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Monday Morning Perspective
Written by pigdog   

09-06-2010

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Brittle bones break for Bucky and the Bombers in Labour Day tilt...............

 

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September 5th - Blue Bombers at Roughriders PDF Print E-mail
Man in the Stands
Written by CalgaryRiderFan   
In these days where we are constantly connected to the TV or internet, I was thankful of one thing last Saturday.  The majority of the game, I was not in front of a TV, nor did I have a signal to get text updates.  There is a chance I would have thrown my phone if that is how I would have found out about the final score.  My opinion is that the reason for all the angst isn’t just losing to a 1-6 team.  We’ve seen this happen to good teams over the years, and it’s not the end of the world.  The problem is that the Stampeders are showing no signs of slowing down.  The Riders have little room for error now or else first place will slip away from them.  The last couple of years, Labour Day has been a good tonic for what ails this team.  Let’s see how the Riders matchup with this years version of the Bombers.
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The Jerk Store Called – Week Nine: Calgary at BC PDF Print E-mail
The Jerk Store Called
Written by Andy   

The Jerk Store Called – Week Nine: Calgary at BC

Here we go!

I think it is important to preface this article by, again, noting my abject, blind, irrational hatred for both of these football teams. You will never hear me compliment anyone on either squad. I will never tell a soul that Joffrey Reynolds (and his ever-growing head…hmmmm….) is a bastion of class in the CFL. Never will I say anything positive about Geroy Simon. Every time I see an article about a sex offender in the Calgary Herald or the Vancouver Province, I naturally assume it’s a member of the aforementioned football teams. You know, hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife... And yet, again and again, I am disappointed. A few columns ago I said I wouldn’t cheer for the Lions if they were playing a team that featured Hitler and Osama Bin Laden. By that logic, I couldn’t cheer for them against the Stamps. However, I refuse to cheer for Fat Nik Lewis and the idiot brigade out of Cowtown. All I could hope for was a lightning strike or something.    

 This game sucked. The first half was decent in terms of points and it was close at the half. However, Henry Burris remembered he has absolutely no presence of mind in a close game and did his best to serve it up to the Loins, just as he tried to do against us at McMahon. Unfortunately for the Loins, they couldn’t grab the ball and run with it (wait, they did grab the ball from Henry. Thrice.).

What was close at halftime fell apart when the Stamps found their swagger and Casey Printers saw a calendar in the dressing room and realized it wasn’t 2004. I turned off the game when it was about 45-21 late, and somehow the Loins got a couple more garbage time touchdowns. Apparently, according to Sportscentre, one of those was punctuated by a hot-dog, wave-the-ball in-the-defender’s-face-while-you-slow-down-on-your-way-into-the-end-zone celebration perpetrated by Arceneaux. Idiot move by a loser on a gawdawful football team. Though, for so many reasons, apt and unsurprising.

I was impressed by a few things, though. Number one being just how fat Nik Lewis is. He is an athletic marvel that he can even move 14 yards without wheezing and needing a chair/oxygen. Cripes. I think it was Geroy that tweeted to Fat Lewis that there is no market for fat receivers in the CFL. Well, Geroy, I would retort that there is no need for aging “superstars” who think they are considerably better than they are. Another thing that impressed me was how Wally looked on the sidelines. He’s so much fun to root against that I think I would miss him if it is indeed his name in the Vancouver Province article next time. Someone should rig up a heart rate monitor to see just how close he is to the massive coronary which is inevitable unless the Loins somehow turn their season around.

This game was terrible. Oh well. It was a lot less painful to watch than the other game last weekend.

Random Notes

·         Cornish should see the field more.

·         McCallum somehow keeps kicking well. Too bad he didn’t decide to start working out until he thought his career was over.

·         As of today, Arjei Franklin is now R. J. Franklin. He can hang out with Lin J. Shell.

·         Empire Stadium looks as good as the Loins look bad. I’m jealous of my Pops who will be at the game on Halloween.

·         Paris Jackson is still my favourite of Michael Jackson’s daughters. Too bad he can’t handle blanket coverage. R.I.P. King of Pop/Pedophiles.

