Riders Can’t Even Bend the Rules Right
Stupidity seems to be the right way to sum up the latest installment of too many men for the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
First off, every team screws around with the roster and stretches the rules to bring in players. It has happened since the 1970’s when the Edmonton Eskimos made an art of it. Now the salary management system, or salary cap, was intended to cut down the opportunities to have a complete team working in various bars as bouncers and bartenders and avoid having them on the official payroll.
What makes the Riders stupid is they were obvious about it. I take in about one or two practices a week depending on my work schedule and at the start of the season I was a bit taken aback by the number of players. I didn’t think anything of it because the Riders were making so many changes that it was pretty well useless to try to count the players, never mind try to figure out who they were from their numbers.
News the Riders had access to a house to house players not on the roster is new and a bit bold, but then again, Chris Jones has a reputation for stretching the rules and since he came from Edmonton, the original home of the CFL taxi squad, maybe he was bringing their ideas down here.