I just read that the Baltimore Ravens have fired Mark Trestman leaving him open to coming back up to Canada if he wishes. I know the Alouettes could surely use his services again what with the dismal year they have had. Come on back Mark.
2016 CFL Season
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The Saskatchewan Roughriders held their workout Tuesday on Parliament Hill in Ottawa and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a surprise appearance.
A surprise appearance eh.............as if there was ever a doubt he would miss a chance to get his photo taken.......sheesh.
Saskatchewan Roughriders hold practice on grass in front of Parliament building | Globalnews.ca
Just came over from the Jay's game to catch the final seconds of the Riders vs Argos. Sask is ahead 29 - 11 with :34 seconds left in the game so I do believe they just might pull off another win.
Argos have the ball on 1rst and 10 - the Riders intercept the pass and will have the ball for the final :22 seconds of the Q
4 straight wins for my Riders...........gives me a lot of hope for next year. Hope I can catch a replay of the game
Way To Go Riders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Argos have the ball on 1rst and 10 - the Riders intercept the pass and will have the ball for the final :22 seconds of the Q
4 straight wins for my Riders...........gives me a lot of hope for next year. Hope I can catch a replay of the game
Way To Go Riders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Edmonton Eskimos should change name: Toronto mayor
By Shawn Jeffords, Political Bureau Chief
First posted: Monday, October 17, 2016 02:03 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, October 17, 2016 06:54 PM EDT
TORONTO - Toronto Mayor John Tory says the time has come for the CFL’s Edmonton Eskimos to change its name.
Tory, a former CFL commissioner, said while there are calls to ban the use of the name Cleveland Indians, it’s time for Edmonton’s football team to modernize and drop the Eskimos moniker.
“The people who have to step up first are the ones that actually own these franchises and say, ‘You know what, we recognize times have changed,’” Tory said Monday. “‘We recognize it’s 2016 and that these kind of things can’t really be defended any more on the basis of tradition.’”
Tory said the issue of changing the team’s name didn’t come up when he was CFL commissioner from 1996 to 2000. But in the time since, attitudes towards the name have changed.
“I would say it would be a very good step forward in a province where there are a number of issues that concern our First Nations and indigenous people, and that this would be a sign of respect and consistent with values in 2016.”
Tory said the team could also profit from switching names by holding a contest and letting fans pick a new one.
“I think everyone wins out of that,” he said. “The indigenous people will see that as a sign of respect. The community will be engaged in picking a new name for the team ... Not to be mercenary about it, but the team will have all manner of new opportunity to sell new material that’ll bring new life to it. It’s all good.”
CFL spokesman Paulo Senra said the Edmonton squad has a positive relationship with aboriginal groups across Edmonton and northern Alberta.
“They have been very careful, for many years now, to avoid any inappropriate imagery,” he said in an email to the Toronto Sun. “For example, their logo is a simple double-E. It’s up to the leadership of that community-owned franchise to decide whether the time is coming to revisit the team name.”
At Queen’s Park on Monday, Attorney General Yasir Naqvi would not comment on the Indians name controversy in his capacity as the province’s chief law officer, but said he personally believes sports teams should respect native communities with their choice of logos.
“Personally, I think there is a much more enlightened conversation that is taking place, not only in the sports field but all across (society),” Naqvi said.
— With files from Christina Blizzard
sjeffords@postmedia.com
Edmonton Eskimos should change name: Toronto mayor | Toronto & GTA | News | Toro
By Shawn Jeffords, Political Bureau Chief
First posted: Monday, October 17, 2016 02:03 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, October 17, 2016 06:54 PM EDT
TORONTO - Toronto Mayor John Tory says the time has come for the CFL’s Edmonton Eskimos to change its name.
Tory, a former CFL commissioner, said while there are calls to ban the use of the name Cleveland Indians, it’s time for Edmonton’s football team to modernize and drop the Eskimos moniker.
“The people who have to step up first are the ones that actually own these franchises and say, ‘You know what, we recognize times have changed,’” Tory said Monday. “‘We recognize it’s 2016 and that these kind of things can’t really be defended any more on the basis of tradition.’”
Tory said the issue of changing the team’s name didn’t come up when he was CFL commissioner from 1996 to 2000. But in the time since, attitudes towards the name have changed.
“I would say it would be a very good step forward in a province where there are a number of issues that concern our First Nations and indigenous people, and that this would be a sign of respect and consistent with values in 2016.”
Tory said the team could also profit from switching names by holding a contest and letting fans pick a new one.
