Grey Cup Goes to BC

Well, starting next year it will be 22 years since the Winnipeg Blue Bombers have hoisted the Grey Cup, Canada's symbol of professional football supremacy. The last time they did so was a 50-11 victory over the Edmonton Eskimos in 1990 in the very same BC Place

Last night, the Bombers fell short on a fourth quarter comeback, as Lion quarterback Travis Lulay held strong and picked apart the unnormally weak Winnipeg secondary to lead the BC Lions to victory in the 99th Gery Cup game.

I am not happy. I thought (just as I did in a 2001 loss to the supposedly inferior Calgary Stampeders) that this was the Bombers year. Not since the days of the vaulted Winnipeg defense of James West, Tyrone Jones and Greg Battle have the Blue and Gold put fear into the opposing quarterback's eyes and doubt into their coach's mind.

After 7-2 start, one would think that they would find an answer to a club that started 0-5 and over-achieved the rest of the season, even though the Lions own defence ending up being stellar throughout the last few weeks of the season. That wasn't the case and perhaps "Swaggerville" was a bit over-confident going in.

The last time the Bombers went this long without a championship was between 1962 until 1984. Twenty-two years. Yep. Another 22 years since the Winnipeg Blue Bombers hoisted the Cup. And now they'll do it again, if not longer.

Maybe a change of scenery will change their luck as the Bombers say goodbye to their 58-year-old historic home (which has only hosted two Grey Cup games in it's long and proud history-which is pathetic for an original and storied CFL franchise) and move into their new diggs in the east part of the city for the 2012 season.

So next year begins yet another quest in a bid to end the Canadian Football League's longest championship drought. I wouldn't quite put them in the same category as the Buffalo Bills who lost four straight Super Bowls between 1990 and 1993, but the Bombers are 0-5 in Grey Cup appearences since 1992; losing in 92, 93, 2001, 2007 and now 2011.
How long can such a successful franchise go without being champions? I mean after all, they're not the Maple Leafs.

Tom Sawyer Intro

If you've never seen this (as I didn't until recently) here's a really cool intro during a RUSH concert, incorporating a South Park segment.

Oh What a Bunch of Crap

Like any gunner or pilot of the Enterprise would ever be able to get a bead on the Falcon.

If anything, it would go like this...

Be Careful What You Wish For

What would happen to Wile E. Coyote if he actually caught the Road Runner? Everybody's thought of it at one time or another. But has anybody though what would become of Wile E. if he had all that extra time? What would become of his genius? Would it wither and rot?

Bombers Beat Tiger Cats to Advance to Grey Cup

It's been 21 years since my Winnipeg Blue Bombers won the Canadian Football League championship, hammering the Edmonton Eskimos 50-11 in 1990.

Since then the Bombers have gone 0-4 in the Grey Cup Final losing in consecutive years in 1992-93 and then twice more in 2001 (losing to the 8-10 Calgary Stampeders, a team that was two games under .500 and shouldn't have been in the playoffs. The Bombers should have won this game...handily)and the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2007.

To get to the dance this year, they had to endure losing eight out of their last 10 games after starting the season 7-1.
They managed to get the bye in the Eastern Final only due to the Montreal Alouettes losing their last game of the season as they and the Bombers were tied atop the East at 10-8 and although the Bombers also lost their last game, they had won the season series against Montreal 2-1 giving them the division title.

They then defeated the overwhelmed Hamilton Tiger Cats in the East Final to go to this year's Grey Cup championship.

This time the game is at the opponents home field as the Bombers play the BC Lions at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver. This is the second time Winnipeg and BC have faced each other in the Grey Cup game. The first was in 1988 in Ottawa. The Bombers won that thriller, 22-21.

Drunk Octopus

I don't know how long this image has been around the internet, but I laughed out loud when I saw it.

Smokin' Joe Frazier Dead at 67; Muhammad Ali, Other Greats Pay Tribute

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Smokin' Joe Frazier has succumbed to the liver cancer that he had been battling. He was 67.
Muhammad Ali, Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather all paid tribute to the late, great champion.