·         I just want to kick the life out of Winnipeg to get this taste out of my mouth.

That’s it for me, folks. I’ll be back next week. The whistles go WOOOOOO!

 
Monday Morning Perspective PDF Print E-mail
Monday Morning Perspective
Written by pigdog   

08-29-2010

 

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Riders induce projectile vomitting with putrid effort in E-Town.......

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August 28 - Roughriders at Eskimos PDF Print E-mail
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Man in the Stands
Written by CalgaryRiderFan   

Welcome back everyone after the bye week.  As per usual we saw some “interesting” topic emerge as people were starved for a game.  Calls for Kerry Joseph, more threads about ex-Riders than current Riders, and I think I even saw a plea to bring Stu Fraser back to return punts.  Well things get back to normal with a game against the Eskimos.  I’ve seen us play the Eskimos a lot and have seen this story line before.  One team is cruising along in a fight for first place.  The other team mired in last place, having made coaching changes, media allegations of problems in the locker room, and overall mayhem.  Yeah, even a person wearing Urkel=style glasses can see the difference is that the roles are reversed now. 

One word about the rankings for this game; at this point in the year, I tried to concentrate on what has been seen on the field in 7 games for these teams, as opposed to what it looks like on paper and what it looked like at the start of the year. 

 
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The Jerk Store Called - Week Eight: Hamilton vs. Toronto PDF Print E-mail
The Jerk Store Called
Written by Andy   

The Jerk Store Called – Week Eight: Hamilton at Toronto

Here we go!

Seriously, Canadian Football League. Enough is enough. Can you not offer me a decent game to watch? I know the spirit of this column is to rant about a crappy game, but this is getting to be ridiculous. I know that the West had a bye last week, but still. Winnipeg and Montreal was crappy. Toronto/Hamilton was a close game, sure. It was never once more than a ten point spread. However, I could sum it up in about fifteen words: a couple of hits, a double reverse, a spitting incident, tackled by punter, GAME OVER. That was it. I like a defensive battle as much as the next fan, but this was less than exciting.  

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The Jerk Store Called - Week Seven PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Andy   

The Jerk Store Called – Week Seven: Montreal at Toronto

Here we go!

I want to start this week’s column by noting that I love football, and the CFL in particular. However, it’s getting tougher and tougher to spend the few remaining evenings of summer (and summer vacation) watching games that do not involve the Riders. This week, again, I could have chosen ANY game on the schedule to rip apart. However, since the powers that be at the CFL figured pitting division rivals against each other four times in the first seven weeks, I’ve already written about godawful Winnipeg versus slightly less awful Hamilton. Twice. BC in Saskatchewan was a horrible game to watch for anyone that’s not a Rider fan. Calgary destroyed Edmonton beyond recognition. That left the Als against Toronto in what should have been a blowout, and it was. It just wasn’t the blowout I had expected.

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Monday Morning Perspective
Written by pigdog   

08-15-2010

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Riders do their part on Don Narcisse Day in Saskatchewan........................

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August 12 - Lions at Roughriders PDF Print E-mail
Man in the Stands
Written by CalgaryRiderFan   

I consider the Riders’ first third of the season a success at 4-2.  Sure there were a few warts along the way, but remember, this is a marathon not a sprint.  The team got off to a good start, now it’s time to have a good middle run to set us up for the stretch drive.  The Riders face a Lions team that has not struggled like this since pre-Wally days.  This game will be also extra special as we get to see one of my favorites, Don “Narco” Narcisse enshrined into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.  He wasn’t the biggest guy, he wasn’t the fastest guy, but he could get open and had a great pair of hands.  For a guy without top end speed he burned a lot of guys deep.  Last but not least, he loved being a Saskatchewan Roughrider.  You can still hear that in some of the interviews I’ve heard with him this weekSadly the occasion is bitter sweet for Don as his mother just passed away.  It’s strange to say this but we congratulate Don and thank him for his accomplishments as a Saskatchewan Roughrider.  At the same time, we offer our condolences to him and his family for their loss. 

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