What channel is it on? I've tried to catch a game but haven't been able to find it on TV.
Also, did you hear the reports that the AAF didn't even make payroll for week 1? They blamed it on a glitch, but were close to missing payroll for week 2 as well until Tom Dundon bailed them out with a $250m investment yesterday.
https://www.tsn.ca/riders-sign-arceneaux-to-1-year-deal-1.1258410
So I guess this means that Carter is Arceneaux's replacement.
I'm not sure I'm totally on board with this. Manny may have only had 500 yards last season, but it's because he missed like half the year.
I like that they have to disclaim that the jersey won't actually be a featureless monochrome t-shirt.
Oh my god these are a gazillion times better than what they've been wearing. I hated that weird Lion logo on the helmet ever since they introduced it.
I kind of miss white helmets with the home/orange jersey though.
The white helmets were so bland. The black ones from the last few years were gorgeous. But the orange ones were meh. I like the ones that are in that purposed picture.
I always loved these:
I wish I could find one of these jerseys in 2xl or bigger. I want one so badly.
), but there's something about the bright, vibrant orange that appeals to me. The sports jersey I'm most pissed about not having right now is the kick-ass orange 3rd that the Sharks' AHL team used in the dying days of Reebok branded uniforms. 
But I don't want to hijack this thread. I tend to do that sometimes.
New jerseys are likely going into next season. Pre-orders for Reilly jerseys are now available, and the images on the website all but guarantee we'll see new unis under New Era. These are just mock ups but one thing that stood out was black numbers on the white jerseys (not seen since 2003). Also read rumours on twitter that we'll have black helmets at home. I've long pined for the 70s retro jerseys we wore at Empire back in 2010, and after seeing these, I'm starting to get excited that's the direction these are headed.
I like the orange helmet too, but not with orange jerseys. It has to go with black or white jerseys. And I prefer the standard lion logo to the paw print. It was nice as an alternate, but I wouldn't want it all the time.
I liked the look of the white helmet with the orange jersey and white pants. It's funny that I'm generally anti "OMG everything should look clean and simple and like it's from the 1950s" in hockey uniforms (I love those goofy 90s Coyotes jerseys they're wearing as throwbacks this year, with the southwestern/azteca trim and the schizo wall-art Coyote logo), but I like the crisper and more vibrant football uniforms to the ones that are loaded up with piping and colored panels.
Also I liked that white helmets were kind of our thing before the Riders showed up with a white alternate helmet and the Als changed over to white helmets. I know the silver helmets/pants setup was sort of the most iconic uni from my lifetime since it was the design of the team when I was growing up and we had Flutie and Allen and Dunigan at QB (or was Matt Dunigan from the era immediately preceding those ones? I can't recall. I was like 2 at the time
I'm just glad they got rid of the fugly curved-neck/venitian blinds lion from the last batch of helmets. That was a godawful logo.
I also accept that I'm weird for caring far more about uniform design than I should. It actually borderline irritates me that the Seahawks don't go back to the blue/green/silver they had in the 80s/90s.
Regardless, the Lions redesign could've been much, much worse. We could've ended up doing what the Als did.
The Baltimore Ravens fans have to thank the CFL for getting Baltimore a NFL franchise back. Unless I’m mistaken, they saw how it looked like the CFL was succeeding in that city so the league gave them another shot at a NFL team. The one success story in the US expansion which was too successful in a way.
This is exactly what happened, and why I knew it US expansion was a fool's errand from the start. The natural consequence of a CFL team succeeding in the US was the NFL regarding it as a threat.
I vaguely remembering watching something about how their owner specifically tried to get the Baltimore community involved in the team (as well as old Colts alumni like Unitas, the old Baltimore Colts marching band, etc., ) to ingratiate themselves with the city.
I thought so. It's just weird seeing him pop up at a whl game in Langley still wearing his jersey even though he's not a player anymore.
Meanwhile there's a guy at tonight's Giants game in a Lions jersey. It looks like #62 in a recent style. Not sure who that is off the top of my head. EDIT: just watched him go up the stairs to the concourse. No way I can read the name from the other side of the rink. It's tiny.
Oh no, they did a whole bunch of outreach iirc. They did the whole community thing while ignoring the elephant in the room and were royally f***ed for their hubris.
https://deadspin.com/the-aafs-sudden-collapse-left-players-high-and-dry-with-1833813021
You know you’re a **** league when you can’t even last as long as the one season XFL. Though to be fair, that league was I think underwritten by one of the US TV networks.
