"Someone is going to write this anyways: This game kind of typified the CFL this season -- sporadic offence, not much excitement on special teams."Damien Cox, in today's Toronto Star:
"The lowest-scoring Grey Cup 'classic' since the dud in Toronto 15 years ago won't have anybody outside of British Columbia talking about this one past, well, today.
"It was a game won 25-14 by the B.C. Lions over the Montreal Alouettes that featured no lead changes, two conceded safeties by the winning team and a hero placekicker who didn't even have to boot a last-minute winner."(snip)
For those paying attention all season, the nature of yesterday's contest accurately represented the style of football that dominated the CFL in the 2006 season. Defences were dominant, kick returns non-existent and quarterbacks far from the dominant characters they'd once been.
Cox is right.
It would only be a start, but here's two obvious suggestions:
- Liberalize the blocking rules on punt and kickoff returns, and rescind the change to the no-yards rule that was made before this season. (Coaches complained, so the league gave the punting team more leeway, and then was surprised when return touchdowns dropped from 18 in 2005 to three in '06.)
- Adopt something similar to the NFL's no-bump rule on pass plays.
Oh, as for the Grey Cup breaking into two pieces, last night, one can only wonder what was running through outgoing commissioner Tom Wright's mind when that happened. Probably something along the lines of, "Screw it, it's David Braley's problem now."
That's all for now. Send your thoughts to neatesager@yahoo.ca.
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