Tuesday Commentary: How Refreshing
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It’s Tuesday and time for the Good, the Great & the Ugly!
First the good: Fall has arrived. The calendar may not say it (it doesn’t officially arrive till Sept. 22) but you can feel that edge of heat disappeared over Labour Day Weekend.
And without question, Fall is for football. CFL, NFL, U.S. College, Canadian University, junior, high school and minor football.
I can see why many of my friends say this is the most wonderful time of year.
Next the great: A guy posted to the RP Show Facebook page on the weekend, wondering if it’s just him, or has the CFL gotten boring?
I replied that it’s just him.
Because in the traditional Labour Day Monday games, the underdogs were the big winners with Hamilton stunning Toronto 31-28 and Edmonton upsetting Calgary 35-20.
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m old enough to remember when Bo Levi Mitchell was considered to be washed up!
Meanwhile Edmonton and Calgary are now tied for fourth in the West but the Stamps get the nod because they’ve played one less game.
Don’t look now, but we’ve entered the final third of the 18-game regular season.
As for the Jolly Green Giants, they’re winless in six following a 2-point defeat to Winnipeg in the Labour Day Classic and on the verge of being overtaken by everybody.
But you know what? Their season could flip around just as easily as it took this nosedive.
I don’t think they’re dead just yet.
And lastly, the ugly: There’s a huge difference I’ve found with U.S. sports fans. I admitted in my weekend column that I’m befuddled by the blowouts we saw in Week 1 of the College Football season, and how the NCAA allows this to happen?
Scores of college fans wrote back, explaining how the schedule’s set up, how these underling, non-conference schools actually paid to play “the bluebloods”, and how these games amounted to nothing more than exhibition contests.
There was no scorn, nor ridicule for a guy who admitted he simply didn’t know, and was asking for help. They knew that I’d been buried in the CFL for 50 years, and weren’t condescending in any way.
How refreshing.
That’s today’s Rod Pedersen Commentary.
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There is no exhibition season in division one power conference football North Dakota is a fbs powerhouse. They were the team paid to get beat by Colorado. The money builds the facilities and now n.i.l. It’s not a joke. Build enough and what eventually happens is Appalachia beats Michigan. These games on TV drive recruiting and put Michigan in the wilderness for 25 yrs until St. Harbaugh took 9 yrs to bring back. The great Start the clock on Randy Ambrosie. I could give a ppt on this loser and why he needs to be dismisses with extreme prejudice Now… Read more »
Randy Ambrosie was the President of AGF Funds before becoming the commissioner. Running a big Bay Street financial firm seems like a pretty important job to me.
Maximum stays – 26 months. Takes a year for them to see what he can do. Takes 6 months after that to realize….hold the horses….3 month performance plan….last 3 months “without cause” letter and don’t let the door hit you on the way out. What exactly do big bay firms do? Pump and dump stocks. Get on analysis calls and tell companies to get their d.e.i and green scorecards up. I have said many times. There’s more respect to the junkie running into a 7-11 to rob it with a nail in a fence post. ….and what does Mr Bay… Read more »
The most important job is relative.
Have a blocked septic line in a rural area. See how important his skill in unplugging a clogged or frozen sewer line is.
You should watch Mike Rowe Dirty jobs. Maybe a little less so called university and a little more trade school eh?
He’s got a u sports football situation. Where football is not a priority for underfunded schools. The football programs teeter on the brink of collapse.
Does he combine the Vanier Cup with the Grey Cup?
Nope.
The bad teams get paid to get blown out by major programs. For a smaller program they can pay for a lot of their football program scholarships playing that one game. It is a hard way to make money though getting your head kicked in by 70.