CanSuffer

Always impressed with Belan's thoroughness when I hear him. Excited for Saskatchewan

An accidental leak doesn't have 100 % credence. Compare that with the commish stating it and canpl website writing it up which would be 100 % credence. Ok, less than 100 % for all the cynical people out there. For instance, the leaked statement is not going to clarify what is included and not included in the cap, or if it's currently not yet finalized and still under discussion. Yes, I get that this forum is full of rumour and innuendo. Just trying to point out how we stray at times. ... I could of picked a better example than this of being way off base.

"Long been rumoured" "There has been talk" "We know" (without reference) You are making my point for me. I will grant that the hardest data point is the Athletico Ottawa owner making a slip-up in Spanish and not repeating it in English. Still we don't know what his definition of cap is. I'm not saying either that some of the speculation is totally unreasonable. Just don't like the fast and free interchange of the non-credible with the credible.

We don't know definitively what the salary cap is -- or even how it's defined. There's lots of back-of-the-envelope calculations, unauthoritative quotes and comments, etc. But its all speculation. As far as speculation goes, personally, I put very little weight behind what a disgruntled Fury organization may have suggested ...

CFL is USD. CFL is CAD. What we need here is a solid reference with link to put the argument to bed.

Some guy I've never heard of and they say outright that it's a rumour and they seem to imply that they will all be identical and entirely black but it's not clear if it's really different individual styles of mostly black or mostly dark.... Sorry, I'm not wasting my time getting upset about this.

I feel like last year they didn't pay enough attention to the lightness or darkness of the kits. 2 kits from different teams may appear in a show room to be very different because they are, for example, bright purple and bright blue. However, on the field when the players are using periphery vision and are moving fast and the bright sun is washing everything out, the eye will pick out the relative lightness versus darkness before it has time to notice anything else. Imagine you are watching the game on a black and white tv : two different colours might appear equally grey. I feel like some of the combinations of away and home kits last year would have been hard for the players. All black away kits would probably help with this quite a bit -- even though it may or may not be pleasing design. Having said that, there are still plenty of dark colours you can choose from too ...

McNabb actually said that the some of the preliminary construction work was slated to begin starting Sep 10 at the earliest and that they had to avoid that time in the scheduling. Implying that construction schedule wasn't totally confirmed yet.

My go-to site as well

Happy to see a new sponsor in Swoop. Makes me wonder about Atletico Ottawa, will they have a new sponsor?

bespoke !

Have to say that boot is heavily weighted with the top scorer idea and I would stay away from it ....

Not sure what "this" is, but I don't know about any "sort of entry draft". All the teams seemed to have operated with a gentleman's agreement to respect each others geographical territories and not unnecessarily harm or raid each other. Certainly in the first year. You can see already that they are feeling free to restrict themselves less in year two. But all the teams want the league to succeed and it seems are willing to cooperate where ever they can as long as it doesn't mean giving up anything.

shoelace?

STH working in Mississauga, so getting to York Lions is trickier for me. However, I've got flexibility with work and can arrange my 4-day week differently if necessary. So, it should be fine. After that, am looking forward to the Friday night games because it will free up more time on busy weekends. Expecting this Friday-laden sched to help attendance, if only because no TFC conflicts. Personally, with CPL now here, TFC has completely dropped off the radar for me, but not so probably for most of the TFC/CPL crowd.