Just Saying

18 Replies to “Just Saying”

1. Toronto is out. It is a nothing game.

2. The sandals are all out protesting.

3. Has the CFL considered hiring ‘Bad Bunny’? Or some Paliwood star?

   1. The BC Lions have had 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg perform at their home openers. Rather successful, from all accounts. Can’t say I attended those but I go to the odd game. I much prefer CFL to any 4 down football.

      1. I look forward to P.Diddy appearing at a BC Lions game, where the end zones are as large as the stolen land they are built upon … in a few years. I’m certain that will also be a success.

         Maybe also a ‘Pride’ parade at halftime? And of course a Palestinian flag color guard dance routine

         1. The NFL field looks like the CFL field scaled down for girls. With all the wide open spaces offense rules to the point than they only have 3 downs. Offense normally sells tickets.

            1. You forgot the ‘fair catch’ rule in the NFL … is totally for the sissies.

            2. Fair catch is for sissies but so is the CFL’s 5 yard restraining zone. I guess we gotta keep punt returners alive somehow. Kickoffs in the NFL look pretty contrived. I’m not sure I’ve figured out what they are doing. Anything that slows people down and discourages them from making the longest kick is BS. The single point in Canada rewards field position and kicking and I like it.

         2. I think the MLS has the stranglehold on Pride celebrations.

4. Hard to cheer in a burka…kinda like a silencer.

5. Aren’t sports stadiums much more useful for public executions back “home?” I bet that’ll bring in plenty of sandals … but no rocks from home. Only branded stadium rocks can be thrown, serial numbered for the event so you have to buy new each time attending/participating.

   1. The Edmonton Executioners.
      You have an incredible future in marketing, Bluster.
      Team-branded Burkas would be swell.

      1. Other possible new names: Saskatchewan Sheepriders, Winnipeg Suicide Bombers, Montreal Allahettes.

         1. And to lure in Bramptonites: Ottawa Reddots.

      2. That is a pretty bad ass name for a sports team.

6. I spent my early life watching CFL games on TV. When I got older I used to go to lots of games in Edmonton. Then I got old and didn’t like walking in the stands at Commonwealth Stadium. Neither me nor my kids can watch games on TV because they are so effing greedy that they only put the signal on paid sports TV. Then my team disappeared. The Edmonton Eskimos were replaced by the Edmonton Eunuchs losing 10,000 fans per game in the process. Now they are going to change the rules to NFL lite. When I can watch a half dozen NFL games per week for free, why would I even consider watching the short peckered CFL version? The average CFL fan is 96 years old and unless a prospective young fan gets sports TV, football to him is the NFL and only the NFL. The CFL will keep shrinking until Poof! It’s gone.

7. Never fails to amaze me at how many examples that continue to arise showing the average intelligence of Canadians. When the government continues to remove money from your wallet for pie-in-the-sky government promised programs it leaves less money in your wallet for your own ambitions and desires. For an example when the government taxes Canadians through the carbon tax for the energy they consume they are in effect taxing us into oblivion. Living in a sub-Arctic zone we use vast amounts of energy to maintain a reasonable standard of living. When that energy is taxed by the government to the extent that it reduces our standard of living we don’t demand a change in policy we collectively allow the government to double down on failing policies.
   Stupid is as stupid does and there is nothing more moronic or more stupid than Canadians that think they are setting a moral example to the world while running towards extinction.

8. For the many that cannot connect the dots in my previous post let me point out that the carbon tax as applied effects everything in the stadium that you purchase from the fries and hotdogs to the beer and the lighting in the stadium. You the ultimate end consumer, ultimately pay the entire carbon tax that manufacturers and producers have to pay to stay in business. The carbon tax applied to the stadium lighting is part of the increase in seat prices and the direct result is less ‘sandals in the stadium’! Doesn’t take a chartered accountant to work out that the more money the government takes the less money you have to spend on amusements and entertainment, but an ex- Governor of the Bank of Canada figures Canadians are too stupid to work that out, and sadly he’s right.