"Let's turn January into Christmas." ~ Cory Chamblin
As I recently said, every time I come up with a blog topic the news changes and the subject is moot. Ugh! I'm not going to bother with what's happened in December because apparently January is the new December.
Monday the Riders announced the hiring of George Cortez. All of Riderville is a buzz. I've heard people saying he is the greatest offensive mind out there. But hold the train! I thought we didn't like Cortez. I mean, he had tons of weapons in the Ti-Cat arsenal and that didn't seem to get the offence anywhere. I even said to my husband, "I thought we didn't like Cortez." His reply? "Of course not, he was on the other team."
Okay.
After a week of a nagging dull headache and a few sleepless nights I was finally able to sleep well and wake up feeling normal. Well, as normal as I ever was. Anyhow, it figures that this of course would be when the biggest CFL news of the week would break. Geroy Simon has been traded to the Riders for Justin Harper and a 3rd round draft pick. Huh. Actually, I think my words were Holy Crap! At least that's what I heard someone say to the TV when it was talked about on the noon CTV news. And by the way, Trish Cheveldayoff.....football is a 12 months subject.
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| Courtesy Darian Durant's Twitter page. |
I don't know if you've read any of my previous blogs. If you have, you might recall that Hubby and I ventured to Watrous last summer for a special Co-Op Customer Appreciation BBQ. If you haven't then you should go read it. LINK. So this was the second time we've gone for such an event. In 2011, we saw Cary Koch, Barin Simpson and James Patrick.
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| Courtesy Watrous Co-Op Facebook Page |
Jinx.
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| My signed print of Efrem Hill. |
When we went in 2012 we visited with Efrem Hill, Justin Harper and James Patrick. I don't know if you can see where I'm going with this, but shortly after that event Efrem Hill was released. With the Cortez news on Monday it was announced James Patrick was released. Then today.....we traded Justin Harper to BC in exchange for Geroy Simon #81.
Jinx.
Before this news, I was chatting with a Tuesday student who is also a Rider fan. It totally made sense to her. She pleaded with me..... "Don't ever meet Weston Dressler!"
Doh! Too late.
I told her I've met Chris Getzlaf, Kory Sheets and Darian Durant too.
She screamed. "Ah!"
I'm sorry.
If it helps. I did not get to chat with Rob Bagg and he got injured and I never did have the pleasure of talking to Andy Fantuz no matter how much I tried. So I cannot be blamed for that.
Still. I'm a little worried because I had plans to attend training camp in Saskatoon this spring.
Ack!
