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A Moncton team would help my interest for sure!

I am heading out to Edmonton for Grey Cup this year and wanted to see if anyone else on here would share or comprehend my excitement. And the icing on the cake is that Helix are playing in town on the night of my arrival!

Fantastic KevO, that is some hardcore Canadiana that almost brings a tear to my eye!

I like this article (I bolded a couple paragraphs):

Good, James Harrison. Please do retire. Make good on your threats and go drive a truck like your father did. And if you have as many head-ons in that job as you do in this one, heaven help you.

Harrison, the Pittsburgh Steelers hired headhunter, is talking about quitting after being fined $75,000 for using his helmet to knock not just one Cleveland Brown out of the game, but two, then issued words that were even uglier than his deeds:

"I don't want to see anyone injured," Harrison said, "but I'm not opposed to hurting anyone."

I'm sorry?

"There's a difference. When you're injured, you can't play. But when you're hurt, you can shake it off and come back, maybe a few plays later or the next game. I try to hurt people."

Harrison does more than try. He purposely lowered his head into two Browns wide receivers -- Josh Cribbs and Mohamed Massaquoi -- sending them off to the "How many fingers am I holding up?" guy. Both men went for tests Monday, and it was uncertain whether either will play anytime soon.

No problem, says Dr. Feelbad.

"A hit like that geeks you up," Harrison said. "It geeks everybody up -- especially when you find out that the guy is not really hurt -- he's just sleeping. He's knocked out, but he's going to be OK."

It didn't geek Patti Drake up. She was a kind of surrogate mom for Cribbs at Kent State, where he was, believe it or not, a teammate of Harrison's.

"It sickened me," she says.

If we can have a rule that a player who suffers a concussion can't go in for the rest of the game, why can't we have the same rule for players who hand them out?

You know what would geek me up? Harrison out of the game. Because as much as I abhor the way he plays, I don't want the day to come, 10 years from now, when he starts suffering depression and slurred speech and all the other goodies that come with these massive crashes. Because no amount of sleeping is going to make everything OK then.

God knows how Harrison would've reacted if the NFL had done what it should've, which is to bench him for two games, one for each player he appeared to try to decapitate. If we can have a rule that a player who suffers a concussion can't go in for the rest of the game, why can't we have the same rule for players who hand them out?

The second to be suspended should be the refs in that Steelers-Browns game. Neither of Harrison's hits was flagged, even though both were purposely helmet-to-helmet and the second one, the assault on Massaquoi, was the blatant lighting up of a defenseless player. If the refs had flagged the first, we might not have had to watch the second.

And what does all this say about us? The Romans used to pack the Colosseum to watch barbarism and cruelty, a spectacle that dehumanized the fans as well as the combatants. Are we starting to become those fans?

New England's Brandon Meriweather head-butted Baltimore Ravens tight end Todd Heap in a shot so cheap and disgusting that you wanted to switch over to baseball.

Atlanta cornerback Dunta Robinson human-missiled Philly wide receiver DeSean Jackson so hard that both men were left concussed and sprawled out on the field as if they'd been leveled by a daisy cutter.

By the way, if you're counting, that's five Eagles who've been concussed this season. Hey, who wants to make the season two games longer?

All in all, seven players left games Sunday with brain injuries. It was the kind of Sunday that makes you wonder what kind of person you are for sitting there watching.

Watching men turn other men's cerebellums into oatmeal is starting to bring up the bile. We now know what these collisions can mean later in life. We know because the NFL is telling us. We know because we heard about what the battered brains of Hall of Famer Mike Webster and Terry Long looked like. Oh, yeah, they were Steelers, too, weren't they?

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin defended Harrison, saying he's a "model" for young players to imitate. Oh, yeah, he's a peach. Fined $5,000 for slamming Vince Young into the ground. Fined $5,000 for unnecessary brutality against a Cincinnati Bengal. Had to go to anger management and undergo psychiatric counseling after being charged with assault on his girlfriend. Owned a pit bull that bit his son, the boy's mom and his masseuse. When's he running for Congress?

