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Apologies for the delay in posting my sentimonies. I’d like to say its because I partied too hard on Grey Cup Sunday but the truth is I’m just old and the desire to go to bed won out over the desire to pen a blog. What I lack in quality and punctuality I make up for in… err… redeeming qualities too numerous to enumerate right now.
Anyway, What. A. Game!
I was legit concerned I was about to watch Winnipeg just sack Fajardo for 3 hours but from start to finish that was a competitive, exciting game. Add in Green Day at half time (who were outstanding, though I am unabashedly biased in that assessment because I love Green Day) and the Bombers losing for a second year in a row in the dying minutes… well sir, that may just be the best Grey Cup I’ve watched in years.
Here
are my Random Quasi Coherent Grey Cup thoughts:
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One
could make the case that the Riders found a far more efficient way to not win
back to back Grey Cups.
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I
kid. After 30 years of absolute misery I hope Bomber fans don’t take 4 straight
appearances and 2 Cups for granted. That’s a damn good run.
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But
also, screw them and I was very, very happy they lost.
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Watching
Green Day really brings home how badly the half time show was mailed in Regina
last year. Also, very happy Green Day didn’t censor their lyrics. Even better
they didn’t get sucked into a stupid in game interview.
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Lots
of revisionist history in the wake of the Grey Cup. I know you are all shocked
that its happening in Saskatchewan.
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First
of all, at the time we traded away Collaros it was widely believed he was done.
Hell had we kept playing we would have been called inconsiderate monsters. We
made a call based on what we knew at the time. Looks bad in retrospect but
also, I doubt Collaros is still alive if he had to play behind our OL as
opposed to the best OL in the CFL.
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Same
thing with Cody/Maas. Fans would have rioted if either were back. I like Cody and
think the change of scenery was what he needed. Again, had we kept either of
Maas or Cody I doubt our season would have ended any better.
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Also
(and I hate that I have to keep defending O’Day but the man has his faults but
let’s at least be fair about we blame on him), yes other than the QBs, they
Grey Cup featured many former Riders (Demksi, Hardrick, Neufeld, Lemon, Tuck and
Harty) but the first 4 left prior to O’Day being GM and the last 2 are hardly
key contributors. O’Day has his faults but not being able to preemptively stop
GM Chris Jones’ errors isn’t one of them.
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Now
Willie Jefferson you can blame on O’Day. He didn’t think he was a priority
signing in 2019 and Winnipeg reaped the benefits of that dumb call. Also, while
we did try to retain Sankey, I’m sure we didn’t try our hardest because we knew
we had Dean. No offense to Dean but Sankey is better.
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Montreal’s
punter was awful. Like so awful I’m surprised Maas didn’t hurl a Gatorade
container at him.
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For
the degenerate gamblers out there (aka me and my buddies) the coin toss was chaos.
We bet on head/tails but all we got was logo/cup. Had that occurred in the NFL
the betting world would have exploded. In the future please just say “the logo
is heads” to appease us degens.
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Lastly
anyone who is pretending to be offended by Dequoy’s French rant need to calm the
hell down. First of all never discourage emotional rants in interviews. Way
more interesting than regurgitated generalities that most interviews are full of.
Second: he was right. The league screwed up an didn’t bother with any bilingual
signage. A) the Grey Cup is a celebration of everything Canadian and we are bilingual
country. B) When you are trying to attract more fans to the game doing something
to piss off the core fans base of one of the teams in the game you are trying
to promote is a big oopsie. Dequoy called them out and swore in French. I’m all
for that.
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