Dinwiddie's domain, Keep the Bills out, Broken Bones

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CFL week 5 recap

CFL on Demand it’s the patriotic choice

Thanks to TSN and a host of advertisers all this seasons CFL football games, both regular season and playoffs will be available on demand at http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/feature/?fid=508

With the NFL set to make their initial foray into regular season football north of the boarder it has never been as important or more fashionable to support the CFL and CFL on demand is the perfect tipping point for the 110-yard rally cry. Any sport fans with a packed event’s calender, a forty-hour work week and any kind of social life worth maintaining will appreciate that they can access CFL on demand from their cubicle, via train, java joint or just about anywhere else that a WiFi connection is available. For me this means, more Canadian football with little excuse for not taking part in something so rich and unquestionably Canadian.

Quality Canadian Football on display

Thursday night in Winnipeg quality Canadian football was on display below the bright lights at Canad Inns Stadium where the (0-4) Winnipeg Blue Bombers played host to the visiting Edmonton Eskimos (3-1). The pre-game story was of two teams headed in opposite directions at breakneck speeds. Winnipeg was grasping for straws with head coach Dave Berry saying that "changes would come" because the Bombers "can’t go on like this"

and changes came in the name of 6'1 195 lbs Boise State grad Ryan Dinwiddie. Dinwiddie would be called upon to rescue the tailspinning Bomber despite having only one prior CFL start under his belt. A start that resulted in Dinwiddie going 15-33 with a 225-yards and one touchdown in the CFL’s pinnacle game, the 2007 Grey Cup where Dinwiddie out duelled 2007 CFL outstanding player Kerry Joseph on his way to a very impressive championship loss in a game that was his professional maiden voyage. The Calgary Stampeders on the other hand where sitting comfortably with a three win, one lose record that was sure to improve against the hapless Bombers squad.

Thursday night the prospects of Dinwiddie starting his CFL career 0-2 were abundantly high but the twenty-six year old, Sacramento, California native had other ideas. 24-39, 450 yards, 1 Touchdown and 0 interceptions capped off with a 69 yard drive and a 34 yard TD pass to Romby Bryant in the dying seconds to lead the Blue Bombers to the teams first win of the season.

Bones keep breakin, Riders keep winnin

The winnin

Playing host to an Argonaut team that has slowly rolled into form over the past two weeks the triage known as the Roughrider’s were without a couple key guys, WR D.J. Flick (Broken Leg), WR Weston Dressler (Broken Knee), DB Leron Mitchell (Broken Leg) and dressed but not starting QB Marcus Crandell were amongst the 14 players listed as injured on Saskatchewan website. The Riders, however surged on and acquired their fifth win in five tries defeating the Argo 28-22 and sealing themselves off as the favourite, at least in my book too win this year’s Grey Cup.

The bone breakin

The Riders lost two more key players to broken bones with QB Darian Durant (Broken Ribs) and Superstar Canadian WR Andy Fantuz (Broken Leg) going down during this week’s epic tilt against Toronto but with more than two months until the start of the 08 CFL playoffs, a two game lead a top the CFL’s western conference and a team dynamic overwhelmed with resiliency, the Riders are clearly poised to repeat as CFL champions.

Z. Black