Helmet-to-helmet hits involve two helmets. But when somebody asked Harrison whether he was worried about the long-term effects on his own brain, he scoffed. "That's the risk you take," he said.

An answer that begs the question: What brain?

Every year, I tell myself I am going to give the CFL another chance, but I can't seem to get past the whole 3 down thing. Plus the way that the NFL schedule works, I am able to condense all my passion into one wife-accepted wife-tolerated day. I wish the CFL all the best though!

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that's what she said.

4/10 too obvious.

My buddy Stewart and I considered camping outside the door of the Charlottetown KFC Sunday night.

The biggest reason I don't want it to change is because I think the league is perfect now.

They are, but how much do the starters play in those games? The young kids need the exhibition games to get familiar with the team and get a chance to show their stuff.

If we were doing the pick 'em every week thing this year, I would be doing horrible. Haven't been able to get a good feel, the league seems wildly disjointed and unpredictable this year(more than usual anyway), plus the injuries are piling up. 18 game season? Go fuck yourselves, owners.

Twas a pretty nice Sunday if you like to bet Pro Line ties....

I had a late game ticket that had Jets by 4 (you can't do by 8 in Atlantic Lotto), Min-Dal to tie and SF-Oak to tie....$4 for $96, saved by LT and a bad pass interference penalty, but then ruined by San Fran's late TD. You're welcome Booche (and Sloth). Just doing my part to make it easy for you guys to burn me.

Chili burritos and thick sliced ham sandwiches on fresh bakery bread were the order of the day yesterday(along with a couple Old Sam's, some Moose Light and DuMaurier Premieres). Since we always have to watch the Bears (host is a Bears fan), there was one point where Hester got a return TD to pull the Bears within 3 at the same time that Houston was charging up the field to complete their comeback and there were 3 of us standing up screaming at the TV. Good times.

Another goddamn linebacker out for the Pack! We are gonna roll the NFC when we get healthy.

God bless you Miami.

MOTHERFUCKER

Signature fixed accordingly.

Carey is looking good Sloth.

Glad we stuck by him all this time. Fuck you, naysayers.

I don't know whats going on in here anymore, other than my feeble attempts at humor failing miserably again.

Haha, rereading my post it almost sounds like I am actually angry! I guess I am supposed to throw some smilies in or some dumb shit?

Yes Punk, you are correct. I am pleased, almost as pleased as seeing this:

Vandelay Industries - 21.95 pts

That is the WRONG answer asswipe, instead of saying you are more pleased about me being in last place 5 days into a league that I couldn't give a flying fuck about, you could have maybe brought up the fact that my favorite team had 5 players knocked out Sunday, including their 3 most valuable players? That is just a bit more poignant to me, nice try though.

Motherfucker. You and Booche should be well pleased to know that your Redskins and Raiders ruined 2 Proline tickets of mine.

I have 3 days in a row off, my wife is away and my buddy has NFL Sunday Ticket. So much to be thankful for.

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Guigsy, I feel for ya brother. That was the worst thing I've ever seen.

Just signed in from a buddies place to say the same thing. Sympathies bro.

Good news...turns out I am related to Jean Beliveau.

At the same time the family of Louis Belliveau and Louise Haché (Gallant), from Tracadie, Ile Saint-Jean (PEI), lived in Miquelon. In 1774 France Biot married Marie Belliveau, the 24 year old daughter of Louis and Louise Haché, in Miquelon. Towards 1780 this family had to move to Rustico, because on May first, 1787, France Buote took a lease on a 50 acre farm located very close to the current church of Rustico.

Wow.

This is hitting hard...I am getting old. I have spent the past 15 minutes trying to figure out if that picture happened to me sometime in my life.

Those of us with high metabolisms and no conscience are well pleased.

Fuck, I missed the whole thing

Poor Fish....there's something particularly soul destroying about losing by turnovers and special teams. I didn't get to watch it though, just read the recaps.

Bah, I wish I would have joined this with you guys. I said I would be too busy, but I can't get enough football right now.