Everything posted by SpeedFlex27
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2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News
Just an aside but former CTV sportscaster Peter Young in his online commentary today Just A Minute said he'd heard the Elks are valued at $11 million but the Directors want $20 million for the team. So, we'll see.
- General Hobbyist Thread
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General Hobbyist Thread
MY Mother & father grew up on their farms in Manitoba. Neither of them were excited about gardening but man, could they ever grow things in our very large backyard in the 50's & 60's. There was dill, green onions, tomatoes, carrots, beets, radishes, lettuce, cabbage, corn & potatoes. We had flowers around the house & in a flower bed out front. My Dad planted three crabapple trees in the yard & they gave us fruit for years. Either crabapple pie, jam or wine for my parents or guests (but not me). I loved to eat those crabapples right off the branch. I'd usually stuff my pockets if I was leaving the house. Great memories. then they got into their mid 50's & they decided to stop & my father sodded the back yard.
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2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News
There is talk about building a new 30,000 seat stadium for both the Elks & Edmonton's Canadian Soccer League team. It would require government money to get it done. I just shake my head thinking they'd actually tear CWS down. Couldn't they renovate it? Reduce capacity to it's original 40,000? Fix the concourses, washrooms & concessions areas to bring it up to modern standards? Add more private suites. I'm not a civil engineer so I don't know if that is possible. However, it's almost 50 years old. So, maybe it is time to get rid of it. The demolition cost would be a pretty hefty bill all on its own. I think it tells you about the tale of 2 cities if Edmonton built a new stadium for the Elks while in Calgary, the Stampeders are still stuck in that shithole of a facility called McMahon Stadium because the politicians down here just don't give a **** about the CFL.
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2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News
It'd be a bigger blow if they ceased operations. Every team in the West used to be community owned.
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2023/2024 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread (BRADY’S BACK! DALTON’S BACK!)
I'd like to see Jim Barker do a mock draft. At least he knows the players & could probably do a very good job but it's TSN so it'll never happen. Instead we have Hodge.
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Dru Brown
You have no clue. You can stick to your ideology like some feckless zealot while ignoring the facts. The Edmonton Eskimos finished first in a very tough Western Division where a 9-7 Rider team didn't make the playoffs in the West while a 3-13 Montreal team did in the East. The Rough Riders at 5-11 had the the worst record of any team to ever play in the history of the Grey Cup. The Esks should have blown the doors off of Exhibition Stadium in Toronto with Ottawa yet instead got their asses handed to them in the first half. The Rough Riders had a 20-1 halftime lead over the Esks. The Esks charged back scoring two touchdowns in the third quarter & 11 more points in the fourth while the Rough Riders scored only a FG in the second half. It was a Dave Cutler FG with only 3 seconds left that gave Edmonton a 26-23 win. So, do I think the Saskatchewan Roughriders could have beaten them that day had they made it to the GC? Yeah, damned right I do. Marino's no afterthought. Go have another drink.
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General Hobbyist Thread
Oh yeah, I had another hobby before I had to stop coaching football with my arthritis, which I did for 15 years. Won a five of 6 city of Calgary football championships & four provincial titles coaching pee wee (10-12) bantam (13-15) & spring league (15-17). I was a HC for 1 city & provincial win at the pee wee level. I also founded a bantam team in Calgary called the Falcons in 2005. I was given 6 footballs by the league & that was it. I built the team from the ground up, had to buy equipment, find a practice facility & was also the HC. Recruited my coaches, manager, treasurer & started in January 05. We played our first game in August. Out of 8 games we won 4 but misssed the playoffs. Other teams thought we'd be a pushover but we weren't. We could run & throw. Our defense had some players that became All Stars. It was so much fun but a ton of work. I now sit as a Board of Director of the SE Calgary Colts. Love what I'm doing as I can still contribute to our organization in a positive light as well as still be associated with football in some way.
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2023/2024 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread (BRADY’S BACK! DALTON’S BACK!)
The difference is we don't go online with our comments other than here. There are too many fanbois masquerading as actual football journalists at 3DN. It hurts their credibility. They could easily have better writers giving us better content but obviously don't want to pay for it. So, you have guys like Hodge & Ryan Ballantyne doing pieces for them. You get what you pay for.
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2023/2024 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread (BRADY’S BACK! DALTON’S BACK!)
