Arland Bruce III, a fooballer for the Toronto Argonauts, has been fined tens of dollars by the Canadian Football League for his actions after scoring the first touchdown of the 2009 CFL season.
Detroit Free Press reporter Steve Schrader writes that Mr. "Bruce took off his helmet, shoulder pads and jersey, laid down in the end zone and pretended to be buried---as a tribute to Michael Jackson. Said Argos coach Bart Andrus: 'I made the mistake of telling him in camp that once he got to the end zone I didn't care what he did.'"
This is the same Mr. Bruce who back in 2006 accused the referees in the CFL of being racist, their racism apparently affecting his ability to catch the ball as opposed to his lack of hand eye coordination affecting his ability to catch the ball.
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Showing posts with label Canadian Football League. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canadian Football League. Show all posts
Friday, July 3, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
419...This Is Canada
July 1st, mid summer, Canada Day, hot, sticky, rainy, first day of Canadian Football League, economic crisis, festival season in Our Home And Native Land so, of course, the front page of the Ottawa Sun is
H O C K E Y
Not that we are obsessed or anything.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
372...Grasping At Straws In Ottawa
In a move that to The World Famous Dan Shields smacks of desperation, the Lansdowne Live group, a group of business men that want to transform ancient Lansdowne Park, the fair grounds and football and hockey venue in the heart of Canada's capital, into a commercial and play mecca, are throwing support behind the return of football to my Alma mater, the mighty U of K, Carleton University.
Football was killed at Carleton over a decade ago because the team sucked and because the team sucked they had hardly any fans.
Oursportscentral.com reports that Carleton University is currently working with former Raven cornerback John Ruddy, current president of Trinity Development Group, in concert with other donors on a business model that would fully fund a football program through outside sources. Once the business model is established the university would be required to apply to the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) for permission to field a team.
The Lansdowne Live people also intend to bring back the CFL to Ottawa in the form of an expansion team.
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Football was killed at Carleton over a decade ago because the team sucked and because the team sucked they had hardly any fans.
Oursportscentral.com reports that Carleton University is currently working with former Raven cornerback John Ruddy, current president of Trinity Development Group, in concert with other donors on a business model that would fully fund a football program through outside sources. Once the business model is established the university would be required to apply to the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) for permission to field a team.
The Lansdowne Live people also intend to bring back the CFL to Ottawa in the form of an expansion team.
WFDS
Thursday, June 4, 2009
208...Statistics and Lies
I believe, working from memory here, I believe it was Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who later would be honoured by having Eric Clapton's band Cream name an album after him, that said something like "Statistics and lies are similar". And if he didn't, well, someone else did.
Point being.
In yesterday's Toronto Star which, of course, also serves the Hamilton, Ontario market, there was a statistic, a poll to be more accurate, that Jim "I want an NHL team" Mr. Balsillie paid for in both Hamilton and Phoenix, Arizona, the home of the hopefully future Hamilton Steelers of the NHL.
[Get to the point.]
Right.
Point being, what was polled was the preferences each community had for local professional sports leagues. What smelled of bulls't was that in Phoenix. Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix, Arizona, USA. In the Southwest corner of the United States of America allegedly 3 per cent of the Phoenixians [?] follow the Canadian Football League.
Get out of here.
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Point being.
In yesterday's Toronto Star which, of course, also serves the Hamilton, Ontario market, there was a statistic, a poll to be more accurate, that Jim "I want an NHL team" Mr. Balsillie paid for in both Hamilton and Phoenix, Arizona, the home of the hopefully future Hamilton Steelers of the NHL.
[Get to the point.]
Right.
Point being, what was polled was the preferences each community had for local professional sports leagues. What smelled of bulls't was that in Phoenix. Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix, Arizona, USA. In the Southwest corner of the United States of America allegedly 3 per cent of the Phoenixians [?] follow the Canadian Football League.
Get out of here.
WFDS
Sunday, May 31, 2009
178...This Is Why We Need The CFL In Ottawa
Matt Dominguez.
Never heard of him? That's okay, he has never heard of you.
Seriously, he is a Texas boy who ended up in Regina playing for the Saskatchewan Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League and now, his career in, best case scenario, its twilight, is continuing to live in the city that rhymes with fun working for a real estate company and living with his wife and two children in that town's north end.
Here is why you should care.
Men like Matt Dominguez bring a different flavour, the flavour of diversity, to markets like Regina, Saskatchewan. I think it is safe to posit that when growing up in Georgetown, Texas, Mr. Dominguez didn't know who, what or where Saskatchewan was. Now he is an important member of the community. What got him there? Professional football.
Flash to my town, Ottawa. If it wasn't for the Riders [may you rest in piece] we wouldn't have a Lone Star Restaurant, Local Heroes and a number of other things that give the city flavour. Ditto the 67s, Gatineau Olympiques and Senators.
That is why we need the CFL [and NHL, and the OHL and the QMJHL] in Ottawa.
Not at any cost; I subscribe to the Neil deMause's Field of Schemes philosophy, but we need 'em.
Just don't use public money [or as much public money] on the teams, ca va?
WFDS
Never heard of him? That's okay, he has never heard of you.
Seriously, he is a Texas boy who ended up in Regina playing for the Saskatchewan Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League and now, his career in, best case scenario, its twilight, is continuing to live in the city that rhymes with fun working for a real estate company and living with his wife and two children in that town's north end.
Here is why you should care.
Men like Matt Dominguez bring a different flavour, the flavour of diversity, to markets like Regina, Saskatchewan. I think it is safe to posit that when growing up in Georgetown, Texas, Mr. Dominguez didn't know who, what or where Saskatchewan was. Now he is an important member of the community. What got him there? Professional football.
Flash to my town, Ottawa. If it wasn't for the Riders [may you rest in piece] we wouldn't have a Lone Star Restaurant, Local Heroes and a number of other things that give the city flavour. Ditto the 67s, Gatineau Olympiques and Senators.
That is why we need the CFL [and NHL, and the OHL and the QMJHL] in Ottawa.
Not at any cost; I subscribe to the Neil deMause's Field of Schemes philosophy, but we need 'em.
Just don't use public money [or as much public money] on the teams, ca va?
WFDS
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