Damnit, Mark, we're not supposed to say!

I'm sorry, but ... there's no way around it, really ... I'm going to have to report you.

The CFL is great fun. I wish the U.S. expansion in the '90s would have worked out a bit better, though ... hey, maybe my Sacramento Gold Miners T-shirt is worth something?

Multiple men in motion ... the one-point "rouge" ... 1-yard neutral zone ... man, Canadians are good at making up fun games!  

Go, Lions!

FormCritic wrote:I would be OK with launching a cow or chicken into space...so long as that does not reduce the supply of cows and chickens to eat here on Earth.

Mmmmmm....dog!  Now there's a meal!  

When I worked out in Wyoming I was going along this very straight piece of road doing 100 miles an hour.  Way off in the distance I see this spec in the middle of the road.  Five seconds later I see that it's a Prairie Chicken!  Less than a half a second later I see this humongous ball of feathers in my rear view mirror!  Wow!  Free range chicken blow up REAL good!   I'll never run over an ordinary chicken again.

Seriously, when I was in China I visited a meat market and there was this dog all chopped up into big, easily recognizable pieces.  They even eat the head.  His head was just laying there looking up at me.   Definitely creepy.

jasonw1239 wrote:
EDIT: I always liked that BC Lions logo. The lion looks so....happy!  

Hell, MORE than happy....he looks like he's being serviced by Ms. Lion.....

Xaxaxe wrote:I also like the Toronto Argonauts, though ... what a great, D&D-sounding nickname.

They are actually named after the city rowing team from the rowing craze of the late 1800's.

Every year the Canadian sports networks pumps them up as "this is their year!"

I have always been a bit of a Montreal Allouettes fan.

Halifax does not really have a big enough market to support a major sports team, even CFL.

Now if they put it in Moncton, we are central to the Atlantic Provinces and have a population base of over 1 million people within a two hour drive. That is why we have had big concerts recently like the Rolling Stones on their last tour and are a stop this summer for the Eagles tour.

Topically enough, the largest UK supermarket Tesco has just voted against
improved welfare standards for chickens:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7476829.stm

I believe it trades in the US under the name "Fresh & Easy"

Cheers,
Malc

Mars wrote:What always made me wonder is that with 8 or 9 teams why were two of them named Roughriders?

I think I remember that it was from a merger, right? There was like a western-based league and an eastern-based league, and initially they were rivals and then they eventually merged? And, just for a bit of fun, both leagues happened to have "Rough Riders" as a team nickname.

I think it's something like that. But I'll be damned if I can remember which one of them is one word and which uses two capital Rs.

Badmike wrote:Hell, MORE than happy....he looks like he's being serviced by Ms. Lion.....

Unlike the BC Lions who are the VERY happy riders.