Everything posted by BBlink
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Grey Cup Fan Base
As someone who has paid for most of his season ticket for this year and can use the credit.... Sold. I've already signed up. If it was 400 dollars that wasn't spoken for it would be a more difficult conversation
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Diversionary Topic of the Week: My First Blue Bomber Memory
Honestly, I wasn't a die-hard fan of the team until probably the early 2000s. But I do remember having a whole bunch of Blue Bomber posters in my bedroom growing up. I can't remember where they came from but they were all the same size and style. Each one had a player on it, except for a couple special ones that were team photos, mascots, cheerleaders. But they were all the same style so they must have all come from some sort of promotion. For all I know I could be completely mis-remembering this as I was pretty young. But that would be my first memory. The other memory that could qualify for "first memory"...I still kind of remember Darryl Sampson coming to our church one time and speaking. I don't know if I actually did meet him or not. I think I did. I just remember people talking about it.
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Favourite and least favourite Bomber
Milt. Simply the best in so many ways. Loved watching Charles Roberts play, obviously. Andrew Harris will now always hold a special place for me. Came back to his home town and was instrumental winning the Grey Cup that had eluded us for so long. Other players on this team: Willie Jefferson, Jemarcus Hardrick. But honestly, I love them all.
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Favourite and least favourite Bomber
https://www.cfl.ca/2007/07/13/_incompleterson__healed/
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Favourite and least favourite Bomber
Doesn't count unless you make it past training camp?
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Favourite and least favourite Bomber
Jordan Reaves seems like a real piece of ****
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Least favourite non-Bomber
Davis Sanchez, Ed Philion, Adriano Belli, Richard Karikari, nearly every Roughrider that ever existed (Nick Marshall might be the worst right now). Yes, Kevin Eiben. But mostly just for that one play.
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Favourite Non Bomber
Calvillo and Lulay seem like good guys (not trolling now)
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Favourite Non Bomber
Kevin Eiben
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2019-20 Grey Cup Champs Off-season discussion.
There is a lot of sensationalist bullcrap in that article. I would count that maybe half of that holds any merit. But half of it being true isn't great for the league, either. It mentions Wade Miller running the league, and in the same breath talks about presidents not taking any paycuts. https://3downnation.com/2020/04/16/bombers-cut-payroll-wade-miller-kyle-walters-mike-oshea-included/ He mentions the Riders budget in how they bring in 30 million dollars in revenues and how they ended up losing money. Don't the Riders disclose their finances just like us? It's not like 30 million goes directly in their pockets. There are costs. The kicker was when they spent 2 million dollars on the Grey Cup that didn't happen. The margins in the CFL are fairly thin. If you're going to throw a bunch of **** out there, you might want to make sure a whole bunch of it isn't proven false.
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2019-20 CFL Offseason
I'm sure there are some good players in the XFL. But they were picking from a pool of players that were already 1. Not in the NFL and 2. Not in the CFL . So I really wouldn't be making such bold claims.
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Training Camp Memories
A couple specific memories come to mind. Sometime around 2005 or 2006 when Omar Evans called me out on coming to training camp all of the time. I was also wearing his jersey and he signed it. One of the few bright spots of our defense in those days. Also we used to bring a football wherever we went and we had brought one to training camp. I told holoman to throw the football to Arjei Franklin (who was passing by under the grandstands) and he did and Arjei caught it.
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Training Camp Memories
Yep and that's why I take my training camp reports with a grain of salt. Although I have gotten better over the years.
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Training Camp Memories
I went to a lot of training camps in the late 2000s and early 2010s...A lot of those were very lean years, and our scouting was not very good. You would expect there to be quite a bit of TCF. So when a new player stood out in practice, it was very noticeable. Whether they were good or bad. I used to love writing up my useless scouting reports for the message boards and reading everyone else's. It was a great time sitting in the sun and hanging out with friends/family. We'd usually get an ice cap and soak it all in. Now it's a bit more difficult to pay that kind of attention and be at all the practices. But I still try to get to one a year.
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2019-20 CFL Offseason
I'd pay a reasonable amount of money to watch CFL football in some capacity. I mean...I'm likely not paying for season tickets this year.
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2019-20 CFL Offseason
CFL playing a hub season in the prairies would be amazing (and probably the best idea) . They'd probably still need some bailout money from the government but at least there would be football.
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Bombers recruiting Derel Walker
Could be a good idea. But also I'm uncertain how putting bonus money on the table is going to look at this point when the CFL is pleading for a bailout. I wonder if the teams have been told to lay off that for now.
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Bombers recruiting Derel Walker
For an argument, maybe. The act of arguing is done independently.
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2020 CFL Draft
Are y'all talking about my favourite player Jade Richards
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2020 CFL Draft
Very nice. Gotta think the Bombers put more hours into scouting special teamers than most of the other teams. I'm pretty excited about most of those picks
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2020 CFL Draft
https://leaderpost.com/sports/football/cfl/reginas-nicholas-dheilly-prepared-to-take-next-step-into-cfl/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Good article on Dheilly. Seems like he still has room to get better.
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2020 CFL Draft
Apparently the two worst teams get territorial picks after the second round. It just happens to always be Toronto.
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2020 CFL Draft
Bombers have been solid with our DB/ST picks of late.
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2020 CFL Draft
https://www.cfl.ca/combine/2020-cfl-ontario-regional-combine/ Looks like he's actually pretty athletic. Combine results must have landed him on our radar
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2020 CFL Draft
Who?