Wow! That would make anyone proud to be a Canadian. Very well done.
Very nice. It is about time that this Country embrace all that is good about it. The CFL and its’ history is one that does unite Canada.
Needs more Argo clips. 🙂
Also would have liked to see a replay of the anthem at the 1974(?) Grey Cup when a female streaker ran out in front of Chuck Ealey in the freezing cold.
I watched my last NFL game years ago; the hype vs the actual contest are miles apart, whereas in the CFL the hype is low but the on-field product is top-notch. There is no comparison between the two leagues’ championship matches.
I know its sucky, but I start to cry every time I see that video: so many great memories, so many great games.
I thought I was the only one to find it getting a bit dusty in here, joe.
We get a shortened version on the jumbotron at every Bombers home game. Unfortunately, they couldn’t find it in themselves to edit out the PET bit. 🙂
I absolutely love the cheering guys in the car that get in the rear-ender. It’d be so easy to see happen, and it brings it home in such a goofy Canadian way.
Matt: I could not agree more. Well, except about the Argo clips. 😉 I’m a Leo through and through (despite now living in Bomber land.)
Specifically about the hype vs. product part. I have made the same observation, that the NFL game is well-marketed but the game itself (I think) is boring. On the other hand, the CFL marketing is hit and miss, but the on-field product is extremely entertaining. Although to be fair, some of the marketing has been good–it just didn’t catch on that well. Such as:
The one where the veterans are explaining a rouge to a new player, obviously from the USA; at the end he screams out, “Hey coach, they’re doin’ it again!”
Or the one where the player is about to catch a punt, waving his hand in the air. As soon as he catches it, 3 guys come flying across the screen and bury him. Fair catch, pfft. 😉
And Yukon, nope, it’s dusty here in Fort Richmond, too.
This is good.
I remember, as a kid, watching the CFL. My parents were off the boat (Irish). My dad had managed to get into Stelco (he was actually in a lineup and because he was the tallest and strongest guy, he got hired). He loved sports, but he had never seen football before (he played a lot of hurling and gaelic football – but had never seen something like CFL football). He took me to my first game at Ivor Wynne Stadium. (I also saw the Grey Cup in Vancouver in 1999 – the Ticats won.)
A few years later we saw our first NFL game. We couldn’t believe that it took 4 downs to get 10 yards. The ball was never turned over so you only got to see maybe 2-3 drives (if lucky) a quarter for a team.
Today I appreciate both the CFL and the NFL (they are different games) and I appreciate that Canadians now have the self confidence to support the CFL.
Very moving.
I’ve always thought that it was spectacular to see Miss Calgary Stampeder gallop a circuit around the outfield on her quarter horse whenever the Stamps made a touchdown.
It would have been a nice touch to be about unity and not have someone as divisive and controversial as PET in the video.
Some time in the 70’s I was watching the Argos take on the Rough Riders in Ottawa. Ottawa kicks off to start the game. But they do a high onside kick, recover the ball, and eventually take the ball down the field and score.
They must have thought “hmmm, that was easy,” ’cause wouldn’t you know it they did it again on the following kickoff. Then they proceeded to do it for most of the game. I have never seen anything like that before or since.
In the 80’s the Argos had a playoff home-and-home against Harold Ballard’s Ticats. I go down with friends to Ivor Wynne and the Boatmen handily beat the Tabbies by 21.
Back to Exhibition Stadium and the Argos score on their very first possession.
They’re up by 28. At home. There’s no way they can possibly lose this thing.
And then …
Great game, great fans, great players but the refereeing SUCKS!
Oh Yeah.. ain’t nothing like the CFL.
Gotta love the old time clips, but P.E.T.
is part of our history too. Don’t have to like him, just accept he was here and is now gone.
Cheers
On the whole its ok. I would have deleted that Tony Gabriel catch along with the pic of Trudeau. I would have included Lancaster with the player from the past mentioned. Oh ya,George Reed too! Might have guessed by now that I’m a Rider fan!
Yep Bob…hated seeing that Gabriel catch again. But it was one of the 3 best football games I ever watched.
Go ‘Riders.
What no clips of the 1994 Grey Cup champion Baltimore Stallions?
Joe, me too, sniff.
I went to my first game (Taylor Field) at age 10 or so. I watched (and remembered) my first game on TV long before that.
I love the CFL, but I watch the NFL a lot, it isn’t the same. In the Sept-Nov time-frame, Sunday has both available, I choose the CFL over that other league, every time. I find the NFL _boring_.
I had to join the free fantasy football leagues just to get an interest in the NFL games. This was so that I could cheer for a team with players I had in my draft. Something . . . anything to spark some interest.
