TORONTO — The Ottawa REDBLACKS, BC Lions and Saskatchewan Roughriders can all secure playoff spots this week, while the Winnipeg Blue Bombers could either clinch the West Division or earn a home playoff game.
It’s perplexing how the riders struggle year in year out in a 9 team sometimes 8 team league to make the playoffs with any consistency. 4 Grey Cup titles in a 100 plus year franchise history highly indicates a overall organizational structure disfunction not conducive to professional sports.
Winnipeg won 2 Greycups in this century and that is same as Riders 
Best case scenario for me. Winnipeg loses to Hamilton. Bighill and Winnipeg’s coach are caught on tape during game with comment that its time for him to do his usual. Immediately after the coach is caught on video talking to the head referee. Two plays later, on a low tackle by Bighill, Hamilton’s quarterback is severely injured and has to be taken off the field on a stretcher. No penalty is called. The crowd, Hamilton team members and coaching staff are visibly incensed and even the TV commentators are amazed no penalty is called. The game is temporarily halted, and on resumption of play a penalty is called against Bighill by the CFL control centre. Several days later, the league announces indefinite suspensions for Bighill and the head coach and that it will conduct investigations into officiating.
Saskatchewan beats Edmonton 36 to 9. No major injuries. Montreal loses bigtime, having gone into the game with swollen heads and leaving with broken heads. BC loses with Rourke being ineffective. Adams is put in, intercepted multiple times and then replaced by Rourke. Andre Proulx announces he is retiring from officiating, admitting that he is legally blind.
That is the best case scenario for me.LOL.
Adam Bighill is out for the season so your best case scenario is out the window. Sorry.
If BC and Saskatchewan win, Edmonton and Calgary are eliminated. Hamilton cannot be eliminated from playoff contention this week but can be eliminated from the crossover with a loss to Winnipeg. If Hamilton loses to Winnipeg, their only path to the playoffs would require them to win their last two games (vs. CGY, at OTT) AND that Toronto loses their last three (at WPG, vs. OTT, at EDM). If this were to happen, Hamilton and Toronto would have identical 8-10 records and it’s bye bye Argos.
I would agree. 19 trips to the GC and only 4 wins. 2009 took the cake!
However, the 29 year wait for the Bombers between 1990 and 2019 was also an amazing achievement!
I didn’t realise he was injured, mainly because i think of him as being almost indestructible. If Putin ever does his final freakout and launch an all out nuclear attack the only living organisms left will be rats, cockroaches and Adam Bighill.
Its not perplexing when you considered historically the Riders play in the smallest city in the league and had the lowest payroll and potential fan base, Only over the last 30 years have the Riders been financially successful enough to match the salaries offered by other CFL teams. Add to that the inexplicable preferences the league offices have for Toronto, Montreal or BC, bizarre occurrences like Phony Tony’s time-keeper aided last second catch in a Grey Cup game, and yes the 13th man episode and to me the surprise is that they were allowed to win 4 Grey Cups.
Please don’t bring politics into my world. I am Ukrainian. BE CAREFUL. FYI it seems to me you don’t like the Blue Bombers very much and that’s fine. I’m well aware that you are a Roughriders fan. Whatever floats your boat.
DavidHickie;
The Saskatchewan Roughriders CFL Football Franchise nothing but floaters. Excuses Excuses DavidHickie, enough with the excuses trying to justify a club that struggles year after year. The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a “bloated organization” operating on a old outdated mentality run on nepotism that drags that Football Club down.