TBURGESS

It's a good comparison that you simply don't agree with. The NFL doesn't have any problems selling their championship game even tho it's not east vs west. I doubt the CFL would either. You might want to check who'se cereal you **** in this morning, cuz I didn't have cereal.

Party drugs and late hits are not the same as PED's. 3 out of 5 voters stopped Harris from getting the teams nomination. None of them are judge, jury and executioner alone. Maybe that matches the general populations opinion on taking PED's. Maybe not. Players take suppliments for the same reason as they take PED's. To get an advantage. Even if that advantage is not real like coloured tape or coloured horse collers or small amounts of a banned substance, most players will take a chance on whatever they think gives them an advantage. They likely tell themselves that everyone else is doing it so they need to do it too to be equal. It's the players responsibility to know what's in all suppliments they take. If the player doesn't know and the manufacturer won't or can't tell him, then he can't take the supplement without taking the risk of testing positive. Harris took the risk and this is the result.

Good question. I remember reading somewhere that there is some type of mulligan clause, but I can't remember exactly how it works.

Then he gets the awards, assuming he doesn't fail another PED test.

You may not agree with the media on this one, but you don't get a vote, they do and they made their choices. Shocks me, but I completely understand their side of the argument too. Get caught = No awards for you (Ala soup Nazi). Maybe it should be in the next CFL agreement.

So your argument is "We've always done it this way, so we have to continue to do it this way. If we don't... problems.". The only reason you don't want to compare the NFL to the CFL is because it doesn't work for your argument.

This shocks me. I fully expected the national media not to pick Harris, but I didn't expect he wouldn't be the team/Winnipeg Media choice.

That's likely true, but in any case, you'd lose another import by designating Streveler as anything other than a QB.

Streveler is designated as a QB. If designate him as something other than a QB, he becomes a DI or a Import starter and you lose a different import from the team. You'd then have 2 designated QB's instead of 3.

They still need to win to get a home playoff game, so I doubt it changes their roster or their interest in winning the game.

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With our NI group, the first round pick doesn't mean as much to us as a starting QB. In fact, it doesn't mean as much as a starting QB to Toronto or Ottawa either.

He's gonna be bummed before that, when Burnham takes the West MOP.

The NFL doesn't do East/West. Doesn't hurt the Superbowl ratings.

I doubt the Grey Cup ratings go down if the two best teams in the league are battling it out, even if they are both from the West or the East for that matter.

On Calgary's D, all eyes will be on Harris.

Arbuckle - Young with tons of upside. Looked great in Calgary's offence. Question is, will he look as good in another teams offence. Streveler - Young with a bunch of upside. Needs to learn to read defences quicker. Masoli - Expensive. Coming off a non-contact injury. Nichols - Average at best. Coming off of an injury to his throwing shoulder. Colaros - Was good 4 years ago. Huge concussion issues.

Still ignoring the level of competition Nichols faced I see.

Arbuckle/Streveler. I'm not interested in taking another chance on a journeyman QB coming off an injury on his throwing shoulder.

There is no trying... just work or don't work. If the rules don't work, then they aren't protecting them anyway.

Using this years (ATM) Standings Ticats Stamps Riders Bombers Als Esks Lions Argos RB's. Round 1: Ticats and Stamps get a bye Riders vs Esks Bombers vs Als Yah.. that's fair and better than the current system.

They keep changing the rules to protect the QB's, yet QB's keep getting hurt. Almost like the rule changes aren't helping.

I agree that sometimes the obvious answer is the right one, but Nichols going down isn't the obvious answer. The obvious answer is we played bad teams in the first half of the year. Now that we're playing better teams, our offence and defence are getting exposed for who they really are.

I'd vote for Burhnam for MOP. He's been absolutely amazing this year.

Kinda sad that folks are hoping the weather stops them because they don't think our team can stop them.