After firing their previous GM, the TiCats decided that they needed someone with a bit more experience this time around so today they turned to Bob Hoskins look-alike, Bob O’Billovich to turn the course of their wayward ship. I’m excited to see what effect high quality management will have on my under performing team – I hope for big things…
watched this in Denver with my friend on opening night and it was awesome!
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SLC > MSP - I can like Soderbergh, I want to like Carano and the supporting cast is pretty awesome but this movie felt like a big miss. The acting was not great (that was expected), the story was incomprehensible and could only be traced by action scene to action scene and the characters were very under-developed. The stunts were (probably) all done by Carano which for the fighting scenes was pretty cool but lots of the other stuff felt like it could have been better. All told, I'd love to see her in more movies (or a tv show) even though this one was not that great.
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Good performances, interesting characters, good location, and a simple story well told. All that said, I liked it, but I didn't love it. Best quote was, "Give you kids enough money to do something but not enough to do nothing."
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An honest look at the most successful but certainly not the most loved athlete in UFC history, Anderson Silva.
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Documentary about the rise of Air Guitar in the States and it's popularity worldwide. The first few minutes it seems to be really bizarre to be taken so seriously but by the end it begins to seem much more normal.
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OK, so this isn’t news to anyone reading my blog, but I’m really glad that Sask got the win in the final – the whole province is just a little happier right now. My only sadness is that for Milt Stegall, I like him and wish he could have won a Grey Cup in his career, too bad.
Side fact: Next year, or sometime in the next 20 years, my TiCats are going to be contenders again, mark my words.
Although I missed watching the game, I was busy cheering for the Roughriders in my mind. And they won!! Yahoo – first trip to the Grey Cup in 10 years! Their opponent in the final is their arch-nemesis, Winnipeg (sans starting quarterback) so it should be a fitting way to end the year for both teams – what a great match that’s going to be.
Oh, and thanks to Andy for cheering for Sask in person, I think it helped!
The Roughriders have not only delivered on the first home playoff game in ~20 years but they’ve also won it by a squeaky 2 points! I didn’t have the pleasure of watching the game as I was on an airplane at the time but I was really glad to read that when I landed. They’re going to beat the Lions as long as the Lions home field isn’t too noisy for them…
So, with the TiCats recent loss to the Alouettes here in MTL, they’ve officially eliminated themselves from playoff contention for the year; hopefully they can improve on their 2-12 record though because that really stinks.
My second favorite team, Saskatchewan Roughriders, are really in the hunt for a playoff spot and gunning for the top of their conference; the problem is that they’re playing the not-playoff-bound-TiCats in 2 of their remaining 4 games and winning them would prove vital to their hosting a playoff game. I don’t know if I have the ability to cheer for a team playing the TiCats – even if I know it’s for the greater good of Sask’s advancement – I’m in a real loyalty pickle…
So, another season is virtually a wash for the TiCats at 1-8 but they’ve made another big signing with the acquisition of Printers off his unsuccessful NFL attempt. For the TiCats, their record in the last 5 1/2 years (99 games) is 27-71-1 and they haven’t gone over .500 at all in those years. Nowhere to go but up, right!!
Well, it’s no worse than other years so I guess I’m optimistic. Here’s what cfl.ca had to say, “Hamilton (0-3) is now the CFL’s lone winless squad.” Ahh, music to my ears… This is the price I have to pay so that in 30 years when these guys win the Grey Cup, no one will be able to say I’m a bandwagon jumper…
Hamilton is trying to pull together all of their talent with a better coach; so they signed Taaffe – I really don’t know much about the guy but he comes pretty highly recommended, so I’m optimistic…
Rob’s back in Edmonton for another year – way to go!
Brown re-signed with the Eskimos for one year plus an option. He started all 18 games in his return to the Eskimos. He led the team in quarterback sacks with 12 and recorded 20 defensive tackles, four tackles for a loss, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery. He was named CFL Lineman of the Week for his pair of tackles and three sacks versus Hamilton on September 16. He was the 2006 Eskimos nominee for Outstanding Defensive Player.
So, normally, I don’t cheer for Montreal for reasons I won’t get in to but today in the Grey Cup final vs. BC I was cheering for them (I wanted Tom to get another ring!) but I think that was their demise as they lost pretty convincingly to BC.
On a brighter note: Sask Huskies have made it to the Vanier Cup again – and it’s being played in Saskatoon! That game is being played next weekend and I sure hope that they can win it!
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