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#1

Offside Forum / Re: Portage and Main

Last post by blue_gold_84 - Today at 08:27:22 PM

Five months to the day since it was re-opened for pedestrian usage - and what do ya know, the world didn't end.

Some comments in here have aged rather putridly.

#2

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: 2026 CFL Schedule Planned ...

Last post by gobombersgo - Today at 08:26:49 PM

Hopefully the Toronto "home game" is in the summer.

Maybe they will have their 2 games in back to back weeks and the Argos just stay here for a week.

[These are issues Walters should have been aware of before signing him.]

#3

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: Dillon Mitchell arrested

Last post by blue_gold_84 - Today at 08:23:34 PM

He revealed it in an interview with Ed Tait shortly after he signed with the Bombers last spring.  Also a few reports of misbehaviour in college with the Oregon Ducks. These are issues Walters should have been aware of before signing him.

It's strange that you'd make an assumption like that.

Could you share a link to that interview?

#4

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: Dillon Mitchell arrested

Last post by Throw Long Bannatyne - Today at 08:21:07 PM

Is there definitive proof Mitchell had substance use issues in college? No actual source was provided.

He revealed it in an interview with Ed Tait shortly after he signed with the Bombers last spring.  Also a few reports of misbehaviour in college with the Oregon Ducks. These are issues Walters should have been aware of before signing him.

#5

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: Dillon Mitchell arrested

Last post by gobombersgo - Today at 08:04:42 PM

When I opened my Chrome browser, it was literally the first suggested news report.  I didn't even read the headline - I just saw the picture, went "holy ####", and started reading the articles and looking at the source to see if it was legit....

Looks like I scooped John Hodge by at least a few hours.  Why am I not getting paid ?  LOL...

lol

Im thinking more people might have received the article in their newsfeed if it said Winnipeg Blue Bombers receiver instead of CFL receiver.

#6

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: New rules / commissioner's...

Last post by blue_gold_84 - Today at 07:32:14 PM

Every CFL stadium will have an identical field.  15 yard deep EZ doesn't happen without the goal post moves.  Loss of a 55 yard line when you make FG's 15 yards deeper makes sense.

They all fit together.  I can see it making the game better, higher scoring and faster.  I cannot see it making anything worse, except losing the nostalgia of C or 55 on the field, many times in a different font than the rest of the field... and of course, the offensive play "doink" / goal post rub plays.

Every CFL venue would accommodate fitment even if you left the 110-yard length and changed to 15-yard endzones. Moving the goalposts back didn't improve scoring for the NFL; to claim the CFL doing so will result in any improvement to the game is not realistic. The amount of doinks that take place is basically a rounding error, anyway.

The NFL is objectively no better, faster, or higher scoring than the CFL despite playing on a much smaller field - it's personal preference, which is subjective. And it's pretty disingenuous for you, the commissioner, or any other shill on board with these changes to make such claims because the data simply doesn't exist.

These changes do nothing to address what's actually ailing the CFL in terms of its financial health or its sustainability as a league.

#7

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: Dillon Mitchell arrested

Last post by blue_gold_84 - Today at 07:30:34 PM

No, the past history of his issues obviously, as mentioned here:

Is there definitive proof Mitchell had substance use issues in college? No actual source was provided.

#8

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: New rules / commissioner's...

Last post by TBURGESS - Today at 07:30:15 PM

None of the changes needed to be made. None of them will help scoring. All they will do is annoy the older folks who are the ones who buy tickets. 

#9

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: Bluebomber OC position dis...

Last post by Throw Long Bannatyne - Today at 07:26:52 PM

I see on 3DN other teams are beginning to re-sign a bunch of returning players, I think the Ti-Cats have done 5 including Augustine and Ternowski.  Bombers probably holding off until they sort out their OC issue.

#10

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: Bluebomber OC position dis...

Last post by Throw Long Bannatyne - Today at 07:16:53 PM

Mike is a perfectly safe name to use today.  Connor, not so much.

I named my daughter Mary 28 years ago, and she has zero contemporaries named Mary... 

I named my son Walter, he's the only one left!