There’s a reason the CFL is compared to NCAA football in the States, the excitement on the field, the “everyman” players, the fan support.
The CFL is a great product and as much as people like to bang on the ref’s, I think they do an outstanding job for being part-timers and lovers of the game. Ninety-nine percent of the time, they’re right. The one percent that everyone remembers is usually in super slow-mo and every second is analysed by TSN commentators. Do it real-time . . . different story.
One thing about PET, I despise what he did to the country and my region, but he knew that the CFL was Our Game and he did celebrate it with us.
IMO, Harper would do well to practice his long snap catches. This is after-all, Our League.
12 straight sell-outs at Taylor Field, more to come. Have you got your teams tickets yet? BC Lions Edmonton Eskimos Calgary Stampeders Saskatchewan Roughriders Winnepeg Blue Bombers Hamilton TigerCats Toronto Argonauts Montreal Alouettes
Go to a game!
lance
Posted by: lance at July 30, 2008 8:14 PM
Yeah and sometimes I find my Seattle Seahawks nothing short of agonizing. Perhaps we Yanks could learn from your version of our continential game.
Oh and PMSH ought to play a game in the CFL too!
Go Bombers Go!
1-4 is irrelevant!
Go Bills !
That video is gary with a silent “r”.
Yeah a good vid, shitty seeing a dick like p.e.t. in it, why I ask was that any part of this??? The game is a lot fun, and includes some fabulous people!
Great ad. Gave me shivers, literally.
Except for the unfortunate shot of PET. For an ad pushing the “unity” message, it was a bit incongruous to show, even briefly, arguably the most divisive political leader in modern Canadian history.
That aside, I’d like to see this ad rolled out broadly in the Canadian media.
if CBCpravda would have done the piece we would have had Stanfield fumbling the football and PET at the start and Justin at the end.
The CFL game is a pony underneath a pile of marketing and ownership manure – its fans are just convinced that it’s under there somewhere.
I am not convinced. I see paralells to the kind of fanaticism exhibited towards CBC radio by many of the same people. Both seem well past their glory days.
And why the CFL continues with the suicidal strategy of blacking-out poorly attended home games is beyond me. It is why the ti-cats and agros are far less popular than the buffalo bills in the southern Ontario Market.
P.E.T. was not the only P.M.to do the ceremonial kick-off.Pearson and Dief. did as well.I can also remember a Rich Little L.P. where he does a routine of the two at the kick-off.Early 60’s I believe.He was excellent at both voices.
Awesome! Love the still pic at the front. That must be BC playing at the old Empire Stadium?
Man, that just looks cool with the North Shore mountains back behind the stands. They need to get outside again!!
Sea Salt: “What no clips of the 1994 Grey Cup champion Baltimore Stallions?”
Because the 1994 champions were the BC Lions. I was there, in BC Place, November 27, 1994. I remember it like it was yesterday, with Lui Passaglia kicking the winning field goal and over 55,000 people going nuts and not being able to hear for about a week.
I know I’m playing with semantics here, as the Stallions won it in 1995, but still.
Heh. Johann, I was in Vic for ’94. For a Lion’s win it was pretty tame.
I was at the game in ’95 when the Stallions beat the Stamps. I remember the last game of the season for the Riders vs. the Stamps. 55,600 fans in the GC seats.
We were a horrible team, but on that day, with those fans we made so much noise that the Stamps got their asses handed to them.
After the GC, Flutie was PO’ed. He thought that the crowd that beat him previously would be pro-Stamps in the GC and make the same difference.
Heh. Obviously he didn’t understand Rider-Pride.
f_in’ “A”!
FIVE AND 0!
wow great bit that film, only unfortunate thing is that the Grey Cup used to be for an even better game than it is now. It used to be for the best team game ever and still, and now it is just for football. /sad
Wow. I sometimes get cynical about Canadian patriotism but that is a vision of Canadiana I can get into.
I live in Ottawa. I hope it will be my league again some day.
Overall multiple winners: Toronto Argonauts (15); Edmonton Eskimos (13); Winnipeg Blue Bombers (10); Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Ottawa Rough Riders (7); Calgary Stampeders (6) B.C. Lions, Hamilton Tigers and Montreal Alouettes (5); University of Toronto (4); Queen’s University (3); Ottawa Senators, Sarnia Imperials, Saskatchewan Roughriders and Toronto Balmy Beach (2)
“Perhaps we Yanks could learn from your version of our continential game.”
Josef at July 30, 2008 8:29 PM
Football is Canadian, is was invented in the 1600’s by British replacement troops coming to the Citadel in Quebec. Canadian Universities introduced it to American Collages in the 1800s, by that time Canada had a professional league of sorts. Check the Canadian Football Hall Of Fame web site for details.
