On of the Forbidden Website Board of Directors just emailed us after visiting the Coliseum in Rome. A few jokes bounced back and forth:
“Did you find our seats??
“What’s the Alumni Room look like??
“Are the visiting dressing rooms up to Doug Brown’s standards??
But it really got me thinking. IWS is like a modern Roman Coliseum. What if we had been owned by Hadrian, Nero and Tiberius instead of Ballard, Braley and Grant?
Dancing Don MacPhereson would have been stoned at center field
Adrion Smith would have never played for the Argos – he would have been hung from the goal post after the dropped interception against the Western Riders kept us from the playoffs. The same goal post that a drunken fan climbed and sat atop for over an hour at the end of that game.
Anthony Calvillo would never have won a Grey Cup with Montreal. The Tiger in the end zone would have been unleashed upon him during his disastrous 1996 season.
Ozzies two finger gesture to the crowd was reminiscent of the Emperors “thumbs up or thumbs down? judgment against a fighter.
Would TC still be allowed to drive his “chariot? around the battlefield?
Last year, they broke right through the gates, just as our Imperial Senate was imploding under its own hubris. All the attention given to forbidding chants and confiscating sippy cups blinded them to the need to outlaw the weapon-toting hordes descending upon us from Toronto. If not for the quick action of the Forbidden Website (who promptly reminded them how the Argos $uck!), they may never have been driven off:
"drinking from chalises", now where have I seen this before.
One thing I'll say about Ivor Wynne, and I've been a proponent in the off-season about a new stadium, is that once the season starts and I go to the games, wooden benches and all, the old girl is one fine specimen even with it's warts and rusty spots. Guess I'm sort of a nostalgia freak afterall.
Hey woody....make sure your toga has a big Winnipeg Blue Bomber logo on it, now that you're officially in the "Blue Bombers to win the Grey Cup" camp. :roll: