It’s my Parting Shot for my Monday Musings…..
Okay, just wait a minute here! The Regina Thunder beat the Saskatoon Hilltops in the P-F-C final, then go on and win two national junior football playoff games and capture the Canadian Bowl?! This past Saturday, the Regina Rams waltz into Griffiths Stadium and win a Hardy Cup semi-final contest?! What gives?! While Saskatoon widely-known and well-regarded as the “Paris of the Prairies”, Regina is that wanna-be-like Winnipeg city! Exact same legislative building – sans the Golden Boy – maddening one-way streets in the downtown area and the inability to go for a stroll on your own after dark in the downtown for fear of being mugged, or worse! Oh wait, that happens in Saskatoon as well! But, you get what I’m saying – the Hilltops and the Huskies aren’t supposed to lose to the Thunder and the Rams! Next thing you now, the Pats will beat the Blades tomorrow at SaskTel Centre and Miller knocks off Holy Cross this Saturday at Leibel Field for the provincial 6-A high school football title?! There are more than enough Reginans who are annoying when it comes to how wonderful their city is and how much better it is than Saskatoon. Delusion and fantasy is one thing, giving them reason – through sport – to perpetuate that delusion and fantasia is quite another thing!!
That’s two years in a row that Nathan Rourke has come up short in leading the B-C Lions to a Grey Cup game – can you say “over-rated?!”
It has to be time for the core veterans of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to pack it in and retire following Saturday’s gallant try at winning the C-F-L East final on the road in Montreal, right?! Guys like Zach Collaros, Brady Oliveira, Willie Jefferson, etcetera, have given their all to the Big Blue since 2019! Bomber fans will find it hard to let go, but are ready to say, thanks for the memories!!
Speaking of Winnipeg, and with a Saskatoon tie-in, congratulations to Brayden Yager for tallying his first N-H-L goal last night on behalf of the Jets in a 4-3 victory over Tampa Bay. This is, already, the second time that Brayden has been called up to The Show and, by all rights, he should stay and earn the big dollars, travel on charter flights only and stay in five-star hotels with all-night room service! Ah, I fondly remember those days – minus the big dollars and charter flights! What I am certain of is that one of Brayden Yager’s biggest fans, grandpa Trevor, is looking down from above and cheering him on!!
That’s my Parting Shot. I’m Les Lazaruk…and it turned out nice again!
