The CFL does a great show with the 100Th grey Cup

It all started with the festival of the Grey Cup and I went to the Metro Convention centre and they had setup TV with highlights of past Grey Cup games and they had actual game warn equipment and Grey Cup winning team photos and that was even before U got to the team rooms where they had bands from the different provinces of the teams in the CFL and I went into the roughrider room and it was extremely cool. Also liven in Toronto actually see friendly mobs of CFL fans in their teams gear was endless and u could see a roughrider talking with a bluebomber fan and they even had autograph signing amd it was very well put together. The actual production in the Rogers Centre was awesome as there was so much dead time with all the commercials breaks TSN took they filled them with spots of Gino Reda of showing and tallking about CFL hall of framers and it filled the time nicely and it game the breaks seem shorter than they actually were. The performances were decent with Burton Cummings singing O' Canada and it was quite messy but because it was him people just sang with him and if it was someone different they would No. 2 it. Talking about No. twoing something Justin Bieber was destroyed starting with his picture on the big screen and when he closed the halftime show he was booed when if music started and then booed off the stage when he was finished as he sang Boyfriend and Beauty and the beat and in the end we will find out tomorrow when the overnight ratings from the Grey Cup come in and see how much more of an attendance he brought at halftime because that is why he was there. Carly Rat did both this kiss and call me maybe and did not get booed and it was a warm response at the end of her performance but it was her fellow BC natives Marianas Trench just were horrible and I do not know why they were there. Gordon Lightfoot sang a sung and he had Grey Cup performances on the screen and he was great and was the most liked of all by the actual crowd in the stands except that when the lights went out a lot of fans got up and headed to the exit. There still were problems with the production and that was that when Brian Willams tried to speak we could not hear what he was actually saying and that is a shame as he is awesome. Also the shilling products all game got on some people's nerves but it is the big game and the CFL needs as much money as possible to support the Argos and Lions who are very unliked teams in Toronto and BC respectfully so it is a need that fans need to suck up as it happens in the Superbowl and that is even more commercial than the CFL and a lot less fan friendly. The actual game it is nice that Toronto won as it give the city something to cheer about and if they do not riot I will be impressed and hope that next season ticket sales go up as it sucks to see nobody at games. Also it was very interesting that the west were on Toronto's side as they were against Calgary and with Saskatchewan being the ones with most of the tickets it was a pro Argo crowd and it was rocking and it looks like people there choice to get ticket this year as they are going to be easier to get then next season when it is in Saskatchewan. Here's to a 100 more CFL Tom Mehegan

Calgary and their horse invade Toronto

So like most cities in Canada who have a team playing in the Grey Cup (CFL Holy grail) Calgary has shutdown for a five day week and a lot of them have made the trip to the Grey Cup city which is year is in Toronto for the 100Th cerebration of said cup. The folks of Calgary made some news locally in Toronto when they decided to bring a long a horse and to recreate the story of their first Grey Cup appearance in 1948 which took place in Toronto and just like that time they will also be playing the Argos from Toronto. So the story goes that in 1948 they arrived in Toronto on and got on the subway that took them to Royal York Station which happens to be under the Royal York Hotel and when the Subway car stopped at Royal York the doors opened and out came a horse that was rode into the Royal York Hotel. Then with this story being played up locally that it got back to Calgary and someone asked the Royal York if they could bring in their horse and they said no so this morning a ton of cameras and news people were outside the Royal York because it looked like even though they had said no they were still going to try to do it and his rider Calgary Grey Cup committee Chairman Fletcher Armstrong was refused but later in the day with PR mess on their hands the Royal York rolled out the red carpet for him outside the hotel and got to sign the guest book. Marty also a busy day going to a shopping mall and a local pub and all this shows how awesome the rest of Canada with the exceptions of BC and Toronto of the CFL and the cup who would rather have a NFL team than a CFL team. It is awesome to have Calgary in town and they are bring the party which would not bw happening if the BC Lions were in town or Toronto had to provide the excitement for the event and will be taken over Nathan Phillip Square for the Calgary Tradition of the pancake breakfast on Saturday Morning. Will be taken over the Metro Convention which has parties for every team in the CFL but just like the Saskatchewan Roughriders in '07 took over the Convention center and made a party of it and it sparkled so brightly that they decided right then and there that Toronto was the place to be for the huge 100TH Grey Cup. So Calgary will be running down town Toronto from Thursday to Monday and will be well represented at the Grey Cup on Sunday as the tickets that were sold were not sold to people in Toronto even though they got first crack at them they did not buy them as I'm guessing that maybe 15 thousand tickets were bought starting the day after last season's Grey Cup for 100 hours to celebrate the 100TH Grey Cup. Calgary will be spending the dough for tickers and who does not get tickets will get be able to see the game at select movie theaters in Toronto which will be awesome but not as awesome as me who is going to the game because I bought a ticket a year ago. Lets party and have a great four days of CFL fun Tom Mehegan

