Where are the saskatchewan fans?

Right Here!!  GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Riders!!!!!

Still trying to find a way to get the game that doesn't involve me selling my first born.

Let me also say go Stamps.................and take the Eskimos with you!

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pht....must be a Argos fan

rofl ... alta I would say that's mean but sadly true ... unless the Leafs have soured him on all sports? ;)

LOL My son and 22 of his buds had his stag  in Los Vegas this weekend. There they were in a hotel room sitting around a LapTop watching the Riders win. Too funny.

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Still no Sighs?  Or Riderguy?

Maybe closer to the Western Final?  Have we mentioned that it's in Regina?

I'm a big Saskatchewan Roughriders fan.  I would have put this topic in Religion and Faith :-)

TL

hahahahaha - Prayer request?

alwayr touching to see a saskatchewan crowd standing around cheering for a bunch of Americans playing a game invented in Montreal, and pretending a win by the American strangers means Saskatchewn has done something impressive.

Graeme you really should have paid attention when your mother told you what to do if you can't say something nice.

Besides that, you don't have a bloody clue what you're talking about.

au contraire. I can can tell you all you ever want to know about the history of football.

I can undertstand sport fandom - if the quality of the sport is the object. So to watch a good distrance runner is impressive. But I have never understood why hiring a foreigner to wear your city's sweater somehow makes your city and you in any way superior. I remember going to a football game with a friend who was crushed when Montreal lost. It was a personal loss; he mumbled something about being ashamed of montreal, and the impact this would have on the city...   bizarre.

My apologies Graeme.  Totally missed what you said.  Busy in the other room getting out my Roughies t-shirt and other stuff    

No prayer requests for Religion and Faith yet CH lol.

TL

Did you check the Riders roster to see how many Canadian and how Saskatchewan players they have?

Didn't think so.

who cares? I lived in Montreal in a day when most of the Canadiens were from Montreal. Whether they won or lost meant nothing to my life - owed nothing to any effort on my part, rewarded me in no way, harmed me in no way. I'm afraid, alta, you're having a problem seeing my point.

I remember in my last year of university, a fellow student asked me what I thought of the football team. I told him that I had never seen a game. He looked at me, shocked and angry. "I suppose you're proud of that.." Hell, I was neither proud nor unproud. I thought it irrelevant.

But I can see you care. Okay. i feel sorry for you. But don't expect me to take you seriously.

Tiger Lily, don't wear green. I'm sure i can get you a nice Montreal Alouettes sweater that would be a big hit at.......do you have a stadium in Saskatchewan? or is it just a field and you bring your own seats?

There's some talk of buying a team to play out of Moncton. I think they're out of their minds. The local popuiation is about 160,000. Toronto has been in some trouble - and I hear they have even more than a 160,000 population.

I always thought the Candian team with the most avid fans was Hamilton. I haven't seen them for years, but they were always a vicious team in the years I followed the league . In one year, the coach pushed a critical reporter into his hotel room and spent the night beating him so badly the reporter had to be hospitatized.

By the way, do people out west know that north american football originated in Montreal?

Do the people in the West Care.? Go Green!

no. people in the west don't' really understand football. It was invented in Montreal, a big city. Westerners, espcially those in Saskatchewan are stilll pretty much simple folk. Nice. But not sophisticated. I mean, if you were to wear a Montreal Alouettes sweater, people would really sit up and take notice.

I was in high school with a fellow who, I think, played for Saskatchewan a long time ago. He was tall, very handsome, always had the girls following him. He became a punter, I'm pretty sure for Saskatchewan, way back in the 50s. His name (again relying on a shaky memory) was Reggie Jackson - or am I confusing him with a baseball player of that name? Oh, I think maybe his name was Reg Whitehouse.

The west also had what I think is the only Chinese player in CFL history. Anybody remember his name or team?

oh - a point of curiosity. The name Rough Riders was chosen for Ottawa because rough riders were the men who manned the log rafts went down the Ottawa and St. Lawrence for shipment to Britain as timber.

But for Saskatchewan, it's Roughriders, one word. Does the name come from Teddy Roosevelt's regiment in the Spanish American war? Or does it have some association with the Canadian west?

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Graeme were you talking again??

TL

Well, who knows? They might win a game this year. Especially if Moncton gets into the league.

But you've never heard of Reg Whitehouse? He was a big name at Montreal High.

Sorry everyone I have been away from my computer for a few days!!!!!!!!Finally we have a West Final in Regina!!!

I still have a big grin on my face from the win the other day. The Roughriders grew from being the Regina Roughriders to the Saskatchewan Roughriders. You see, the fans of the team had spread all across the wonderful province, so the name changed when the whole province took over the team.

The name came from the North West Mounted Police, now the RCMP practise of breaking in wild broncos.

Graeme, sorry you feel so against the CFL and the Riders, perhaps it comes from watching the Als choke so much in the playoffs. I just hope it comes down to Riders vs Als in the Grey Cup so that Sunday I can wear my Riders jersey as I do the service and my friend who lives for the Als has to watch this.

Any way, just enjoy the game and the wonderful plays. It is a great game to get caught up in.

Go RIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah, so the name does have a Canadian origin. I wish I had known that in the years I taught sport history.

But it must get wicked playing there in late Fall, I should think.

That's home field advantage. But it also gets cold in Calgary,Winnipeg,Edmonton (BOO!!!!) , and Hamilton.

Rumour has it they are trying to get a dome built in Regina. The team has a pile of money now, and the team is drawing more and more fans. Hopefully it won't happen. But th eleague has not had a new stadium since The Sky Dome er the Rogers Centre. But Hamilton is supposed to build a new one for the Pan AM games.

Any way, GO RIDERS !!!!!!!!!!!!

I've never been crazy about domes or artificial turf. The game developed as an Autumn game, with all the vagaries that autumn can bring. I remember the Alouettes playing on a frozen field with spiked track shoes, and Toronto playing in a fog so think you couldn't see fifty yards. Dicey weather is part of what the real game is about.

I'm with you about domes and playing in real weather Graeme. 

TL

CALGARY------  ALL ------ THE --------WAY!!!!!!

calgary? Is that another western town?

omg StJudds.  That's like wearing your Calgary colours right in the middle of a sea of Riders fans at a football game.  Do you have any idea what could happen to you here??  I will pray for you. 

"Please keep St. Judds safe.  Help him to see the one true way.........."    :-)

TL

could I have a piece of him for a souvenir?

Judds, I will send you a watermellon.

Two things.

1) I once attended a Quebec Nordiques home game in a Calgary Cowboys sweat shirt. I had little trouble.

2) Now that the Stamps beat Edmonton, the finals in Regina are an afterthought to Calgarians. It's better to beat Edmonton and lose every other game than to lose to Edmonton, but win the Grey Cup.

Calgary and Saskatchewan next weekend. Woot!

two western teams? Bo-ring. \

I remember when I played for teacher's college. Our high point came when I blocked a punt and the other team recovered and scored a touchdown. I don't remember the final score. And I prefer it that way.

SIGH SNOOTLES IS IN THE HOUSE!!!!

get out your old green and white pom poms everybody and sing along with me...

GREEN IS THE COLOUR,

FOOTBALL IS THE GAME.

WE'RE ALL TOGETHER,

AND WINNING IS OUR AIM!!

SO CHEER US ON

THROUGH THE SUN AND RAIN,

SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS IS OUR NAME!!

lets show our pride for the green and white,

we will fight.

we will fight.

we'll give our all

till the game is won,

stand up and sing everyone!!!

GREEN IS THE COLOUR!!

...

here at taylor field

we are number one.

we're the best,

east or west.

something something something

something something one,

the best is yet to come!!!

GREEN IS THE COLOUR,

FOOTBALL IS THE GAME!

WE'RE ALL TOGETHER

AND WINNING IS OUR AIM!

SO CHEER US ON THROUGH THE SUN AND RAIN,

SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS IS OUR NAME!!!!

I guess its tough to find any line that goes along with Saskatchewan roughriders is our name.