Wow! That would make anyone proud to be a Canadian. Very well done.
Very nice. It is about time that this Country embrace all that is good about it. The CFL and its’ history is one that does unite Canada.
Needs more Argo clips. 🙂
Also would have liked to see a replay of the anthem at the 1974(?) Grey Cup when a female streaker ran out in front of Chuck Ealey in the freezing cold.
I watched my last NFL game years ago; the hype vs the actual contest are miles apart, whereas in the CFL the hype is low but the on-field product is top-notch. There is no comparison between the two leagues’ championship matches.
I know its sucky, but I start to cry every time I see that video: so many great memories, so many great games.
I thought I was the only one to find it getting a bit dusty in here, joe.
We get a shortened version on the jumbotron at every Bombers home game. Unfortunately, they couldn’t find it in themselves to edit out the PET bit. 🙂
I absolutely love the cheering guys in the car that get in the rear-ender. It’d be so easy to see happen, and it brings it home in such a goofy Canadian way.
Matt: I could not agree more. Well, except about the Argo clips. 😉 I’m a Leo through and through (despite now living in Bomber land.)
Specifically about the hype vs. product part. I have made the same observation, that the NFL game is well-marketed but the game itself (I think) is boring. On the other hand, the CFL marketing is hit and miss, but the on-field product is extremely entertaining. Although to be fair, some of the marketing has been good–it just didn’t catch on that well. Such as:
The one where the veterans are explaining a rouge to a new player, obviously from the USA; at the end he screams out, “Hey coach, they’re doin’ it again!”
Or the one where the player is about to catch a punt, waving his hand in the air. As soon as he catches it, 3 guys come flying across the screen and bury him. Fair catch, pfft. 😉
And Yukon, nope, it’s dusty here in Fort Richmond, too.
This is good.
I remember, as a kid, watching the CFL. My parents were off the boat (Irish). My dad had managed to get into Stelco (he was actually in a lineup and because he was the tallest and strongest guy, he got hired). He loved sports, but he had never seen football before (he played a lot of hurling and gaelic football – but had never seen something like CFL football). He took me to my first game at Ivor Wynne Stadium. (I also saw the Grey Cup in Vancouver in 1999 – the Ticats won.)
A few years later we saw our first NFL game. We couldn’t believe that it took 4 downs to get 10 yards. The ball was never turned over so you only got to see maybe 2-3 drives (if lucky) a quarter for a team.
Today I appreciate both the CFL and the NFL (they are different games) and I appreciate that Canadians now have the self confidence to support the CFL.
Very moving.
I’ve always thought that it was spectacular to see Miss Calgary Stampeder gallop a circuit around the outfield on her quarter horse whenever the Stamps made a touchdown.
It would have been a nice touch to be about unity and not have someone as divisive and controversial as PET in the video.
Some time in the 70’s I was watching the Argos take on the Rough Riders in Ottawa. Ottawa kicks off to start the game. But they do a high onside kick, recover the ball, and eventually take the ball down the field and score.
They must have thought “hmmm, that was easy,” ’cause wouldn’t you know it they did it again on the following kickoff. Then they proceeded to do it for most of the game. I have never seen anything like that before or since.
In the 80’s the Argos had a playoff home-and-home against Harold Ballard’s Ticats. I go down with friends to Ivor Wynne and the Boatmen handily beat the Tabbies by 21.
Back to Exhibition Stadium and the Argos score on their very first possession.
They’re up by 28. At home. There’s no way they can possibly lose this thing.
And then …
Great game, great fans, great players but the refereeing SUCKS!
Oh Yeah.. ain’t nothing like the CFL.
Gotta love the old time clips, but P.E.T.
is part of our history too. Don’t have to like him, just accept he was here and is now gone.
Cheers
On the whole its ok. I would have deleted that Tony Gabriel catch along with the pic of Trudeau. I would have included Lancaster with the player from the past mentioned. Oh ya,George Reed too! Might have guessed by now that I’m a Rider fan!
Yep Bob…hated seeing that Gabriel catch again. But it was one of the 3 best football games I ever watched.
Go ‘Riders.
What no clips of the 1994 Grey Cup champion Baltimore Stallions?
Joe, me too, sniff.
I went to my first game (Taylor Field) at age 10 or so. I watched (and remembered) my first game on TV long before that.
I love the CFL, but I watch the NFL a lot, it isn’t the same. In the Sept-Nov time-frame, Sunday has both available, I choose the CFL over that other league, every time. I find the NFL _boring_.
I had to join the free fantasy football leagues just to get an interest in the NFL games. This was so that I could cheer for a team with players I had in my draft. Something . . . anything to spark some interest.