“I think everyone wins out of that,” he said. “The indigenous people will see that as a sign of respect. The community will be engaged in picking a new name for the team ... Not to be mercenary about it, but the team will have all manner of new opportunity to sell new material that’ll bring new life to it. It’s all good.”
CFL spokesman Paulo Senra said the Edmonton squad has a positive relationship with aboriginal groups across Edmonton and northern Alberta.
“They have been very careful, for many years now, to avoid any inappropriate imagery,” he said in an email to the Toronto Sun. “For example, their logo is a simple double-E. It’s up to the leadership of that community-owned franchise to decide whether the time is coming to revisit the team name.”
At Queen’s Park on Monday, Attorney General Yasir Naqvi would not comment on the Indians name controversy in his capacity as the province’s chief law officer, but said he personally believes sports teams should respect native communities with their choice of logos.
“Personally, I think there is a much more enlightened conversation that is taking place, not only in the sports field but all across (society),” Naqvi said.
— With files from Christina Blizzard
sjeffords@postmedia.com
Edmonton Eskimos should change name: Toronto mayor | Toronto & GTA | News | Toro
How about the Edmonton African Americans? Seems pretty representative of the team.
Or maybe the Edmonton Yanks Who Weren't Quite Good Enough To Make It Into The NFL?
(I know, that's completely unfair. The Canadian game is different, and after watching it carefully, I conclude that your best players, whether Yanks or Canadians, are as good as the best NFL players. But that's the common perception.)
Or maybe the Edmonton Yanks Who Weren't Quite Good Enough To Make It Into The NFL?
(I know, that's completely unfair. The Canadian game is different, and after watching it carefully, I conclude that your best players, whether Yanks or Canadians, are as good as the best NFL players. But that's the common perception.)
Hamilton Ti-Cat Bradon Banks has been suspended for two games after failing a drug test. Bad news for the Ti-Cats who are second in the East after the Redblacks especially as.....
"The five-foot-seven, 157-pound Banks has 29 catches for 355 yards and four TDs this season. He has 59 punt returns for 569 yards and a touchdown and has also returned two missed field goals for touchdowns.
Banks was the CFL's top special-teams player last year after returning four punts for TDs, one short of the single-season record."
Ticats' Banks suspended for positive test
"The five-foot-seven, 157-pound Banks has 29 catches for 355 yards and four TDs this season. He has 59 punt returns for 569 yards and a touchdown and has also returned two missed field goals for touchdowns.
Banks was the CFL's top special-teams player last year after returning four punts for TDs, one short of the single-season record."
Ticats' Banks suspended for positive test
Pretty exciting game tonight between Ottawa and Hamilton played most of the night in a cold steady downpour. The final in double OT was 39 - 36 for Hamilton who with the win tie for top spot in the East with Ottawa and secured a home-field advantage in the play-offs. The lousy weather contributed to a near record number of TOs on for both teams.
Will be doing a lot of channel switching today as my Riders are playing host to the Montreal Alouettes and, the Heritage Classic gets underway at the same time. At least the Cubbies game doesn't start until both of those are over.
In spite of their many losses this year, the Riders actually have 1 more win than the Als who sit at the bottom of the Eastern conference and the Riders have a winning record in their last 4 games.
GO RIDERS................GO!
In spite of their many losses this year, the Riders actually have 1 more win than the Als who sit at the bottom of the Eastern conference and the Riders have a winning record in their last 4 games.
GO RIDERS................GO!
Underwhelming first half of football due in part to the lousy weather in Regina today but still not a single TD so far and the score at half-time is 6 -5 for the Als. Riders are once again committing way too many penalties costing them valuable field position. Hope things pick up in the second half.
Noticed that tonight. Was watching the steelers lose to the cowboys and then noticed on the other TV and thought, "Oh hey look CFL"
I'm such a terrible Canadian with horrible values.
Me too. I'm from Winnipeg and favour the Bombers but I watched the Cowboy/Steelers game as well
Blizzard like conditions in Ottawa today for the first game of the Division finals as the Redblacks prepare to take on the cross-over team Edmonton Eskimos.
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The Eskimos are hoping to make history today as the CFL's first cross-over team to win a trip to next weeks Grey Cup Championship.
Visions of an all-Alberta Grey Cup are dancing in many fans' heads, but before you start buying tickets (still available) and booking airline seats to Toronto let's discuss. The CFL was, is and always will be a quarterback-driven league, and this week's matchup in the crossover final between Edmonton (11-8) and Ottawa (8-9-1) is among the most intriguing of recent years, especially since it brings together 2015's Cup entries.
