post but to the first bolded point... how do you know that?... I'm not saying Wilson is the next CFL superstar... but at this point, we have no idea what he is... could, at the very least, be an upgrade from Streveler...

Second bolded... we all hope for that every game... it just seems to happen less and less these days...

[Booch]

1 minute ago, bearpants said:

Maybe I'm missing the tone of this post but to the first bolded point... how do you know that?... I'm not saying Wilson is the next CFL superstar... but at this point, we have no idea what he is... could, at the very least, be an upgrade from Streveler...

Second bolded... we all hope for that every game... it just seems to happen less and less these days...

Consider that Brown's first yr...even 2 more times than not looked lost...panicked and not really a viable option...yr 3 is when he actually looked like he had something....

[17to85]

10 minutes ago, Booch said:

Actually....I do have to use math in Engineering....and I hate math...go figure

Engineering is math... engineers are nothing more than calculators. 

[HardCoreBlue]

3 minutes ago, bearpants said:

Maybe I'm missing the tone of this post but to the first bolded point... how do you know that?... I'm not saying Wilson is the next CFL superstar... but at this point, we have no idea what he is... could, at the very least, be an upgrade from Streveler...

Second bolded... we all hope for that every game... it just seems to happen less and less these days...

Purely a guess, a hypothetical based on history. Mainly i’m just curious in the reluctance to give TW some reps in a real game considering ZC injury and CS play seems to be challenged of late. If it’s the case that there is no confidence in TW to lead our offence when our #1 and our #2 aren’t in a position/chsllenged to do it then we might want to move him to the pr at the very least and get a body in that you would be comfortable in putting him on. 

[johnzo]

4 minutes ago, Booch said:

Consider that Brown's first yr...even 2 more times than not looked lost...panicked and not really a viable option...yr 3 is when he actually looked like he had something....

the funny thing about Brown's progression is that he turned the corner without a lot of game reps.  Most of his development must have happened in practice -- but I see the assertion here that practice reps aren't really great at preparing new players for the CFL.

[Stickem]

2 hours ago, Tracker said:

At 79, I am afraid to go into antique stores for fear they may not let me leave. And I get annoyed when they change the supermarket layout. Damned kids.

......antique stores....my second home....I never buy much but everything on the shelves reminds me of the distant past....Found a relic of days gone by the other day....thought it was quite novel till my wife said we already have one.....Didn't remember buying it and said to myself....uh oh

To everyone on here who have posted some great sentiments...'you too, one day, will enter the world I and a few others on here are a part of'... till then don't ever give up the ship, keep the course and above all don't listen to those gawdamned rider fans..... 

[bearpants]

27 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Purely a guess, a hypothetical based on history. Mainly i’m just curious in the reluctance to give TW some reps in a real game considering ZC injury and CS play seems to be challenged of late. If it’s the case that there is no confidence in TW to lead our offence when our #1 and our #2 aren’t in a position/chsllenged to do it then we might want to move him to the pr at the very least and get a body in that you would be comfortable in putting him on. 

I guess the question would be... is he not playing because they don't trust him or are they too loyal to the existing players?... if it's the former, why is he even here?... if it's the latter... that's a good way for a coach to lose his job