The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

[bwiser]

Kenny left feeling disrespected "because we signed Mitchell before him".

Kenny - 2-9 32 yards
Mitchell - 3-3 67 yds 1TD

Sorry Kenny.

Oh my god the Bombers killed Kenny you ********!

[Tecno]

GOOD
Hogan finally coming up with new ideas on short pass and they worked all night.  Where was that earlier this season?

Zach did some pump fakes and look-offs!  Seriously!  Stop the world.

UGLY
Captain Blue's airplane motor blew up on one of the TDs.  My son noticed and thought it was hilarious.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

GOOD
Hogan finally coming up with new ideas on short pass and they worked all night.  Where was that earlier this season?

Zach did some pump fakes and look-offs!  Seriously!  Stop the world.

UGLY
Captain Blue's airplane motor blew up on one of the TDs.  My son noticed and thought it was hilarious.

Time to put an electric motor in that beast, I remember seeing it being hauled down Pembina Hwy. on the back of a flat deck headed for the repair shop once.

[Tecno]

Time to put an electric motor in that beast, I remember seeing it being hauled down Pembina Hwy. on the back of a flat deck headed for the repair shop once.

Captain Jack (that his name?) and I once spoke for quite a while near the end of his stint on a slow on-field night.  He said it's a lawn tractor engine.

Someone probably forgot to change or top up the oil, LOL.  Basic maintenance can keep those things going literally forever -- although that one might be punished more than normal lawn use -- all that revving.

No way you go electric with that thing!  The noise is half the fun.  Plus, the cost would be at least double, and someone would have to remember to charge the darn thing   

At least the canon was working.  Always a bummer when that thing is busted.  P.S. A few games back my son noticed the canon isn't even used anymore, just there for show.  They have some sort of alternative device nearby where dudes are messing with it during the game.

[Stretch]

On the opening kickoff, a sideline official tripped over a photographer who appeared to be lying prone on the sideline at the H45. While somewhat comical, it puts the official in a vulnerable position.

Didn't notice that live, but on the highlights it looks like the photographer might have been off the wide white sideline stripes. That doesn't excuse or diminish the collision, but my understanding is that those are supposed to be kept clear for the officials.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

Captain Jack (that his name?) and I once spoke for quite a while near the end of his stint on a slow on-field night.  He said it's a lawn tractor engine.

Someone probably forgot to change or top up the oil, LOL.  Basic maintenance can keep those things going literally forever -- although that one might be punished more than normal lawn use -- all that revving.

No way you go electric with that thing!  The noise is half the fun.  Plus, the cost would be at least double, and someone would have to remember to charge the darn thing   

At least the canon was working.  Always a bummer when that thing is busted.  P.S. A few games back my son noticed the canon isn't even used anymore, just there for show.  They have some sort of alternative device nearby where dudes are messing with it during the game.

I think they had to shut down the cannon due to noise complaints from neighbours in Fort Richmond and the Victoria Hospital.

[blue_or_die]

No way you go electric with that thing!  The noise is half the fun.  Plus, the cost would be at least double, and someone would have to remember to charge the darn thing   

I dunno, I feel like a smallish second hand motor and a few deep cycle 12V batteries in series would do the trick for less than $1000. Sure you'd need to charge it, just like you need to add fuel, top up/change oil, filters, and any other maintenance with a small engine. And it would last forever probably. You could add a noise maker maybe for those nostalgic for an old machine's inefficiency 

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

I dunno, I feel like a smallish second hand motor and a few deep cycle 12V batteries in series would do the trick for less than $1000. Sure you'd need to charge it, just like you need to add fuel, top up/change oil, filters, and any other maintenance with a small engine. And it would last forever probably. You could add a noise maker maybe for those nostalgic for an old machine's inefficiency 

Easily, electric motors are cheap now and he could almost fly in that thing if they added a big enough one!

[theaardvark]

I dunno, I feel like a smallish second hand motor and a few deep cycle 12V batteries in series would do the trick for less than $1000. Sure you'd need to charge it, just like you need to add fuel, top up/change oil, filters, and any other maintenance with a small engine. And it would last forever probably. You could add a noise maker maybe for those nostalgic for an old machine's inefficiency 

I think it would be a fairly large electric motor, might need more than a few deep cycle batteries.. especially with the number of scoring plays we create.

It also wouldn't have the distinctive gas powered exhaust roar, which is a big part of the celly.  Unless you installed the BoomBox electric car noise generator.  If I had a Tesla, this would be the first add on I'd buy.

[Tecno]

I think they had to shut down the cannon due to noise complaints from neighbours in Fort Richmond and the Victoria Hospital.

But the canon-replacement is equally as loud.  Audibly I can't notice any difference.  So the geriatrics trying to sleep at Victoria are still losing?

[Waffler]

Captain Blue's airplane motor blew up

Always wondered why they use a biplane replica than one that actually resembles a bomber.

[theaardvark]

Always wondered why they use a biplane replica than one that actually resembles a bomber.

Wingspan... much easier to make a biplane look like a plane at that scale.  Bomber would look very cartoonish.  And, BTW, biplanes did act as bombers...

[Tecno]

Wingspan... much easier to make a biplane look like a plane at that scale.  Bomber would look very cartoonish.  And, BTW, biplanes did act as bombers...

Indeed they did.  In early WWI dudes would just throw bombs out from their cockpit by hand.

[Jesse]

Always wondered why they use a biplane replica than one that actually resembles a bomber.

I feel like the main reason is that it's supposed to be a cartoony fun mascot that is family friendly and not invoke war imagery.

And the Bomber plane you're picturing in your head was just being invented in the years that the Bombers began playing. Reminder that they were named after Joe Louis, "The Brown Bomber".

[theaardvark]

So, we should be using a boxing glove as a mascot?