Jonathan Doupe 🇨🇦 🏈 🚀

Sounds like one of the great dissertations on Canadian identity.

"Hyperspace makes me nervous."

I'd prefer Standard Time year round. In northern Alberta we don't need an extra hour of daylight in summer and it's good to have some light in the morning in November. Plus how many astronomers want to wait the extra hour?

Ok, didn't notice it on the list - #2 makes sense.

104th Grey Cup: Redblacks defeat Calgary 39-33 (OT). What's more, it was a huge upset.

Why would the 'Tycho' ray at the bottom left be tangential to Tycho rather than radial? Does it actually belong to a slightly younger, but now obliterated, crater or is it actually from Tycho (and somehow the dynamics of ray formation led to this?).

This shows that football numbers are considered as 'text' rather than 'number' format (as in Excel). If the number of retired jerseys gets out of control, hexadecimal numbers would be an option: 0,1,,2,...,9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10, 11,...,19, 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F, etc.

The Johnson rules are driven primarily by marketing, and game play is a secondary concern (add Canadian NFL fans, develop US TV market, and get games/teams in foreign stadiums). That's why the BoG did this and not the rules committee. I do like the r.c. mods on play clock (keep 20 s in 3 min. warn).

It might be good policy for the CFL to make some modest investments in senior football so that these rule changes could actually be tested before being implemented in the CFL. The XFL did extensive tests of their modified kickoff rule before it was used in a game (now it's in the NFL).

🤔 I knew it.

Might be a faulty memory, but I thought Pinball Clemons was a player-coach for a game back in 2000 (?) during that turbulent period. Or was it just discussed?

Remember the rouge in the Grey Cup this year being a good rouge (it was a decision to return or not), whereas the rouges in the Vanier Cup were of the bad variety (especially a missed field goal that was impossible to return). I'm OK with the 2026 CFL change in this rule.

Make sure you wear it everywhere you go.

Proposal for #CFL rule change implementation. 2026:go ahead (benches,rouges,play clock) but be open to tweeks. 2027: for CFL only, move goal posts back 15 yd, draw endline there, rest field remains the same. This makes it much easier to share field with universitities. If it sucks, go back in 2028.

CFL knows there's this huge pool of Canadian NFL (but not CFL) fans. Some will never look at CFL, but they figure a certain percentage could be enticed if irritants (e.g. missed FG rouges, goalposts) are removed. But they need to maintain as many traditional fans as possible. Esp. true in Toronto.

I'm always OK with this type of rouge. Too lazy to run it back, so he bought 35 yards with a point.

Poor people of Hamilton - first the Jays, now this.

Should have gone for it on that 3rd down.

Anyone know if the Hamilton Wildcats had their own distinctive cheer to counter 'Oskee Wee Wee'? Even today I always hear 'Tigers' eat 'em raw, not Ti-Cats.

I sense the BC Lions will take it.

Was this an attempt to angle the ball out of bounds to just beyond the goal line, but it went out at the 3 yd. line instead?

Remember that. It was always a good hike.

But you said no strings.

Of all the differences between Cdn and US football, the 110 yd. field is the one I feel least sentimental about (the width is a red line for me). We can always mark the centreline with a 'C' even if it's the 50. The new dimensions open up so many possibilities for game sites (esp. Halifax).

There was actually a big perception problem, within Canada, about the missed field goal counting for a point when not returnable. And I'm talking people that preferred Cdn football to US. That's the one rule change (21 yr. season ticket holder) that I'm 100% behind. Like the rest but not as much.

But we've watched thousands of hours of hockey.

Doesn't Trevor Harris make this list?

Interesting. Thanks.

So it was definitely longer than the McCallum one?

They really like ex-Argo QBs.