survivor series '12 has a lot of filler

Punk is a year old with his title as he got three members of NXT to come out of the crowd and put out Reyback as they put him through the Spanish announce table so that Punk could pin Cena and that was the kind of night it was with nothing happening for 50 bucks. As... Big Show and Shamus was a waste of a title match or a match at all as it was all about the actions after the match where they setup a chair match as Shamus destroyed Big Show after Big Show was disqualified for putting the Ref in front of him to block the bro' kick. Then Show gave Shamus a knock out punch and one of the refs looking after the knocked out ref counted the three count on Shamus but another ref called for the DQ and Show kept the title. After the match Shamus went after Show with a chair on the ramp and Show begged for mercy and Shamus beat up Show with the chair to the point where Big Show was unable to walk backstage and it sets up a chair match at the TLC PPV next month. Then.... In the big Survivor Series match David Otunga replaced Cody Rhoades who suffered a concussion last Wednesday on Main Event and Damien Sandow wanted nothing to do with the match and ended up being choke slam by Kane and then Kane and Bryant fought and Kane was immediately eliminated by Dolph Ziggler and the match came down to Randy Orton against both Ziggler and Del Rio and Randy pinned Del Rio and was set to RKO Ziggler after a reverse DDT and Ziggler played Unconscious and whwn Orton decided to go for the punt to the head and Ziggler finished Orton off to be the victor. The show started with survivor series match of Brodus Clay with the high flies (mysterio and Sin Cara) and the team of Tyson Kidd and Justin Gabriel vs Prime Time Players, Primo and Epico, and Tensai. It had Brodus Vs Tensai to setup a feud with each other that Brodus will win with Tensai getting the pin tonight and the finish was that Brodus was the only good guy eliminated and Rey finished Young who was by himself. Then Raw broke out... The filler really was that we found out that Aksana was Kaitlyn attacker as she tried to attack again and Kaitlyn was ready for her backstage and pulled of the wig. In the match Kaitlyn really looked to have things in control until she went onto the apron outside of the ropes to get Eva but Eva pulled the ring apron sign and Kaitlyn fell to the floor and Eva got her into the ring for the 1,2,3. So that feud is over and Kaitlyn and Aksana will feud instead. Also AJ had a RAW moment and did some photo shopped photos of Vicki and Vicki came out and AJ was saying maybe Vicki was hiding something and Vicki wanted to hit AJ but AJ said that she would lose her position if she did so. In the Tamina jumped AJ from behind and then splashed her and left so Vicki could laugh at AJ and is was not needed.

GSP barely holds onto his welterweight championship

GSP took 18-month off to rehab an injury and took down Carlos Condit 7 times in 7 attempts and dominated the first two rounds of the fight as he opened up a massive cut that spilled blood and he took both rounds handily. In the third round Condit smoked GSP with a knock left leg to his head and GSP was on dream street and even Condit felt that he had a chance to finish him off but GSP defensive saved him and took control of Condit by the end of the round. The match went the distance and in the championship rounds they had Anderson Silva in a small side screen and GSP took Condit down a number of times and controlled Condit and the judges gave the match unanimously 50-45 given all rounds to GSP to keep the welterweight title in the match of the night. After the match GSP was unwilling to say what he was going to do next as he said he had to talk to coaches, managers, entourage about what to do next. In the lead up to the main event teammates Johny Hendricks and Martin Kampmann faced off in a welterweight match and Johny Hendricks left hand was built up huge and it delivered only 46 seconds into the match as he lead with his right and immediately finished with the left and Kampmann was out on impact for knock out of the night. After the match Johny Hendricks made no bonez about it that he wanted a title shot and with his performance will be one of the two options and GSP can not go wrong with either and it will both be huge for the UFC with Silva being bigger at Cowboy stadium. The unjust decision of the night was that Francis Carmont got a split decision over Tom Lawlor even though Lawlor had a submission on at both the first two rounds and the crowd booed the decision out of the building. The two other Canadians on the PPV did not fair very well as Mark Bocek tried as he might was unable to get Rafael dos Anjos to the ground and after the first 7 minutes of the 15 minute match Bocek was finished and dos Anjos dominated the last 8 minutes of the match and won all three rounds of the fight. While Mark Hominick tried as he might was unable to do anything against Pablo Garza and was a bloody mess and lost an unanimous decision and may get his walking papers from the UFC after 4 straight losses. The Crowd were extremely hot even though some stupid heads were booing at different times Tom Mehegan

