Guys: are you going to be sad after the Grey Cup? How do you handle seven months without pro football?
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I agree. It feels like there is a void that NFL, Arena Football, and NFL can't fill. The CFL is a  Canadian institution, and I miss it every year during the off-season. Especially cause I know that so much will change until the next season starts, both in my own personal life and in the CFL itself. My team the Riders will certainly be making some drastic changes, and my other team the Stamps will tinker as well. \n\nPlus, the CFL off-season is so long... 7 months. That's more than half a year.
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i'm not heartbroken, but i am disappointed right now. i was gonna attend a piss out with my mate who promised to give me a lift. i was waiting for him since half six, and it was already quarter to eight pm. and some of my mates already in the party were trying to ring me to see if i was still going, but i was already pissed off i didn't feel like going there.\n\nnow, i'm watching my favourite flicks, while answering questions here. makes me feel a lot better. i should be fine tomorrow.\n\ni hope you'll be fine by tomorrow as well. isnt it a comforting thought that youre not alone? we're both feeling disappointed right now, so ye.
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You can't top this. I missed the Bear's game taking down all the halloween decorations my daughter put up.\n\nNever mind, they lost to Miami of all teams. I guess I didn't sacrifice anything. Forget I answered. ha.
249757
I've been out of Canada for 14 months and didn't vote in the last election, but I hope not!  I will be watching this space to see what other (more informed) Canucks write!  Thanks for the question.
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Terrific series!  Terrific postseason!  Full of exciting moments.  Hats off to the Hurricanes, they certainly derserved it.  Very proud of the Oilers.  I really wanted them to win.  But they made for a tremendous Game 7.  Was nice to see Rod Brind'Amour hoist the Cup. \n\nBut now I'm sad that my life will be NHL-free for the next  4 months . . .
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I think you have to go back and remind your team of how you got there, what you did during the regular season and playoffs to even be in a position to earn the Cup (yes...earn it).  \n\nI also think you have to impress upon the team that none of the previous six games mean a thing at this point, it's one game, winner take all.  You have to play one period at a time, one shift at a time.\n\nIt's going to be a tough road to climb with the momentum having switched to the Oilers, but at least they're playing in Carolina.\n\nI've already made it abundantly clear that I am watching the entirity of this game tonight.  Or as my daughter says, "Are they playing for the kissing cup?"
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it was the worst..im a jets fan n please tell me how u pass up matt linert to get an offensive tackle who u kno wont see the field for the first like 5 games...n with chad getting hurt every year they neeeded someone like Matt to be a backup for the first year n a half..
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without feeling suffocated...lol, good luck. you are better off inviting friends over to watch it at your home...the dorms here at C.L.S.G. are already planning on parties during the World Cup. GO ROONEY!!  KICK SOME ARSE BOYS!!
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What a lovely (and very timely) question, Moon! Ta very much! :)\n\nI have loved hockey since the age of four when I was first exposed to it, watching my beloved Buffalo Sabres (currently hammering the hated Philadelphia Flyers in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs -- WOOHOO!). I was never able to skate worth a damn so I'm afraid my "career" began and ended with youthful street hockey games. But man, what great memories...\n\nHockey has always been important to me in my life, from those cold winter nights playing street hockey with my two older brothers and a whole host of neighbourhood pals under the street lights or on a bright Saturday afternoon. I'm smiling just remembering some of my youthful heroics, like the night we were short of players and I was designated as our team's defenseman/goalie (minus any goaltending equipment, of course) and I stopped the biggest kid on the opposing team (he was twice my size and the same age as my eldest brother) on not one but two clean breakaways. Both times I just focused like a laser on the orange street hockey ball (pucks only work on ice) and stole it away from him before he could get off a shot. The cheers of my brothers and friends were awesome but I especially liked when the big fella hoisted me up on his shoulders after the game and called me the first star (hockey awards three stars after a game and 1st star is best). \n\nI also vividly recall EVERY Sabres game I went to see in person, whether in the grand old Aud (Memorial Auditorium) or the spanking new HSBC Arena. My Uncle Norm had season tickets and always took me to a game for my birthday. I'll never forget the night my all-time favourite player -- and THE original Buffalo Sabre -- Gilbert Perreault scored a hat trick (that's 3 goals, just like in soccer) and had a couple of assists as well. I swear he did it just for me! (I was only 10 