Alright...part of me feels horrible but there's a huge part of me that thinks this is absolutely hilarious.
Please tell me you laughed. If not...I guess I'm just a horrible person. I'm just lucky I didn't fall because I know during half-time I was playing my vuvuzela like it was a guitar. Lucky, I guess.
I promised I wouldn't talk about Grey Cup anymore so I think I'll make my last entry (for one year) about it tomorrow. I guarantee it this time.
All day long I've been trying to figure out what to write about on my blog. Heck, I'm not even sure if anyone reads or I just do this for fun! As a Rider fan, it's really hard to get the Grey Cup off my mind and write about something else. Maybe I should just dedicate the rest of this week to the Grey Cup. Monday too.
For some odd reason, I have a very good feeling about this game. I'm usually a "cautious optimist" when it comes to the Riders but I'm a straight up optimist this time. Talking to all kinds of Rider fans brings me down though. They have been pessimistic and nothing else. Come on. I have one word for you...believe. Rider Nation has made a name for itself just by believing and supporting this team through thick and thin. Do it.
Now I want to share a funny e-mail with you that I got today.
Prayer Courtesy of Paul Tobin:
Our quarterback
Who art in Edmonton
Darian be thy name
Thy game be done, thy will be WON
In Commonwealth as it was in Mosaic
Give us this game, The Grey Cup Game
And forget about Calgary's whiners
As we forgive those who can't measure up to us
Lead us not into interception
But deliver us from Calvillo
For thine are the Riders
With the Power and the Glory
Forever and ever
Amen!
The Saskatchewan Roughriders have done it! They beat the "Best team in the CFL" and sent them golfing to earn themselves another trip to the Grey Cup! The third time in four years, in fact. The biggest lead of the game was eleven early on when Calgary came storming out of the gates. From there, Saskatchewan shut them down and won 20-16.
There was, however, a play in the game that eerily resembled last year's Grey Cup game with Montreal. In the fourth quarter, a Montreal player fumbled a punt while they were down and with three Roughriders standing around him, he recovered. If Saskatchewan had recovered that fumble, we would be talking about how they would be defending their championship on Sunday but instead, we're talking about how they are looking for revenge. Click here to check out the similar play that happened in yesterday's game. Was it meant to be? Maybe.
There are so many factors pointing in Saskatchewan's way this year and that's a rarity. Usually the odds are stacked up so high, it's almost impossible to overcome. It's going to be like a home game for the Riders on Sunday and they're riding a three game winning streak going into the big game. Plus...the team that has eliminated B.C. from the playoffs has won the Grey Cup every year since 2003 (B.C. won it in 2004). Guess who did it this year!
Hollywood writers couldn't have thought up a better script. Montreal beat Saskatchewan last year on the infamous "13th Man" penalty. Saskatchewan ousted Montreal in the season opener in a 54-51 overtime thriller. The 98th Grey Cup is going to be a classic.
I've been showing my Rider Pride all week long...been wearing different Roughrider gear every day hoping it brings good luck. This Sunday is the big game! Riders and Stamps. It's becoming quite the rivalry in the CFL with the Saskies eliminating Calgary from the playoffs three of the last four years. I like that.
Nik Lewis has already opened his mouth saying that the air in Calgary is "thinner" so the Stampeders have an advantage. There are also rumours flying around that a security guard at McMahon Stadium is a Roughrider fan so a Rider Loonie has been buried at centre field. Who has the advantage now?!
Let's face it, Rider fans aren't the sharpest knife in the drawer. We're not the best at English..or math but we definitely know our football. Down with Calgary! Let's go RIDERS!
I feel the need to warn all men with a beard. I'm a bearded man (at the moment) and I have become extremely concerned with an incident in Kentucky. I've been placed with the special ability to grow a beard since I was the ripe age of 14. My peers always looked up to me! However, there seems to be some men who have an extreme distaste for facial hair. Jealously perhaps? I'm not quite sure.
"Man claims he was forced to eat his own beard
A Kentucky man says he feared for his life after he was in a fight with friends and they forced him to eat his own beard.
"They cut my beard and forced me to eat it," Harvey Westmoreland told a reporter from the NBC affiliate LEX18 while wearing a hat that says "Southern State" and has a Confederate flag on it.
He said his brother Joseph was working for friend Troy Holt in his barn.
Last May, Holt and another friend, James Hill, invited him over but he and Holt started fighting over a lawn mower.
The fight escalated, fists were thrown and Westmoreland was forced to chomp down on his facial hair.
Hill and Holt pleaded guilty to the fight. They will be sentenced Tuesday"
Source: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNew.../16167846.html
Have you ever seen the Bruce Lee movie "Chinese Connection"? There's a scene where he rips a painting off the wall and shoves it down some guy's throat. It was awesome. Cutting off a man's beard and shoving it down his throat? Not so awesome. Don't go to Kentucky, comrades!
The Canadian Finals Rodeo was in town (Edmonton) over the weekend and it's always a big draw. Every single year people argue about whether the rodeo is animal cruelty or not. Who cares? These animals have a choice between becoming a steak on your plate or having the opportunity to beat up the very species who turns them into food. What would you take?
How come the animals are allowed to hurt humans?
A lady ended up being carried out on a stretcher but it looks like she'll be fine.
Wheel of Fortune has always been one of those shows that I used to watch after school...immediately followed by Jeopardy. It was kind of funny because I always thought the people who appeared on Wheel of Fortune were "dumb" and the people who appeared on Jeopardy were "smart". This girl looks to buck the trend!
That's got to be the craziest "solve" ever! Caitlin Burke ended up winning herself a Caribbean getaway with the solve and $53,618 throughout her entire run with the show!
