If you are American and reading this, it's the Canadian Football League's playoffs. We take our football seriously, especially in the West. That's what enables someone to walk around in a shirt that says "CFL: Our balls are bigger" without snickering.
My plan for Saturday was simple. Watch the Edmonton Eskimos show the rest of Canada why their city is called "The City of Champions" as they surprised the citizens of Manitoba by beating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, vacuum the house and watch the remainder of the Saskatchewan Roughriders creaming of The B.C. Lions.
The Edmonton Eskimos won by only a touchdown. It was fun to see the foreign football players discover why Manitoba's capital city gets called "Winterpeg". As soon as I saw all the snow, I knew the Eskies would win. That's one team that definitely knows how to handle winter conditions in the fall. Due to Big Lug having to work, I was able to teach Kidlet how to cheer for the Edmonton Eskimos. Let's GO EskiMOS, Let's GO ESkiMOS, Green and Gold RUUSHHHHHHHH, GOOO ESKIES GOOOOOOO, DeFENCE, DeFENCE. Next week it will be even easier to cheer for the Edmonton Eskimos because it will be English versus French, prairie upstarts versus original settlers as the Eskies travel to Montreal to take on the Montreal Alouettes. Nah nah nah, heyyy heyy, goooood-bye. I'm just warming up for the end of the game next Saturday.
In the jungle, the mighty jungle of Mosaic Stadium at Regina, it started out with the roar of the Rider fans. I take exception to anyone who calls Rider fans buffoons or says they need to get a life. The Roughriders are their life. Saskatchewan has never had an NHL team. They have always had the Roughriders and the older the province gets, the more enduring Rider pride becomes. Besides, as both a football fan and a technogeek I can understand how someone would dye a Chewbacca costume green to wear to a Roughriders game. I wanted Saskatchewan to win because on the off chance the Calgary Stampeders lose next Saturday, it would give Big Lug a team to cheer for during the Grey Cup finals. I even had a blog half mentally written, about Rider Nation arriving in Calgary. When I finished vacuuming and looked at the score, I did a double take and said "What the frick?" Kidlet was in the room or I would have used a different word to express my feelings.
As the game regressed, I found myself feeling sorry for Country 105's Scott Phillips. He has no qualms about admitting to being a loyal Roughriders fans. Thankfully Calgarians tolerate Rider fans. Rider Nation is too strong to be assimilated no matter how many years someone has lived in Calgary. My sympathies to all the Rider fans. Here’s hoping the Stamps do to the Lions what they did to the Riders and Prairie Pride is triumphant this Saturday.
I'm hoping for an Edmonton Eskimos versus Calgary Stampeders for the Grey Cup. One way or another, it means the Grey Cup gets to be in the West for a year. I'm also hoping on Grey Cup Sunday, November 23rd we'll be sitting at the Calgary International Airport waiting for the triumphant Calgary Stampeders to return with the Grey Cup.
Proverbs 10:24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
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