....congrats to the Lions for the Grey Cup victory....a well played game all 'round...kudos to DD for his tenacity and to McCallum for erasing old demons....
Was not really a classic by any stretch of the imagination, as the reffing pretty much sucked! Cahoon was being grabbed the whole game, it reminded me of that "hand in my pocket" commercial. The city of Winnipeg put on a great spread, and the parade was even better, adding the Grey cup and christmas parades together.
Man, isn't this sad. We're now up for another 7 months without football. sight
I'd like to thank my Als for stretching this season to the max once again. We may not have won the Grey Cup, but on November 19th, we were still playing football.
Congratulations to the Lions, they deserved the win by being the team that made the fewest mistakes.
As an Als fan, I can say that after the first half, the team could have folded up and mailed it in. It was nice to see such an inspired effort in the second half, particularly by the D, who played one of their best games of the season at a time that it mattered most.
Yes, ditto for me as well, congrats to the BC Lions and all of their fans, the best team truly won.
We are all looking forward to next year and it will be a long time coming now that football is done for 06.
Plain and simple...the better team won. All year long, ain't no denying - the Lions were the team to beat and few could.
The Al's made it interesting and my hat's off to them for coming out in the second half and making a go of it...unfortunately, too little too late for them.
And I have to agree; from the replays I saw, there was nothing indisputable there; but on the other hand at that point in the game what did we have to lose? Oh well, back to the drawing board for 2007…
With the way replays have been going this year, there was no reason not to challenge the call. My guess is that the spotters told Popp that they saw it come loose, otherwise had they told him it was too close to call, I'm sure he would have challenged.
Is your quanity of challenges reduced if you win? I mean if you have 1 challenge and 1 time out left and you win the challenge. Do you now still have 1 challenge and 1 time out or 0 challenges and 1 time out?
I think the real problem for Montreal today, was that they didn’t fake enough injuries. A couple more guys falling down after the play, like they had been shot, right after a team mate on the sidelines motioned for them to go down, and it could have been a completely different outcome.
Glad to see the players involved were miraculously able to walk off the field under their own steam. It would have been a shame if the ambulance had had to come out for any of these devastating injuries.