September 2009
28 posts
Buying Time
by: Tony “Tee” Martin
A lot of people were talking this week about how this was a do or die game for the Bombers. If the Boys in Blue won, Coach K. would buy himself another week to tinker with his antiquated offensive schemes, scour some more video tape of QB prospects hoping to find the next “chosen one”, keep the team in the playoff hunt and prevent fans from firing...
Now That’s More Like It
by H.F. Salisbury
I like Paul Friesen. He tells it like it is. I seriously cracked up when in his Winnipeg Sun column he dubbed yesterdays clash between the two worst teams in the CFL the “Toilet Bowl.” Upon reflection, those two words really are keeping me in check as I look forward from the game and a well deserved win.
As the 22,000 plus fans (and I’m talking paid not actually...
Why I Bleed Blue & Gold
by: Cameron Hayglass (via: CFL.ca)
Words are still not coming together quite the way I want yet, but I guess that’s what happens when your favourite team’s archrival has its way with your team twice in as many weeks, including a slim six and a half touchdown win on your own home field. I’ve spent most of the last week trying to decide whether I should just leap out my bedroom...
The Revolving Door
by: Ernie “This is the” Pitts The panic button at Maroons Road has been hit more times than the buzzers on the set of Jeopardy. The result a whole bunch of last-second changes to the game-day program, which I never used to pick up. I knew who the players were. Stegall was 85. Armstrong: 83. Charlie was 1, and his uniform had a secret pocket where he kept his smokes. I’m number 66, and the back...
Hell is a Terrible Place to Be
by Mike A.
The doctrine of Purgatory, made popular by the Catholic Church, speaks to the severe torture and power of thermal energy that is spent on a soul in the afterlife when that soul is not yet fit for ascension to heaven. Men and women of faith all over the world enjoy stirring up the fleas of little kids and the weak-willed with tales of excruciating torture that one will experience in...
Don't dream - it's over*
Photo: Globe and Mail
By Flippy Dinwiddie
*with apologies to Crowded House
Abstract: Disgruntled casual Bomber fan posts pointless, semi-verbose stream-of-consciousness-ish tirade
Note: I’d better post this before the Monday media scrum starts - otherwise it will become a profanity-laced bit of anti-Kelly vitriol that I may live to regret.
First things first. I’m what you would maybe...
Crappy Honker Award
by H.F. Salisbury
In the great tradition of recognizing “Cactus” Jack Wells and the Happy Honker Award given out on C-Job radio here in Winnipeg, I present for you the first installment of the Happy Crappy Honker Award given to an individual(s) for an fantastic unforgivable performance directly related to the continued floundering of our once beloved Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Today...
Are You Kidding Me....
by H.F. Salisbury
OK… I wasn’t going to blog during the games but we just had three stupid penalties in a row, had a 54 yard run elimated by one, and were put in a 2nd and 35 with the ball on our own 10 yard line. What do we do….
Throw a pass 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage only to be tackled at the 10 yard line. Yeah. Brilliant.
Tony “Tee” Martin and I...
A View from the Tombstone
by Mike A.
What is left to say now that the curtain has unofficially fallen on the 2009 Winnipeg Blue Bomber season? What discussion points could be worth flushing out in any detail whatsoever? What is the point in paying attention at that hapless and clueless “who me?” face of Mike Kelly at one more press conference this year? After last weeks’ brutal and absolutely shocking dismembering at...
A Long Bomber History...
by H.F. Salisbury
I just got the call from my father. He’s out at the lake. Regardless of location, I usually can count on my father to call me for a pre game chat. It usually ends with him saying “bring home a winner.”
My Dad, was a season ticket holder for years. In fact, he’s such a fan of the CFL that he bet EVERY regular and playoff game for about the last 40+...
The revolution continues...
by: Ernie “This Is The” Pitts
Imagine you’re Michael Bishop for a moment. You’re hanging around your yard in the States, trying without success to hit the broad side of a barn with a few rocks. You haven’t thrown a football in months because not a single pro team wanted you, probably because of your inability to hit the aforementioned barn. But goddam can you throw those rocks. They sail...
The PacNu Report
Calgary -5.5: Calgary will cover in Hamilton.
Bombers +14.5: PacNu thinks the Bombers will rebound and be able to cover the massive +14.5 spread against Montreal. That’s only if the boys in Blue behave and don’t hit up the strip clubs to channel their inner Pacman Jones and “make it rain”.
Toronto +7.5: Pac likes this road dog to cover in Lotusland.
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Remember the Good Old Days?
by Tony “Tee” Martin
Remember the good old days? When all Bomber fans had to worry about were Troy Westwood’s shanking a kick (how much $$$ has he made the W.C.L.C.?), the over priced beer, an inconsistent secondary that would play like Grey Cup contenders one week and then look like they would get schooled by a Division 3 college team the next game, the stale popcorn, Doug...
Google eyes on Mike Kelly
Something tells me Kelly will be back coaching some “I-am-too-slow-and-too-short to-play-for-a-real-school” Division II team after the end of this season.
Tony “Tee” Martin
via: The Winnipeg Sun
So, Mike Kelly wants us to Google him, does he?
The head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers made the comment after his most embarrassing loss of the season, Sunday night.
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I Had a Feeling...
by H.F. Salisbury
I did not even consider buying a Sports-Select ticket. Bet365.com not a chance. Pick the Bombers to win, sorry but I just could not do it. You see, I had a feeling.
On Sunday, I was walking up the ramp in the stadium and overhearing various conversations that had a “Bombers are going to bounce back” vibe to them. Ah yes, the cautiously optimistic were out. ...
We demand better, and we demand better now
by: Ernie “This Is The” Pitts
The atmosphere was sickening. As the boos rained down on a stuggling – as always – Michael Bishop, Saskatchewan Roughriders fans wearing fruit as headgear cackled with glee. By the mid-point of the fourth quarter, only the melonheads and a few diehard Bombers fans remained in the stands to watch the Riders deliver the final kicks to the bloodied and...
TSN: How to Fix Your Bullshit Network
by: Ernie “This Is The” Pitts
I’ve written so many letters to TSN over the last few years after being utterly appalled by the network’s absolute inability to cover sports events properly. You’d think our national sports network would have some idea of how to broadcast a sporting event — but you’d be wrong. TSN is on autopilot, and I’d wager that I...
Belief divides them, mystery surrounds them, but...
by Mike A.
In the 2007 movie adaptation of a Stephen King short “The Mist”, small town folk discover that a mysterious fog that has come ashore contains crazy other-worldly monsters bent on the bloody and murderous destruction of civilization. Like a foreboding message proclaiming doom and some kind of hellish apocalypse that threatens to end the entire season for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers...
“I was told this week they wanted to try a different combination group, they said...”
– Barrin Simpson in an interview with The Globe & Mail.
Simpson Not in Control of the Situation
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are in no rush to trade Barrin Simpson.
Head coach Mike Kelly said Friday that Simpson, the middle linebacker who has requested a trade over playing time, is not the one in control of the situation.
“I still think he has value for us and is a good football player,” Kelly said after practice. “Barrin Simpson is a Winnipeg Blue Bomber who has been asked to work within...
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Barrin Simpson Seeking Trade - This Can't Be Good
Looks like Mike Kelly is deadset on breaking the record for trading/releasing/chasing away the best players on the team. Who is next? Fred Reid? Alexis Serna? Siddeeq Shabazz?
Tony “Tee” Martin
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WINNIPEG — Barrin Simpson is almost certainly finished with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
The veteran linebacker has asked the Blue Bombers for a trade and the club has...
