Yeah, as a Calgarian I'm segued into the glut of Canadian Football faithful who support the Calgary Stampeders. Or did. Because now, the Stamps are 0-4. Worst start in years. Last year, they started 0-3, ended 8-10, and ended up winning the league championship due to the retarded rules (four team divisions, all but last place team make playoffs, first-place team gets a bye).
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Originally posted by Freeway420Yeah, as a Calgarian I'm segued into the glut of Canadian Football faithful who support the Calgary Stampeders. Or did. Because now, the Stamps are 0-4. Worst start in years. Last year, they started 0-3, ended 8-10, and ended up winning the league championship due to the retarded rules (four team divisions, all but last place team make playoffs, first-place team gets a bye).
wait....75% of the teams make the playoffs??????????
silly canadians
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I would like to speak for the fans of Canadian football. And for both of us I say, let's hope the Stampeders turn it the hell around. I've been rooting for them ever since I saw Flutie throwing the ball around like a crazy man to like 6 different recievers. Ah the fun.
P.S. - Just for the record, I've never been to Calgary, and have only seen the Stampeders play live once, in Toronto. And the only really stupid thing in the CFL is having two teams with the same name (the Roughriders and the Rough Riders). Go figure.
OLD SYSTEM: The Eskimos and Alouettes would get byes. Roughriders vs. Stampders in Western Semifinal, Blue Bombers vs. Tiger Cats in East Semi-Final. Winners of Semis face respective bye teams, and the winners of those games play for the Grey Cup.
NEW SYSTEM: Since the Argonauts [the last place East team] has more points than the Stampeders [4 to 12], the Argonauts would take the Stampeders' place in the playoffs; So, it would be Blue Bombers vs. Tiger Cats and Roughriders vs. Argonauts in the semi-finals. Makes for a lot fewer shit teams making it into the playoffs.
And the Roughrider thing isn't that complicated: There WERE The Saskatewan Roughriders [one word] and the Ottawa Rough Riders [two words]. They're called the Green Riders, and the Rough Riders. Or, they were. Y'see, Ottawa folded and recently returned as the Ottawa Renegades.
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so, which team is the former Baltimore, MD, USA team that [almost?] took the grey cup, or did they just get folded by an angry CFL board
i know they got to the Cup final their first year out, and lost, and i'm pretty sure they took the cup in their second [and final?] year
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There were actually several American teams. The first four were the Sacramento Gold Rush, Las Vegas Posse, Shreveport Pirates, and the Baltimore Unnamed Team (CFL Colts). The year after they added two more but lost the Las Vegas franchise. At this point, all the American teams were struggling, so they folded all the clubs but Baltimore, and they became the new Montreal Alouettes, which hadn't been around in 9 years.
Originally posted by chazerizerAt this point, all the American teams were struggling, so they folded all the clubs but Baltimore, and they became the new Montreal Alouettes, which hadn't been around in 9 years.
PR: If you ask Dean nicely, he will tell you about how much he used to love the Stallions (Baltimore being close to Richmond helped) and how that love transfered to the Alouettes.
And Thank God the Alouettes fixed their helmets.
Of course, they blew a lot of their good will with me by signing Lawrence Phillips.
...that was around for one year, and then folded. Ah, how Memphians long for days when the football teams we had simply left town instead of folded. Of course, I can't say I understand the logistics of a CFL team in the US... makes about as much sense as, say, an NBA team in Vancouver. Oh, wait, that's the one thing Memphis did right.
And I think we all know that the American NHL teams are only there for the misplaced Canadians anyway. :)
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The Baltimore Stallions did defeat Calgary in the 1995 Grey Cup final after the losing on a field goal in the last play of the game to B.C. in 1994(when still the Baltimore CFLers after that dickhead Bob Irsay created the CFL Colts fiasco).
Baltimore, incidently is the only team to win a championship in the NFL(1958, 1959, 1968, 1970, 2000), USFL(1985 Baltimore Stars), and CFL.
Originally posted by GrimisThe Baltimore Stallions did defeat Calgary in the 1995 Grey Cup final after the losing on a field goal in the last play of the game to B.C. in 1994(when still the Baltimore CFLers after that dickhead Bob Irsay created the CFL Colts fiasco).
Baltimore, incidently is the only team to win a championship in the NFL(1958, 1959, 1968, 1970, 2000), USFL(1985 Baltimore Stars), and CFL.
yeah baby, Maryland represent!!!!
"You can't fire a gun in a confined space! What are you tring to do, make us deaf?!" "Just get out of the chopper." "What?" "Get out of the chopper!" "The crops!?" - Jack Lemmon and James Garner, "My Fellow Americans", and the reason I say "The crops?" instead of "Huh?"