I have not watched any CFL this year so I had no idea that the thing had gone to heck so quickly:
Die-hard fan Aymie Rondeau called for Saskatchewan faithful to purchase gopher puppets from the Riders' online store. "Our goal is to fill the stands with Gainers," she said. "The Stamps may be able to ban our beloved mascot, but you can never stamp out our Rider Pride."You may now fill in your own analogies to the US election, provide other puppet jokes, strain to link it to Harper's flip flop on new taxation or make comment about France. Where would the blogosphere be without France?
Comments
gr - November 2, 2006 8:21 am
That is one cute mascot, but even after reading that stuff I am unsure what the mascot problem is.
gorthos - November 2, 2006 8:56 am
People watch CFL? I actually THINK about watching it when the NFL is on break but trhen I don't and I feel no loss so the idea subsides for another year.
Go Patriots.
Gordo - November 2, 2006 9:48 am
I don't think about either of them: All Blacks rule.
cm - November 2, 2006 9:54 am
gr, according to the news last night, Calgary is refusing to allow the Riders' mascot onto the field.
gr - November 2, 2006 10:29 am
Huh? Why?
cm - November 2, 2006 2:09 pm
Sorry, missed that part.
Alan - November 2, 2006 2:14 pm
I knew it would come to this.
gr - November 2, 2006 2:37 pm
Got it. Maybe a little dog fight at half time to settle the problem? Damn cute gopher, though.
Paul in Kingston - November 2, 2006 3:27 pm
You see you just don't get this kind of heady mascot thrashing trash talk in the NFL. There it's always about what player is busted for what drug or for beating up which wife. In the CFL, eccentricty rules and that is always good. McDonald's and Budweiser hate eccentricity because they don't get it and it's too individual and unpredictably quirky to allow any success in mass marketing anything. The CBC and CFL like eccentricvty because they either don't have to sell anything or have long since given up trying.
Put down that Bud Light - resist the urge to run out to Taco Bell or buy a new pick-up truck - come and join us watchers of the CFL and share a home brew or two.
PS - the CFL is the only professional sport that I know that gets better on a crappier TV.
Alan - November 2, 2006 3:32 pm
<i>...the CFL is the only professional sport that I know that gets better on a crappier TV.</i>
Gold!
T-Bo - November 2, 2006 3:41 pm
Riders rule!
One of my former teachers in junior high coached the Hamilton Ti-Cats summers, and I fell in love with the game the first time I saw it. They were playing the Saskyriders, and George Reed and Ron Lancaster will always rank high in my sporting pantheon. Joe Zuger and Angelo (King Kong) Mosca too. In the immortal words of Ian McDonald...."Angelo Mosca...no milksop, he."
As Al once observed, the CFL is inferior players (to the NFL) playing under better rules. And how. I also love the Canadian college game...fun and unassuming. As for the Gopher, yeah, he's cute. He needs red eyes and fangs. A friend of mine in Ottawa told me, before a game we saw between the Ottawa (lesser, and two words) Rough Riders and the Greenies, that the loser would have to change their name.....Saskatchewan would become the Prairie Dogs and Ottawa the Capitals. I fell for it, for awhile.