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Yes, I do that occasionally. This one will even have some content!

I love me my football. I love me my CFL, too. Don't ask why. It's just the way I am.

I'm just going to spend a second bitching about the Bombers, and why they don't sign a kicker that, I dunno, doesn't miss three extra points, causing his team to lose to highly rated LSU by a point in Louisiana. Yes, I know he's gotten better since then. Still, I'll never be able to shake the fact that he once was so shaken, he ended up doing that.

Tonight, he missed a 48 yarder in one of the toughest stadiums in the CFL, and the Bombers lost by two. Not an easy kick to make, by any means. And yet, I had no faith whatsoever that he'd make it. None. He's also taking up an import slot, which in the CFL, means that he's non-Canadian. Imports are a little over half the roster. Filling the spot with a Canadian gives the Bombers more flexibility on signing another American, for any position anywhere.

Eh, who am I kidding? They'll stick it out with him until it becomes well too late to matter.

Milt Says Goodbye

Speaking of legends retiring....

Bit of background, ladies and gents, yes, I'm a Wisconsinite, and yes, I've been one all my life and intend to be one until the day I die, but I'm also a big CFL fan. Even wrote a bit on scout.com when CFL writer Jack Bedell ran the place. Don't ask me why I like the league. Always have, always will, somehow. 

Anyway, in a retirement that's as big to the CFL, maybe bigger, than the retirement of Brett Favre, Milt Stegall made it official that he was hanging them up. I wish every pro athlete could see how he conducts himself on and off the field and take notes. He will be missed. I have not the words to convey how wonderful he was to watch, even in the limited amount of times I got to see him, be it on tape or in person.