bellagiobob
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Dang it
Wonder what happens to our season seats now. League talking about a shortened season.
Well, hopefully they'll let us keep our seats and the same promo for the following season.Not sure. If it is shortened, or cancelled, I am sure we will get a refund.
Maybe they could use this year to implement the long suggested format of eliminating the divisions and just have one big pool. 9 team league, everyone plays each other once and the top 6 make playoffs.Its probably a long shot given that the virus effects will last at least a year but let's be up-beat and say:
-a shortened 8 game season beginning on Labour day (the traditional high profile games) with the season being just West versus West and East versus East games until the GC contest.
That way you reduce some of the travel time on planes (assuming they are flying) and really, most CFL fans are far more interested in the regional rivalries anyway. The Esks would play the Stamps, Bombers, Riders and Lions twice in consecutive home and home weekend matches (not sure what you do in the East given only 4 teams).
Start the playoffs first week in November.
Yup, likely a day dream but my wife says write something positive and turn off BNN--so I did.
Never heard of this card thing before but seems like a bad idea to begin with given the low competency of the officials on the field and working the replay booth. They’d be spending more time trying to figure out which player was supposed to be where than they would be actually watching the play.
I have been killing some time watching old Grey Cup classics on YouTube and of course many EE fans will remember the 1954 classic with Jackie Parker's famous 90 yard return.
The picture quality takes some patience in order to sit through the whole game but the plays and the commercials are very entertaining. All kinds of excitement and over 600 yards of Alouette offense.
I watched Parker's famous play 6 or 7 times but still can't see how it was ruled a fumble or a lateral. There was no Alouette player standing around Hunsinger and the ball travelled about 5 yards downfield so it definitely wasn't a lateral.
It looked to me like Hunsinger's arm definitely came forward in a throwing motion before he was hit so it should have been an incomplete pass but its all part of legend now. Hunsinger was broken hearted (as was the whole city of Montreal) and retired the following year and Jackie Parker became a fumble return icon.
Sam "the rifle" Etcheverry was brilliant and so was Als receiver Red O'Quinn.
The EE offence was very creative with Rollie Miles and Jackie Parker throwing the ball on the halfback option plays. Faloney, the EE QB looked like he was no precision passer in this game (although he went on to become a CFL legend) so I guess the EE coach gave them the green light to throw the ball.
Interesting that legendary fullback Johnny Bright played the entire game on defense and didn't get an offensive touch.
Amusing how guys went both ways in those days. Faloney, the QB, also did the punting.
Touchdowns counted for 5 points, not 6.
The helmets had no face mask and looked exactly like the Romulan helmets in the "Balance of Terror" Star Trek episode.
No Rappers at half time either.
You mean...No Salt n Pepa?????
Eskis have laid of a pile of staff today
do not have the figures but at a time where they should be getting ready to kick things into high gear? this does not bode well for the for coming season.
With Calgary saying no games of any sort until June 30th and the earliest, almost a month into what would have been the season? I can not see the the CFL getting in a full season
could you imagine games in Commonwealth in December? The Grey cup is suppose to be November 22nd in Regina--it will be a snowball already but pushing it till mid December to make up for the games they lost?
I think your gut is correct.My gut is telling me there wont be a season this year
Thorne says he was unfairly fired over an $800 accounting error and for refusing multiple requests from general manager Brock Sutherland to keep healthy players on the team’s injury list where they wouldn’t count against the team’s salary cap.
"It was super uncomfortable. It felt like I was being set up to be a fall guy if anything ever happened," Thorne said of the requests he says were made as a personal favour from the general manager.