Hey all, I went off on a bit of a rant in the marketing thread about the Lions taking people in the suburbs for granted a few weeks back, writing about gameday logistics from the 'burbs. It's hardly surprising that nobody wants to go to UBC for a game. I love the UBC rare books library and do a bit ...

Hey all, This will be long. Apologies up front. I really don't think the problem with attendance is fans have big-screen high-def televisions and prefer to watch from home; I view this as a symptom rather than the cause. The BC Lions are in fact the Vancouver Lions and everything they do caters to a...

SJ-Roc --I couldn't agree more. It's the Tyee, so one has to expect an extreme left-wing slant (Look at these fat-cat thousandaire football players, making almost as much as teachers! We should be using that money for community based projects that make a difference, like the anarcho-lesbian theatre ...

Hey all, The BC Lions pay no rent on the first $9 million of net ticket sales to play at BC Place Stadium, according to their contract with BC Pavilion Corporation that was released under freedom of information on April 21. The contract was inked in fall 2011, after the stadium reopened from a $514-...

Hey all, This event is the sort of thing that drives me up the wall, and is a purrfect example of how tone-deaf the Lions are when it comes to marketing their brand. Let's take a quick look at what they did here: They just offered a really nice perk, ie, an intimate Q&A with our star players and...

Hey all, One of my favourite articles about soccer; a bit of a long read, but I think it's a fascinating one. Cheers, James Why The USA Hates Soccer: A Nation Flummoxed National Post June 8, 2002 There is an episode of The Simpsons that begins with Homer taking the family to a soccer match between M...

What's he supposed to do though? For starters I think the lower bowl only is a good idea given the sad state of the sports interest in this town (way too many bandwagoners). I'm also still shocked at how many so-called life-long die-hard fans are willing to just stop supporting the team just becaus...

Hey all, I don't think it's accurate to say the fanbase expects Dennis Skulsky to attain the same sort of stature, or live up to the successes of Bobby Ackles. We're all fans here, right? We're into the inside baseball stuff: there's discussions of marketing and draft picks and how to coach offensiv...

Press release: Vancouver. Since seizing power in a bloodless coup, dictator for life James (praised be his name) has decreed certain changes will take place regarding the BC Lions, the official team of the People's Democratic Republic of British Columbia. The first thing I'd do is fire Dennis Skulsk...

Hey all, I was doing some research in the special collections at the VPL, and while talking with an archivist we got chatting about digitization projects. The VPL has scanned some of their photo collection and put it on Flickr --the link below is an album called 'Football in Vancouver.' Some good sh...

Hey all, I was going to be a smart arse, and say that as a loyal Canadian, I don't cross-border shop; I order from Amazon.com and they bring it to my door. But I thought it better to drop it --no sense in stoking an argument. It was announced this afternoon that Chapters is closing their downtown lo...

Hey all, Thought I'd chime in with a couple of points about Tedford that may just be major considerations in his signing here, that I haven't seen mentioned much in this 26 page thread (though it's possible I missed them). Tedford is married to a woman from Alberta, and has been for years. At the ve...

Mike Bennevides and the B.C. Lions have a revolutionary plan in place for the 2014 CFL playoffs, one that promises to change the very way we think about the game. Vancouver --In a season where the BC Lions offence has been positively anemic, failing to score a touchdown in five games this season, t...

Hey all, I don't think there is any reason to cancel the football game this weekend; on the contrary, giving the people of Ottawa a chance to get together as a large group, cheer the national anthem, applaud police, the military, the PM, etc, is a something that is beneficial. I hope the Redblacks m...

Hey all, Oops. Posted that a little too soon. I was thinking about the article above in regard to the Baltimore Stallions of 1994, the Lions of 2005, and the 1989 Eskimos: three teams who were positively loaded with talent, but who failed when it counted to teams who played better as teams. I also w...