Enter stage right Mike Reilly, Edmonton's slinger who led the CFL with 5,554 yards passing and who helped his best receivers — Adarius Bowman and Derel Walker — finish 1-2 on the catching charts.
Enter stage left Henry Burris, back to being Ottawa's starter four games ago after injury took his job once, and inconsistent play a second time. Since going back under centre, the old fella (41) has completed 80 of 113 passes (70.7 per cent), for 1,149 yards, four TDs and three picks.
Reilly has been the better leading man in 2016, certainly, but he's also dragging a lot of baggage on stage with him, most obviously a shoulder ("upper body") injury that has fans worried he's going to be doing Richard III instead of Henry V.
That bump happened on play 106 of last week's playoff victory at Hamilton, sending Reilly out of the game for James Franklin. However, something was already up a few weeks ago, it says here.
At Hamilton on Oct. 28, Reilly went 18-for-31 (58 per cent) for 239 yards, and back in the Hammer last week he was 10-for-19 (52.6 per cent), 133 yards before exiting early in the fourth. Reilly had been plus-70 per cent all season until those starts, and Hamilton is not that good a defence.
Burris, on the other hand, had his own drama going on, setting himself up as Falstaff earlier in summer stock when he soliloquized at the TV hosts, broken-hearted at being forgotten by those he felt he'd supported.
That made him angry, and he's been playing great football behind centre for the Redblacks — passing, running, cajoling, leading the Men in Plaid to a pair of wins and a tight loss.
Burris will be the better QB this week, but two things can upset this tale told by a potential idiot (actually I was 1-1 last week) — the sound and fury of Edmonton running back John White, who had 20 carries for 160 yards vs. Hamilton (the team, not the Duke), and the long-distance kicking of Sean Whyte (43-of-43 inside 50 yards).
And there's some teeny tiny trouble, about the size of a little forest fairy — the Redblacks are 2-7-1 at home since early summer, hardly a dream record.
The pick: Ottawa
CFL playoffs: Picks for the division finals - CBC Sports - Football - CFL
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The Eskimos are hoping to make history today as the CFL's first cross-over team to win a trip to next weeks Grey Cup Championship.
Visions of an all-Alberta Grey Cup are dancing in many fans' heads, but before you start buying tickets (still available) and booking airline seats to Toronto let's discuss. The CFL was, is and always will be a quarterback-driven league, and this week's matchup in the crossover final between Edmonton (11-8) and Ottawa (8-9-1) is among the most intriguing of recent years, especially since it brings together 2015's Cup entries.
Enter stage right Mike Reilly, Edmonton's slinger who led the CFL with 5,554 yards passing and who helped his best receivers — Adarius Bowman and Derel Walker — finish 1-2 on the catching charts.
Enter stage left Henry Burris, back to being Ottawa's starter four games ago after injury took his job once, and inconsistent play a second time. Since going back under centre, the old fella (41) has completed 80 of 113 passes (70.7 per cent), for 1,149 yards, four TDs and three picks.
Reilly has been the better leading man in 2016, certainly, but he's also dragging a lot of baggage on stage with him, most obviously a shoulder ("upper body") injury that has fans worried he's going to be doing Richard III instead of Henry V.
That bump happened on play 106 of last week's playoff victory at Hamilton, sending Reilly out of the game for James Franklin. However, something was already up a few weeks ago, it says here.
At Hamilton on Oct. 28, Reilly went 18-for-31 (58 per cent) for 239 yards, and back in the Hammer last week he was 10-for-19 (52.6 per cent), 133 yards before exiting early in the fourth. Reilly had been plus-70 per cent all season until those starts, and Hamilton is not that good a defence.
Burris, on the other hand, had his own drama going on, setting himself up as Falstaff earlier in summer stock when he soliloquized at the TV hosts, broken-hearted at being forgotten by those he felt he'd supported.
That made him angry, and he's been playing great football behind centre for the Redblacks — passing, running, cajoling, leading the Men in Plaid to a pair of wins and a tight loss.
Burris will be the better QB this week, but two things can upset this tale told by a potential idiot (actually I was 1-1 last week) — the sound and fury of Edmonton running back John White, who had 20 carries for 160 yards vs. Hamilton (the team, not the Duke), and the long-distance kicking of Sean Whyte (43-of-43 inside 50 yards).
And there's some teeny tiny trouble, about the size of a little forest fairy — the Redblacks are 2-7-1 at home since early summer, hardly a dream record.
The pick: Ottawa
CFL playoffs: Picks for the division finals - CBC Sports - Football - CFL
