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Okay so who builds a roof out of Teflon and why can't Minneapolis find a way to clear snow off of it even during seminal weather events?
I just came back from the Grey Cup in Edmonton.
Hand and Toe warmers de rigueur.
I watched a farce play out in Chicago yesterday.
When are the NFL and CFL going to realize that football was never meant to be played in the dead of winter.
It spoils the game.
It denudes an otherwise stunning ballet of its essential attributes.
Players hate it.
Coaches hate it.
Fans hate it.
And bull shit to dem dat say oh well, IT ADDS TO THE CACHET.
BULL SHIT!
We, the fans, mostly watch at home.
So we are snuggled from the freezing temps and the ridiculous sightlines.
But we get treated to the end result.
Unabashedly boring football.
If I was payin' 250 large to watch a catastrophe on snow I'd bloody well be asking for my money back.
We are playing the next two Grey Cups in BC and Toronna.
Domed sites.
The last two were played under gray skies on the frostbitten cusps of the prairies.
Bull shit!
We need this all to change.
Super Bowls in january are okay as long as they're played indoors.
But the playoffs are played on frozen tundras in Green Bay, Chicago, New York and New England.
It's piss poor football.
It's football redux.
Fumbles and interceptions and dropped passes.
It is not football guaranteed to provide the best matchup for the seminal Super Bowl event.
So I call crap.
Begin in the spring and end it on Thanksgiving.
College Football .. go figure it out.
They don't play off so who gives a shit.
Let em have at it in Hawaii on Christmas Day for all I give a shit.
Will I watch Oregon and Auburn?
Of course.
I'm addicted.
Thus the rant.
Next year I will be sitting in shirtsleeves in BC Place watching the Grey Cup play out in the pleasant confines of a temperate 22 degrees Celsius.
Three days before that I will be skiing my ass off in Whistler.
Lovely.
This year I had a bag of winter clothes, jackets, mitts, boots, gloves and mittens.
Air Canada charged me $35 for the extra bag.
I was frozen cloddish by the second half.
Let's get it together.
Play football in the sunshine.
Warm weather days.
Watch that flowing ballet break its pastiche across that lovely panorama of verdant green.
Pardon the Eruption.
But shit it's cold up north.
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