The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
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Hands up all those who thought at the start of the season this year’s Labor Day Weekend game between the Godless Stony Mountain Blue Bombers and Saskatchewan Roughriders would be for first place in the West.
Personally I am amazed the Riders have continued to hold onto first place by a single point, but combined with the collapse of the BC Lions and the zombie like rise of the Bombers, the Calgary Stampeders one week yes, one week no way, and Edmonton Elks finding a running game but maybe too far behind to make things work now, it is a year unlike any seen in these parts in quite some time.
Unlike the last two years under former Rider coach Craig Dickenson, there is a different feeling in the air when you go to a Rider practice. The Riders are focused on the job at hand, which is somehow overcoming the various injuries plaguing them so far this season with better execution and more passion.