There’s a reason the CFL is compared to NCAA football in the States, the excitement on the field, the “everyman” players, the fan support.
The CFL is a great product and as much as people like to bang on the ref’s, I think they do an outstanding job for being part-timers and lovers of the game. Ninety-nine percent of the time, they’re right. The one percent that everyone remembers is usually in super slow-mo and every second is analysed by TSN commentators. Do it real-time . . . different story.
One thing about PET, I despise what he did to the country and my region, but he knew that the CFL was Our Game and he did celebrate it with us.
IMO, Harper would do well to practice his long snap catches. This is after-all, Our League.
12 straight sell-outs at Taylor Field, more to come. Have you got your teams tickets yet?
BC Lions
Edmonton Eskimos
Calgary Stampeders
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Winnepeg Blue Bombers
Hamilton TigerCats
Toronto Argonauts
Montreal Alouettes
Go to a game!
lance
Posted by: lance at July 30, 2008 8:14 PM
Yeah and sometimes I find my Seattle Seahawks nothing short of agonizing. Perhaps we Yanks could learn from your version of our continential game.
Oh and PMSH ought to play a game in the CFL too!
Go Bombers Go!
1-4 is irrelevant!
Go Bills !
That video is gary with a silent “r”.
Yeah a good vid, shitty seeing a dick like p.e.t. in it, why I ask was that any part of this??? The game is a lot fun, and includes some fabulous people!
Great ad. Gave me shivers, literally.
Except for the unfortunate shot of PET. For an ad pushing the “unity” message, it was a bit incongruous to show, even briefly, arguably the most divisive political leader in modern Canadian history.
That aside, I’d like to see this ad rolled out broadly in the Canadian media.
if CBCpravda would have done the piece we would have had Stanfield fumbling the football and PET at the start and Justin at the end.
The CFL game is a pony underneath a pile of marketing and ownership manure – its fans are just convinced that it’s under there somewhere.
I am not convinced. I see paralells to the kind of fanaticism exhibited towards CBC radio by many of the same people. Both seem well past their glory days.
And why the CFL continues with the suicidal strategy of blacking-out poorly attended home games is beyond me. It is why the ti-cats and agros are far less popular than the buffalo bills in the southern Ontario Market.
P.E.T. was not the only P.M.to do the ceremonial kick-off.Pearson and Dief. did as well.I can also remember a Rich Little L.P. where he does a routine of the two at the kick-off.Early 60’s I believe.He was excellent at both voices.
Awesome! Love the still pic at the front. That must be BC playing at the old Empire Stadium?
Man, that just looks cool with the North Shore mountains back behind the stands. They need to get outside again!!
Sea Salt: “What no clips of the 1994 Grey Cup champion Baltimore Stallions?”
Because the 1994 champions were the BC Lions. I was there, in BC Place, November 27, 1994. I remember it like it was yesterday, with Lui Passaglia kicking the winning field goal and over 55,000 people going nuts and not being able to hear for about a week.
I know I’m playing with semantics here, as the Stallions won it in 1995, but still.
Heh. Johann, I was in Vic for ’94. For a Lion’s win it was pretty tame.
I was at the game in ’95 when the Stallions beat the Stamps. I remember the last game of the season for the Riders vs. the Stamps. 55,600 fans in the GC seats.
We were a horrible team, but on that day, with those fans we made so much noise that the Stamps got their asses handed to them.
After the GC, Flutie was PO’ed. He thought that the crowd that beat him previously would be pro-Stamps in the GC and make the same difference.
Heh. Obviously he didn’t understand Rider-Pride.
f_in’ “A”!
FIVE AND 0!
wow great bit that film, only unfortunate thing is that the Grey Cup used to be for an even better game than it is now. It used to be for the best team game ever and still, and now it is just for football. /sad
Wow. I sometimes get cynical about Canadian patriotism but that is a vision of Canadiana I can get into.
I live in Ottawa. I hope it will be my league again some day.
Overall multiple winners: Toronto Argonauts (15); Edmonton Eskimos (13); Winnipeg Blue Bombers (10); Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Ottawa Rough Riders (7); Calgary Stampeders (6) B.C. Lions, Hamilton Tigers and Montreal Alouettes (5); University of Toronto (4); Queen’s University (3); Ottawa Senators, Sarnia Imperials, Saskatchewan Roughriders and Toronto Balmy Beach (2)
“Perhaps we Yanks could learn from your version of our continential game.”
Josef at July 30, 2008 8:29 PM
Football is Canadian, is was invented in the 1600’s by British replacement troops coming to the Citadel in Quebec. Canadian Universities introduced it to American Collages in the 1800s, by that time Canada had a professional league of sorts. Check the Canadian Football Hall Of Fame web site for details.