rickyg's world

Just my random ramblings on my life and other things that might interest me at the time. For the summer and fall this will probably be populated with my ramblings about the Saskatchewan Roughriders CFL football team.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Damn!!!

Where to begin? I'll start with the bustrip. The way up was a good time. Maybe too good because I paid for it on the way home. I have to thank BigNorm for looking after my drunken ass at the game. A word to the wise, if somebody hands you a cup of booze and it tastes good it is probably not a good thing to pound it without asking what it is. It might turn out to be Vodka and Redbull. That shit will screw you up. Especially when you throw 12 beer on top of it. If you don't belieeve me just ask J.J. He ended up passed out on the floor of the bus. He says napping I say passed out and it's my blog so who are you gonna believe?

Now to the game. 14 yards in the first quarter. Do I need to go on? $350,000 a year and that gets you 3 quarters of work most games. I say give him a raise so we get the whole damn game!!!! Why not? A lot of people are happy with what he does for $350G why not give him $500G and make me happy? Do whatever it takes to get him to play a whole freaking game!!!! And wait, let me fill in the blanks that all the Joseph fans are going to say. He is hurt, he needs time to sync with the O(12 games into the season), the receiver ran the wrong route, he's the starter and people who know more about football than Rick see something so he must be great. People who know more about football also picked Aundray Bruce first overall in the NFL draft(who? exactly my point), Andre Ware was also picked in the first round by football people who know more than me and he got the chance to suck in 2 leagues, how about Rick Mirer? Another flop that was picked by good football people. Sometimes good football people are just as dumb as the rest of us when it comes to picking talent.

If we are happy with a QB with a strong arm, good speed, poor decision making and inaccurate throws right now then why weren't we happy when we had Nealon? And no I'm not joking!! Joseph is a much more expensive Nealon Greene. The only difference is that Nealon knew he couldn't win the game by himself and Joseph hasn't figured that out. But I will put that throw to Grant as Grant's fault for not catching it. It was one of a handfull of good throws that Joseph made this game. And it was still a little overthrown!!! Take away MattD and Armstead from this receivig core and see waht Joseph would do. It wouldn't be pretty at all. Those guys are studs!!! Super athletic receivers who still can't make Joseph look any better than average. This was the third game where our starter directly caused the loss. Big deal that it was close. It would have been a hell of a lot closer if Joseph could play the first 20 minutes of a game like a pro QB. Grant wouldn't be wearing the goat horns if we could have scored earlier. Or even converted a first down!!


But enough about that guy. The game itself was an experience. I admit that I went into Winnipeg expecting the fans to be assholes. But I was pleasantly surprised. Sure I got the "Sask sucks" and "Where did you park your combine?"(at your mom's like always) comments but we do the same thing when their fans are here. If you can't take the verbal abuse then you probably shouldn't watch a game in their park. Big deal if somebody calls you an asshole. That is to be expected. But what I didn't expect was the Winnipeg fans coming up and talking and high fiving and really making me feel welcome at the stadium. There are classy people in that crummy city. And General Taylor was one of them. A good guy who I spent most of halftime talking to. I would go back for another game, just not a hell ride up and back again because that takes a lot out of my beatup old body.

Anyway it's a bye week so how am I going to fill my morning? No practice to watch. I'm going to lose my mind this week. But at least TC has Football 101 to look forward to on Saturday. She should have a blast. I don't know how much more she will learn about football though. She is already a pretty knowledgable fan.


Thanks for reading and if you want to comment please do. You don't even need to use your real name. But it takes a while for Blogger to forward the posts for moderation to me so don't think I censored you if it doesn't get posted right away. I haven't censored anything yet and I don't plan on it. Maybe I'll spend the morning rewatching the game.

1 Comments:

At 1:08 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rider fan from Regina, but agree with your Winnipeg comments. Hey they are really just a big Regina 5 hours to the east! They, like us, are the real hearts of the CFL (shoot me for saying that:) If it wasn't for the Regina's and Winnipeg's this league would have folded long ago!

 

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