You don't name any tune. Perhaps Funeral March of a Marionette?

Hey, Sighsnootles - You are here. ignore Graeme - he is a curmudgeon. Go Riders!!!!

Singing along with you Sighsnootles :-)

TL

To borrow a phrase from Corner Gas, "He once called a butterfly a jackass"

BTW graeme, the players you were trying to think of were Reg Whitehouse (who was not only a kicker but also on the offensive line- helluva tough guy in his day)  and Norm Kwong who was a fullback for the Eskimos and is currently the lieutenent-governer of Alberta.

I have one question for graeme: If your don't care about the CFL and the Riders in paticular, what are you doing in here??

I am compensating for feelings of outrage at the omission of the Alouettes.

Kwong was victim of the rule that the ball was dead when the runner's knee touched the ground. Normie used to make many a yard rolling after he was down.

Montreal High produced at least three NFL players in my years there. Two of them played for Saskatchewan. There was Reg Whitehouse and another fellow who was a close friend of Reg and went out west with him but never, despite impressive strength, a match for Reg. I don't believe he lasted.

The other was a very tough guy - and one whose name I forget. He played backfield for Ottawa, then Montreal, then lost both legs in a car accident. Always a determined athlete, he took up skiing again, with special equipment, and often appeared in TV ads for War Amps. oh - he was Karl Hillzinger.

Do they let Normie Kwong into the Calgary Inn yet?

He used to say that when he went in there, somebody would hand him their bags.

Ah - I miss the old town.

There was once a Gnow Stables because the Calgary Racing Committe said they couldn't allow a Chinese horse owner.

Back in the Seventies, several Calgary Stampeders were pimps as a side job. These guys were shuffled through American schools and colleges and couldn't read well enough to stack boxes in Safeway's (the CFL was really semi-pro then).

An enterprising ex-player set up a prostitution ring using very professional women, and no cop in Calgary would bust them as long as they worked for a player and otherwise kept their noses clean.

Calgary has a lot of history that wil never see a textbook.

The Brown Barrel Restaurant was on Eighth Avenue in downtown Calgary. Outside of lunch hour, it was sparsely populated with rather scruffy looking old men in heavy coats.

It was started by an old ex-army cook.  A veteran never got sent away hungry. Cops and city hall workers dined there because they knew were actually buying two meals. One for themselves and another for a war vet.

8 th Avenue and Center Street. South side of the block. They closed 30 years ago and sold the building for a princely sum.

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Judds, do you remember the name of the little chinese restaurant that was in Calgary years back. It was up some dark, dingy stairs into a plain big room. Food was awesome.

Judds, you have lived. YOu would have loved a couple of guys I knew in Montreal. One was a pimp and drug dealer who supplied the old Montreal Expos. He was also an ardent student of Black history, and a sort of black nationalist. He used to like me because I had supported some causes dear to him on the radio. For several years, he would be waiting to intercept me on the way to the station so he could fill me in on some more black history.

There was another black in Montreal (and you have to understand that Montreal was an extraordinarily racist city well into the 70s. A Black didn't have much chance at a job. the schools absolutely refused to hire a black teacher until almost 1960. So blacks often had to find work where they could get it.) in than context, there was a black man i used to see in downtown Montreal when I was in my teens. You could see him and pick him out immediately at any hour day or night in his top hat and tuxedo. Very dignified. But I could never understand why he was always so dressed up.

At last, one of my contacts in that world told me. He sold pronography. He needed a way all his downtown customers could identify him. thus the tuxedo.

Of course, this is a side of life with which westerners would be quite unfamiliar.

 Hubby and I were at the food bank today ( It takes WAY too long for EI to start coming in and we were just plumb out of everything.)  A guy spotted Hubby's Stamps cap and said "sorry in advance about this Sunday.".  Hubby just bought it because my daughter likes horses and it's a nice brown cap with a galloping horse on it. He is actually a closet Roughriders Fan.

the teams are playing each other this sunday? I hope one of them scores a goal. Or whatever.

I GOT GREY CUP TICKETS!!!