Angry Bomber Fans

Final Crappy Honker Award of the Season

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 yet another instalment of the Happy Crappy Honker Award given to an individual(s) for a fantastic unforgivable performance directly related to the continued floundering of our once beloved Winnipeg Blue Bombers.. and believe me Bomber nation, while this is no surprise, it clearly hurts. Perhaps more than other losses.

Loyal readers, please continue to read on.  While this may seem like a bit of déjà vu, and that you are in fact reading an old post, let me reassure you that this is the most current/latest post.  These are statistics for the last (oh and I do mean last) Bomber game against Hamilton.

This was the most important game of the year.  Win and you’re in.  Out and well… Crappy Honker is awarded.  This was essentially a playoff game. The fact that we were beaten by a group of “Bombers past” doesn’t mean anything to me.  Our old QB Kevin Glenn seeing karma in action by beating his old team that gave him a way doesn’t even interest me.  I’ll tell you what really ticks me off – we now have a 19 year Grey Cup drought.  Yes, it was 1990 and the 78^th Grey Cup that we last won.  I don’t blame our Crappy Honker Award winner for all those years but this current year…

Mr. Bishop, please step forward to collect you award.  Yes here is where that déjà vu may come in.  Our QB’s stats for the most important game of the year are as follows:

• Passes completed / Passes Attempted: 8/26 (30%)
• Touchdowns / Interceptions: 1 / 2
• Points Hamilton scored off of QB turnovers: 14

Yuck.  That was the worst performance I’ve seen from Bishop this year.  Seriously, the Tiger Cat defense was not that good.  He was that bad.  I think we only had one first down in the entire second half.  Yes there were poor offensive coordinator calls made (second and 10 from our own 9 yard line and we run it when the run clearly was not working) but at the end of the day, poor passes and interceptions killed us.

To sum it all up, I’d like to use a quote from Doug Brown – “You don’t lose by 22 points at home to a team that’s already made the playoffs.  We got a sold-out crowd, and the Blueout’s happening, and we have a province that really didn’t have a lot of reasons to get behind us tonight, and they did. We let everybody down.”

Well Doug, some players let us down more than others.