The CFL no longer plays full time fullbacks, neck rolls, snot busting blockers, three yards & a cloud of dust who rush for 225 yards along with a 2.3 yard rushing average & you have to take out a slot. Maybe a potential thousand yard receiver. That's why the CFL no longer has full time fullbacks. No more Thunder & Lightning combos anymore.
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2023/2024 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread (BRADY’S BACK! DALTON’S BACK!)
I know. We're just saying he was drafted as a DL. That he was able to play other positions is a testament to his athletic abilities. But he wasn't a true fullback. Or drafted as one.
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Curling
Everybody kinda figured it was something like this. This anti doping **** is getting crazy, if you ask me.
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2023/2024 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread (BRADY’S BACK! DALTON’S BACK!)
Yeah, he never played fullback full time.
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Dru Brown
Whatever. The Western Conference was very, very strong in 1981. The Esks finished 14-1-1 for first place, The Bombers went 11-5 & finished second. The Lions 10-6 finishing third & the Riders at 9-7 finished fourth in the West. Combined, the West won 50 regular season games that year & the East just 21. In 1981, the Montreal Alouettes finished third in the East & made the playoffs with an abysmal 3-13 record. How freaking embarrassing for the CFL was that? The league's credibility was called into question. The Riders won 6 more games than the Als & were fourth in the West yet didn't qualify for the playoffs because there was no crossover. I remember fans & media crying how things needed to change. However, in typical CFL fashion, I remember the league getting right on it by taking another 16 years before it would allow crossovers in the playoffs beginning in 1997. What happened to the Riders was a travesty. I'm just glad the Bombers never experienced anything close to that back then. Chances are had there been a crossover, the Riders would have been the Eastern representative in the Grey Cup. Who knows, maybe they would have upset the Eskimos as they barely beat the 5-11 Ottawa Rough Riders that year. But sure, it was the Riders quarterbacking. It was just average. They didn't win.
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Dru Brown
Like I said, 4600 yards & 33 touchdown passes are better than just okay. If they did that with the Bombers you'd be crowing over their performance.
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General Hobbyist Thread
I used to do a lot more physical stuff when I was younger. Until arthritis caught up with me as did surgeries in my right shoulder, both knees & both feet took away just about everything I used to do. Like a lot of fishing in the White Shell, Lake Of The Woods, Quesnel Lake at Caribou Lodge east of Bissett, MB (we just called it Caribou Lake back in the day), along the Winnipeg River at Pointe Du Bois & the Lake Manitoba Narrows. Then I moved to Calgary in 1990 & that was it for fishing for me. I never got into fly fishing. Used to do a lot of curling in Manitoba at the Fort Rouge Curling Club. Curled here in Calgary at the Calgary Curling Club until I physically couldn't do it anymore because of arthrtitis. I haven't thrown a rock since 2009. Golf same. Not for at least 20 years. I loved to golf, fish & curl. I also used to run but that ******* arthritis took running from me too. I do have some CFL collectibles. I'm trying to collect more much to my wife's angst as she keeps telling me I'm too old to do that we must downsize because once she retires in 4 years she wants to sell the house & buy a condo...
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2023/2024 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread (BRADY’S BACK! DALTON’S BACK!)
Amazing two years ago we had no idea who dalton Schoen on. Just think about that. Such a dynamic receiver.
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The TV Thread
Do you watch Fire Country? It does nothing fo me...
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Dru Brown
Ni idea why you'd take offense to what I say but it seems you need a Snickers way more than me. Hufnagel & Barnes had a helluva season in 81. They truly were one of the gretest tandems to ever play. Why all the angst? Like I said, the CFL was so abuzz about their play that they were given a nickname J.J. Barnagel by someone in the media & the name stuck.. Think that would happen if they stunk? It's not always the qbs fault when they lose. The Rider defense wasn't up to par so they gave up a lot of points. With the Bomber tandem, Clements played 75% of the time with Huff coming in for the other 25%. In saskatchewan, Hufnagel played 60% of the time & Joe Barnes about 40%. So you can't even compare the two tandems. In Saskatchewan, both guys played a lot & played well.
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Curling
Agreed. It isn't a better system. There's no way as many people are watching the BRier like they were ten years ago. If they were, then they wouldn't be playing in venues that are 40% of the size they played in during the 90's-10's. It shows the system is broken. Who wants to see four teams from one province if you don't live in that province??? Wearing different colours than the traditional provincial sweaters as well. It's become a mish mash.