Phil Jackson to become the next head coack of Lakers

Phil Jackson has already interviewed for the job and showed Jim Buss the 5 NBA championship rings he has earned with the Lakers over the last 13 years of being the head coack of the Lakers and being retired from basketball. He has started to cancelling speaking engagements already and he knew about the Mike Brown firing even before Mike Brown did as he is dating Jeanie Buss who is the daughter of the owner of the Lakers Jerry Buss. Really all that has to be figured out is how much salary the Lakers will be willing to give Jackson and how much he is looking for and if they figure out a number that both sides can agree to it will be a done deal. The reason why Jackson will be the guy is because he is very good coach getting his teams to the end goal of winning the NBA championship as between the Lakers with Kobe and the Bulls with Micheal he collected 11 championship rings and between 1995 and 2002 he six championships (3 Bulls and 3 Lakers) in 7 seasons with the only time that he did not win the title was the year he took off between the Bulls and Lakers jobs in 1998-99. IT will be his third stint as Lakers head coach and it will be a one or two year deal most likely 25 mill if not more and he coach the big three in LA of Bryant, Dwight Howard, and Steve Nash with Bryant and Nash at the twilight of their careers and who knows if Howard will be around after this season as he will be a free agent and Jackson will be able to get everybody on the same page and will put the Lakers in position to win another title. It will be a go thing for the city and the team and everybody involved Tom Mehegan

Sean Payton has a few juicy options going into next season

It is looking like NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has more problems with the Saints and this time it is something about the contract extension that Sean Payton signed over a year ago and would keep Payton in New Orleans til the end of 2016. So if the Saints and Payton do not fix the contract that they sent the league for approval then Payton will come out of his year long suspension by the league as a free agent. With is in mind there are three huge options for Payton and will become a very rich head coach and if he plays his cards right he might get more than that and this is what might happen: Option No. 1 - is staying in New Orleans and continuing to coach Drew Brees and the Saint talented offense and get them back on the right track on defense and bringing a second Lombardi Trophy to the city. Option No. 2 - Would be heading to Dallas and coaching the Dallas Cowboys who are in the toilet this season with a 3-5 record and a quarterback in Tony Romo who can throw 4 INTs in a game and the Cowboys are still in the game. Then there is Jerry Jones who has not been in a Super Bowl in 17 seasons as they last won it in 1995 season and he might get Desperate and go all out in the off-season and give Payton huge money and huge responsibility of being both the Head Coach along with control of all talent related decisions as the General Manager of the Cowboys. It would be a very easy move for Jerry to do as he right now is actually the General Manager of his own team. Option No. 3 - If the Cowboys are mess than the Jets are living in a pigsty as their head coach Rex Ryan has lost the team completely even though they are also 3 and 5 right now but it is the quarterbacking Controversy between Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow along little to no running game with Shonn Greene with 509 yards on the ground through the first half of the season. Jets owner is as crazy as Jones in Dallas and like the spotlight as much and Rex Ryan days in the big apple look to be numbered and owner Woody Johnson might try and out spend both the Cowboys and Saints for Payton. If it does not get fixed by the end of the season and it goes into the off-season I would not be surprised if he goes to Dallas to coach and be the GM of the Cowboys Tom Mehegan

NHL cancels Winter Classic and now the big boys hurt

Today the NHL has decided instead of starting to pay the huge down payment of booking the Big House in Michigan for January 1st,2013 they have axed the whole thing and with no talks schedule it will be hard to imagine that it will be re-booked for this season. With this happening the NHL is biting the head that feeds them because a ton of money would be made by the Detroit Red Wings who have been one of the most competitive teams in the NHL in the last quarter century and they need the money. Things in Michigan are not very good as it is run by Car manufacturers especially Ford so it has been hard for the Red Wings to get top dollar for their tickets but got over 20,000 fans a game but have a middle of the road average ticket price of 53.28 and is 4 dollars less than the NHL average 57.10. The Red Wings who a max team (64 million dollars a season) and are struggling to balance the books and the money will help them financially and it is the biggest hit to the big boys of the NHL and will be the biggest pill to shallow for them to help the sinking ships that are a lot of southern teams and the Phoenix Coyotes and the New York Islanders. This thing also diffidently hurts the community around the Big House because a lot of people lost the opportunity to make a salary with two Alumni hockey games, an AHL hockey game, and the big game in front of over 100,000 fans in the stands. The hotel business around the stadium were booked solid and they were going to make good money over the span of a couple weeks and now those rooms will likely be empty and the hotels will need to give back the down payments on the rooms that were booked solid. The Winter Classic will be back on January 1st,2014 and it will be still at the Big House Tom Mehegan