notahomer wrote:Lots of people (including me) redeemed for the Argos game. My regular neighboors were sitting elsewhere.
If I had a friend who'd offered me a ticket and I wasn't a season ticket holder, I'd have gone for either the Ottawa game or the Calgary game. Ottawa just because they are BACK and its great to have helmets with a BIG WHITE R on them again. Calgary because these games are often good. The kind of game I go home, even after a loss, and think, man that was an enjoyable evening.
I think it'll be nice to have a few extra in the crowds for the rest of the years games.....
Fine, if you want to see Ottawa just because they are 'BACK' (albeit with a 1-11 record to date) but it's not so great to have helmets with a now 'MEDIUM WHITE R' on them, especially when they're applied to a white helmet for road games instead of the traditional Rough Riders black helmet, LARGE white R and the red stripe. When they play at Calgary's McMahon stadium, it appears that the host team is the REDBLACKS and their opponent is the Ottawa WHITEblacks. Ugly, ugly, ugly! They come up with the name REDblacks and there's more white visible than both RED & BLACK combined... maybe that's part of the reason for their crappy road record.