Real Football returns North of the Border

[Upnorth]

Holy crap, what a great night in the CFL. The riders come from behind to beat Hamilton and move to 4-3 on the season in a good game and great 4th quarter by our team. But just before that the sad sack Toronto Argonauts beat the great Winnipeg bluebombers!!!!! Could not have been better for the rides last night

[Upnorth]

So going into week 9 we have the riders in 3rd place in the west due to a better division record over the eskimos, both at 4-3. Calgary and Winnipeg are tied at 5-2 with Calragry having the intra division advantage.
The east has Hamilton at 5-2 followed by Montreal at 3-3.

The Riders play at Montreal in what has become a suprisingly important mid season game for two teams in separate divisions. Another important game is Calgary @ Winnipeg for 1st in the west.

Go Riders GO!

[Upnorth]

Riders continue their win streak after a weather shortened game. Ww got two defensive touchdowns and our o basically forgot to show last night, but a win is a win.

Winnipeg leads the West at 6-2 with Saskatchewan Calgary and Edmonton all fighting for second at 5-3.

[esoxx]

Really hate weather shortened football games, save that crap for baseball.

Football is a game that needs to be played to the end given inherent strategies and physicality involved. You run certain plays to get looks which you exploit later in the game based on adjustments made. You also wear down a team, some strategies purposely knowing you're likely to only get a small gain but it's part of the wear factor for later. It's schematic.

They either need to cancel game in advance due to weather forecast and reschedule, or replay the game from the start, or cancel it altogether. All three of those options based on weather are better than allowing the partial game results to stand.

Same applies to the NFL. If they start accepting partial game results based on OH NO THE WEATHER then the game of professional football will drift further to WWE territory with joke results. Much like we got with the absurd QB sack rules last season. Ridiculous.

[Upnorth]

Huge games this weekend with the labour day classic schedule. The games this weekend are looked forward to by fans all year but for the riders there is an extra incentive to win. 8-2 first place in the West Winnipeg comes to 6-3 second place in the West Saskatchewan. If the riders can win we turn around and go to Winnipeg next weekend for what is known as the banjo bowl.
This may not mean a lot for most of yo, but think of it like back to back home and away bears weeks.

Go Rider's Go!!!

[Vincenzo]

Huge games this weekend with the labour day classic schedule. The games this weekend are looked forward to by fans all year but for the riders there is an extra incentive to win. 8-2 first place in the West Winnipeg comes to 6-3 second place in the West Saskatchewan. If the riders can win we turn around and go to Winnipeg next weekend for what is known as the banjo bowl.
This may not mean a lot for most of yo, but think of it like back to back home and away bears weeks.

Go Rider's Go!!!

Yes, the Argos play Hamilton on Monday. Argos are having a great year, if they win the Labor day classic they’ll chalk up their 2nd win of the season. Arrrrrrrrgoooooos.

[Upnorth]

They beat winnipeg and I am sooooo grateful for that.

[Upnorth]

Riders win the labor day classic 19-17 on a last play of the game field goal. Drive started on our 5 with less than 3 minutes. Thing of beauty. Going to Winnipeg next week playing for first in the West!

[Upnorth]

Well, yesterday didn't go to well for the riders. They had a chance to get first place in the West by beating Winnipeg but they chose not to show up. The 31-10 loss was our first loss in the last 7 games and it came against a team with their back up QB starting. The first drive of the game had we had Winnipeg backed up to their 5 yard line but they scored after a big pass interference call in our end zone. It seemed like the team just didn't want to play after that.
We are at home against Montreal next week so we should bounce back with a win.

Also of note, the best QB in the league (imo) bo Mitchell Levi came back to Calgary this week and they destroyed Edmonton so they have become more dangerous again as well.

[Upnorth]

Riders beat Montreal in a close game. Go riders go!

[Upnorth]

So the riders have won the West division crown this year! Means we get a bye week, home field playoff game and the inside track to the grey cup.

Go Riders go!

[Radagast]

So the riders have won the West division crown this year! Means we get a bye week, home field playoff game and the inside track to the grey cup.

Go Riders go!

Don't follow the Grey Cup. What record did your team finish with?

[Upnorth]

13-5 in the highly competitive West. Hamilton won the east with a 15-3 record. Edmonton came in 4[th in the West but had a good enough record to beat the third place team in the east so they get to cross over into the playoffs in that division.
Round one has Montreal hosting Edmonton and Calgary hosting Winnipeg

[Upnorth]

So the riders lost to Winnipeg in the western division final on Sunday.

We had the best short yardage running team in the league. We had 5 tries at the 1 yard line on our last two driver.... Nothing.... They put our running QB in on one play. All he has done is run 1 yard sneaks from under center all season. They come out in shotgun.... Wtf

[pbmax]

So the riders lost to Winnipeg in the western division final on Sunday.

We had the best short yardage running team in the league. We had 5 tries at the 1 yard line on our last two driver.... Nothing.... They put our running QB in on one play. All he has done is run 1 yard sneaks from under center all season. They come out in shotgun.... Wtf

Tendency breaker. The tendency of succeeding.