REGINA – Notes and quotes and fun facts from the front:
Maybe Nik Lewis has a point.
“I'm ready to go disappoint a province. Not a stadium, but a province,” the mouth which managed to refrain from trash talk last week against Edmonton, could no longer contain himself the other day in Calgary.
“They had a Grey Cup, what, two years ago? They'll be all right. They'll be all right for another 30 years.”
Nik should know that as part of the celebrations around the first Western final in 33 years, Molson Pilsner has produced green beer cans (the product inside is normal color) featuring the Saskatchewan logo commemorating the three Grey Cups in their, well, 99-year history and the scores of each game. The Roughriders won the Cup in 1966, 1979 and 2007.
There's no danger of a Spygate story out of here.
No team in the CFL has so many fans watching practice and you'd think a Calgary spy wearing a green sweater could infiltrate with no problem.
He started by talking about how the players can feel the enthusiasm of the population even at practice.
“It's big. Every day the players are talking about all the people who are coming to watch. The other day they were looking in the stands and they were saying 'There are three or four guys up there who haven't been here for a while.'“
One scribe inquired if any of those people might be from Calgary.
“The men who are here every day assured me the new guys where not from Calgary. If they had been they would have taken care of it.”
Chris Getzlaf has four touchdowns in three games against Calgary so far this season.
Stampeder stars Jermaine Copeland and Lewis have none. In their last five trips here, neither of Calgary's top two receivers has scored a TD in Mosaik Stadium.
In rodeo it's now known as the tie-down event.
“Has anyone got a rope that we can use to put around this guy?” he asks of Henry Burris.
“When he's scrambling around, he is at his most dangerous. His receivers can get open when he is scrambling and he can make a big play. You just can’t relax until the play is over.”