years old, of course, so what did I know? lol) My most recent game was only a month ago, here in Washington, when a bunch of us went to see our visiting Sabres thump the local Caps. Joined by a whole host of transplanted Buffalonians and Sabres boosters who travel with the team, we made more noise than the locals in THEIR OWN building. Great fun! My last game attended in Buffalo was a couple of years ago when my younger brother and I made a trip home to catch both a Sabres game (we won!) and Bills game (we lost.) while otherwise catching up with extended family and old friends. Nice! :)\n\nI love football (NFL mainly, but world football too, especially in World Cup years like this one), Formula 1 auto racing, even golf and tennis -- and the occasional baseball game, just to annoy Patz -- but hockey has always been MY sport, my first love and the source of many happy memories of my bygone youth...\n\nThank you again for asking such a lovely and, for me, personally significant question. Cheers, Moon! :)
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Go man Go!!! Get somebody else to pay for the beers.  Arena Football is a cross between back yard football, and hockey.  THe fans go wild and if the ball goes into the stands, you get to keep it... THAT'S a LEAGUE RULE...\n\n\nMost of the Arena League quarterbacks will end up in NFL training camps this year. Kurt Warner got his start with the IOWA BARNSTORMERS. Former Stanford quarterback Chris Lewis is with SAN JOSE and was just released by the 49ers. You'll see a lot of the WRs and DBs in NFL and CFL camps also.\n\nThe Arena League has a player developement contract with the NFL. Most of the coaches and executives of the league have NFL ties. GO MAN GO!!! \n\nI have been to AFL games in Chicago and Los Angeles and I was at ARENA BOWL 3...  Have a beer and catch a ball.
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I don't have a team... Funnily enough I have a life and football ain't part of it...\n\n:D
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I will add on to what I had put in another answer:\nYea, and as an Eagle fan, I don't know what to think. Is this the end of the McNabb era? I mean, come on, be realistic. Yesterday, Reid said in his post game news conference- 8-12 months recovery time. That means that next year, he would just be getting off the bench now, or maybe not even playing next year. Now, here comes the hard part. Where do you upgrade next year. If you lose out, and go 5-11, which would suck, do you draft a QB in the 1st round, just in case Donny Mac isn't fully recovered? An ACL tear is probably the worst injury in sports. In 3-4 months, you feel recovered, but you cannot cut or make those quick moves with your legs, and maybe he will never be able to again. Wow, just think of Donovan McNabb as a pocket-passer, like Trent Green or Drew Bledsoe. I know, I know, Bledsoe isn't playing anymore. But who is our Tony Romo? Is it Garcia, who threw 22 incomplete passes yesterday? Is it Feeley, who went 4-1in 2002? What about going after a free-agent QB? A trade in the off-season? Who knows, but the real question is, have we seen the last of Donovan Jamal McNabb on the field in a Philadelphia Eagles jersey. These are questions Andy Reid has to answer RIGHT NOW, from his home in Villanova. Maybe Jay Wright can help him out a little.\n\nWith the playoff situation, can Jeff Garcia get it done? A.J. has been down that road before, so it will be interesting to see who Andy turns to.
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Let me put this in a way that all Steeler fans can comprehend:\nNah!  Duh Stillers is going down da toilet bowl dis year.  Yunz guys are goin to be hung out wid da warshing. (all expletives deleted)\n\nSincerely,\nThe Cleveland Browns ;-)
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Wolverines. Go Blue. When it comes to NFL I'm the same way, stand behind my Browns. Got to stay with your team up or down.
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O Sweet Lord I agree 100%.  We already had the draft so now is the dead season until training camp starts.  Then, on a beautiful Thursday night in early September (Sept 7), there will be a glorious rising of pads pounding together, of the wind whsitling around a tightly spiraled pigskin, of jukes, spin-moves, stiff-arms, and wrapped up runners.\nFantasy football fans checking continuously on their scores.  Friends and family hanging out on a pleasent Sunday afternoon watching copius amounts of football (and some beer and brats).\n\nThanks alot, now all I'm gonna think about is football (REAL FOOTBALL) for the next 83 days, 7 hours, and 49 minutes.\n\np.s. Paulie, that is an absurd analogy.  In the NFL, almost every year, there is a team that is 9-7 or 8-8 that makes the playoffs.  A 9-7 team's season translated to baseball would roughly mean they go 91-71 (162 game schedule).  Do some research before you speak next time.
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At the beginning of the year I couldn't believe they played so poorly. Last 3 weeks doing great. Don't get too excited, may be a couple years before they get back to their glory days. On side note they are battling with the city of San Francisco on a new stadium. Also, Bill Walsh is battling Leukmia, my prayers to the coach.
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hang on ... *digs* ... crap.. I can't seem to pull the answer outta my ass... ask me after the game