With Rookie Camps getting underway Wednesday, it's time to talk about the 2026 CFL season!

2 hours ago, 17to85 said:

Everything needs to be a reel on "the socials" these days. It's not my style but I get it.

I don't. These award winners deserve to be recognized. Great example of how NOT to promote your league to Canadians. It looks bush league & it is. Why can't they have an awards dinner like they've had since 1953 when the first Schenley Award for MOP was given to Billy Vessels? Then go on social media as well. Market the league & the players. What the CFL did this year is pitiful. Is the Commissioner even going to show up Grey Cup Week??

1 hour ago, WinnipegGordo said:

Yeah, the CFL just get their marketing ideas from other leagues.

as an old guy who loves the league and reflexively rejects change ... I have to admit that the Luke Willson watch party for the ESF was a welcome breathe of fresh air ... like watching a game with a pal who really really knows football. The burying-the-hatchet segment with Knuckles was a great conclusion to Knuckles vs. Willson storyline.

I would love to see a game with both Lapo and Willson doing color. Lapo is great at explaining passing concepts and Willson is great at talking about the player techniques that make or break a play, especially in blocking. During the ESF he crawled up someone's ass for blocking against the flow on a zone run, which is apparently a no-no. TIL!

13 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

The most hotly contested award surely is most curmudgeonly poster....

Our rookie poster of the year award will have a weird vibe to it, given that everyone here is like 75 years old.

The Hurl Award for MBB Lightning Rod of the Year is gonna be hotly contested. Concoran, Kelly, Ellsbury?

Also I pronounce Jamieson Sheahan as the first annual winner of the Sheahan Award For Ex-Lightning Rods because people don't seem to ***** about him anymore.

50 minutes ago, johnzo said:

as an old guy who loves the league and reflexively rejects change ... I have to admit that the Luke Willson watch party for the ESF was a welcome breathe of fresh air ... like watching a game with a pal who really really knows football. The burying-the-hatchet segment with Knuckles was a great conclusion to Knuckles vs. Willson storyline.

I would love to see a game with both Lapo and Willson doing color. Lapo is great at explaining passing concepts and Willson is great at talking about the player techniques that make or break a play, especially in blocking. During the ESF he crawled up someone's ass for blocking against the flow on a zone run, which is apparently a no-no. TIL!

Our rookie poster of the year award will have a weird vibe to it, given that everyone here is like 75 years old.

I'm 71. Lol.

2 hours ago, johnzo said:

The Hurl Award for MBB Lightning Rod of the Year is gonna be hotly contested. Concoran, Kelly, Ellsbury?

Also I pronounce Jamieson Sheahan as the first annual winner of the Sheahan Award For Ex-Lightning Rods because people don't seem to ***** about him anymore.

Here’s my list.

No3, every canadian wr not named demski.

no2 elsbury

dis-Honourable mention, nichols and moxey.

No1, is kelly.

Sheahan cleaned up the shanks and we got less conservative with depth vs hang time and it’s worked well

How is the number 1 Lightning Rod not automatically Osh, around these parts at least....??

Who is going to be Vice President of standing around? (a Nasty Nate classic)