Official Game Day Thread - Edmonton at Winnipeg - September 27, 2024

[Blue In BC]

Great game and blowout by the Bombers. An even bigger win than the 17 points I predicted.

As I predicted somewhat we'd targeted their DB # 8 Lewis. However we routinely beat all their other DB's. lol

Offence was on fire. Defence controlled the Elks in the 1st half. 2nd half not quite as good and the Elks scored in garbage time. The problem was that the 2nd half was a go for broke due to the lopsided score.

I didn't see any injuries. KUDOS.

[Pigskin]

wow, it looks like J5V had no one to play with tonight. Board pretty dead.

Dominate game for our O. ZC8 seems to have found his grove. 

D was good, but we gave up another 155 yards rushing. A few missed tackles that need to be made.

Teams gave up a little more yardage then usual.
 

[theaardvark]

wow, it looks like J5V had no one to play with tonight. Board pretty dead.

Dominate game for our O. ZC8 seems to have found his grove. 

D was good, but we gave up another 155 yards rushing. A few missed tackles that need to be made.

Teams gave up a little more yardage then usual.
 

Gave up some yards, but a lot of YABs...

Complete domination in all aspects.

Can we go up in the power rankings?

[Sir Blue and Gold]

What a magical night at the stadium!

[Pigskin]

Nice to see KL89 go 8/9 130 2 TDs. He needed a big game.

[Ducky]

The orange shirt day / truth and reconciliation event is one of the best event nights in sports. Huge kudos to the Bombers and affiliated businesses that make this happen.

[Bluehawk]

It's great the game is sold out. Isn't there a ticket exchange like the Jets have for those who want to sell their tickets?

Best place to find after market tickets for both Bombers and Jets is fansfirst.ca
Bought and sold there often over the years.

[Bluehawk]

What the other guy mentioned is the blue "sticky" thread area at the top of the thread list index named BUY AND SELL, or use this link:

http://forums.bluebombers.com/index.php?topic=52356.0

The usual aftermarket sites have tickets, like stubhub.ca and that other fan one I can't recall the name of.  And TM itself will have aftermarket tickets, but for some reason on sellouts like this they just go all-grey with no listings, which I find really odd.

CFL football in WPG and SSK is a hot ticket this year, it would seem.  Money must be rolling into these 2 clubs.  Right now there are only 2 tickets left on stubhub, which is crazy talk.  LDC was the same way.

At the rate we're going, I think we may sell out the mid-Oct game, which would be unprecedented.  And people say no one likes or cares about the CFL!!  WRONG

Stubhub is a ripoff!  They charge both buyer and seller!!!!
Use fansfirst.ca
A very legit Canadian company!!!

[Blueforlife]

The Bombers are just as good as we have been in the recent past

All three phases excellent

Team culture world class

should have signed Brown they cried, Zach is done they chirped, Lawyer not same they claimed lol

Zach 6 TDs nuff said

Can't touch us

All the D does is eat

Did someone claim that Zach wasn't consistent? Asking for a friend lol

[TecnoGenius]

@TecnoGenius ticketmaster doesn't have resale tickets for Bombers games on their website.

They do for Rider games, Jets games, concerts etc but not Bombers.

Ah, that would explain why I never see the "red seats" on the TM PAS map... weird, I guess the clubs get to decide if they want resale or not?  TM resale is usually pretty lame anyhow, as I don't think they allow selling for less than face.

Stubhub may have hella fees (mostly hidden for buyers), but I've used them a whack ton over the years and they are reliable.  I've gotten into 4 GC's with stubhub...

[TecnoGenius]

What a magical night at the stadium!

Perfect sentiment.

Perfect weather, perfect scenery, perfect fan comradery, perfect munchies, perfect beverages, perfect Bombers, perfect time with both my kids.  Life is good, man.  Soak it up.

[ModAdmin]

A good read on Ed Tait's Game Recap.

[TecnoGenius]

DT said in post-game (I think) this was Zach's most passing TDs in a game ever.  That would include his Ticat years.

My son took Zach in fantasy and he got something like 41 points.  Completely unheard of for any QB, except maybe BLM in his 5TD game earlier this season.  If you captained Zach, you just got 80+ points from 1 player.  Crazy.  (But most of us gave up on Zach in fantasy as he would always get 0 or 1 passing TD a game...)

And many WPG players really paid off in fantasy too... which is also counter to what they've been doing all season (ex-Brady).

[TecnoGenius]

Zach threw that 1st TD to Demski about 55-60Y total in-air length.  That may be the longest ball Zach has thrown all season.  Sometimes he seemed to struggle to throw 45-50Y.

Zach getting his arm & zip back to end the season is the perfect early Christmas gift.  If he has 60Y of air in that arm then Ds all have to rethink how they defend him!

P.S. beaut spiral too

[TecnoGenius]

Pelley on EDM is one big beast.  My daughter said at the game "why is their a hoggie going against our hoggies?".  I looked down and there's this OL looking guy on EDM's DL.  I get the number... 96.  Pelley.

So at home I'm looking him up and he's 6'5 330.  That's completely nuts.  How did this guy end up on the D side of the ball?  Is he any good?  He's a NAT from U CGY.  One would think he'd be too slow & lumbering to be effective at many DT tasks.

I can guess who EDM will pick if they ever need an emergency OL...