THURSDAY COMMENTARY – THIS WEEKEND: DIG IT
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Covid knocked the football schedules completely out of whack, perhaps never to be the same again.
But it’s landed so that this upcoming weekend may be the biggest weekend of the year in football!
Maybe it just seems that way due to the combatants but the Hardy Cup goes this weekend at Griffiths Stadium in Saskatoon between the UofS Huskies and UBC Thunderbirds. So that’s big. It’s the last-ever Conference game for Regina’s Mason Nyhus and I encourage you to tune in.
And the CFL Division Finals are massive, and somewhat historic. Montreal and Toronto haven’t met in the East Final in a decade but they will at BMO Field on Sunday followed by the BC Lions at Winnipeg in the West.
In 68 years of football, the Lions and Bombers have never met in the West Final.
Of course we all wonder if Nathan “WestJet” Rourke can continue the Cinderella season for BC and the nation seems to be with us, as last week’s Lions/Stamps playoff game was the most-watched sporting event in Canada.
The debate over the CFL stubbornly keeping its playoff games on Sundays, despite avoiding the NFL all year, is a good one. I’ve enjoyed watching the commentary on it but have to side with the CFL on this one. An analyst on Stamps Radio CHQR 770 put it best last weekend saying, “If you’re not watching CFL playoff football today, you’re never going to watch it.”
It was a great point. Plus we tried it once in 2008 and it was a major flop.
Throw in Week 11 in College Football and Week 10 in the NFL, and there’s no reason to leave your living room.
The biggest weekend used to be Grey Cup, the Vanier Cup and U.S. Thanksgiving with its NFL tripleheader, but those days seem to be gone.
But that’s okay. Change is a very good thing.
That’s today’s Rod Pedersen Commentary
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Hey Rod, your comment…….It’s the last-ever university game for Regina’s Mason Nyhus and I encourage you to tune in. Not so fast, he has 2 more game after this one with the final game being the Vanier!!! heeeeheeee
Hi Rod.
Sorry to be that guy, but Sunday will be the fourth time BC and Winnipeg have met in the West Final, having met each other in the West Final in 1983,1984 and 1985. It will be the first time that they will play each other in the West Final in Winnipeg, as the three previous meetings were in BC.