Comments on Rider Prophet: Calgary Photo Journal

Other cities place greater empahsis on their NHL t...

2008-08-07T08:47:00.000-06:00

Other cities place greater empahsis on their NHL teams, or MLB teams (which is odd since most of them are terrible) and so CFL takes a back seat. Here though, nothing is placed above the Riders (mainly because there is nothing else in this province).

It won't be long before gamedays are declared provincial holidays.

Ontario Anonymous, ONanon for short. ;)My question...

2008-08-06T17:53:00.000-06:00

Ontario Anonymous, ONanon for short. ;)

My question was, could this league survive if Rider fans stopped attending and watching games? Are we the last holdouts? There is no question we're nuts as far as the outsiders are concerned..But I suspect we're the last fans of a dying league.

Personally, I've never been able to stomach an entire NFL game perhaps because I have no money riding on the outcome.

My daughter and her family live in Kitchener and she tells me she's never met another CFL fan there except the odd Rider fan.

Ron

These photos prove only one thing: the only REAL T...

2008-08-06T17:19:00.000-06:00

These photos prove only one thing: the only REAL TRUE FOOTBALL fans bleed GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!! How else do you explain it?

When you TRULY appreciate football for talent, guts, heart and desire, you appreciate the CFL; otherwise, you caught up in the hoopla of the N[o] F[un] L[eague]. It's a lot like American Idol: they aren't really stars, they're just a product of hype.

As one TV commercial used to say: "You have to live here to get it".

Permit me a slight modification: "You have to live here, or been born in Saskatchewan, to get it".

GO RIDERS GO!!!

ON Rider Prider
Kitchener, ON

P.S.
Nice pics Proph!

Is the rest of this country too sucked in by the '...

2008-08-06T13:41:00.000-06:00

Is the rest of this country too sucked in by the 'America is better' thinking or are we so far behind the more sophisticated rest of the country.

In a way these pictures are very scary. What woul...

2008-08-06T13:36:00.000-06:00

In a way these pictures are very scary. What would happen to this league without Rider fans?

A co-worker (from Calgary once told me that 'no one cares about the CFL anymore except Saskatchewan people'. Another person (Total-CFL website)several years ago told me that Argos games average about 22,000 people per game even when the Riders are in town; but for the Riders the sea of blue becomes a sea of green.