Getting Ready For Some Football Canadian Style

[Mr Walleye]

For me at least, English will become optional by half time and a good time should be had by all except anyone from Regina who will have their little green noses rubbed in French Canadian do do !

Hey hey hey... don't be slamin' my Riders!  :D  ;D

McMahon Stadium in Calgary is going to be a sea of green refered to as the "Rider Faithful"!  ;)

Your Grey Cup feast sounds great! The only thing missing is.... me!  ;D

Mike

PS

Here is a link to 10.5's recipe for Yellow Sauce. I really like it on everything including pulled pork.
http://susanminor.org/forums/showthread.php?p=946#post946

[oakville smoker]

Mr Walleye

I dont think I can allow any Rider fans in here.    :P
This is not a green iniative ....   LOL
I didnt like it when they were beating up my Argos but I quite enjoyed the tabbies putting the boots to them a few weeks ago
I think if anyone can give the Als a run for their money, the Riders can
Should be a  good game, so I am hoping. 

Now I have to go think about pulling my pork

[Ka Honu]

Does anyone have a clue what these Canucks (eh) are talking about or are they just sitting around pulling their pork?

[Quarlow]

Not to start a riot here in Vancouver but the Vancouver Millionaires won it 1914-1915 but as you say that doesn't count. So the next best thing to that would be the Victoria Cougars 1924-1925. After that there is nothing for the nuckleheads. So much for good intentions. LOL

[Quarlow]

excuse me I have to go pull some pork. LOL

[Slamdunk]

Mr Walleye,

Here in BC we refer to you Rider fans, not as the Rider Faithful, but the Rider Pride! By the way, have you ever attended the gay "Pride" parade in Regina??

And Ka Huna, please excuse we "Canucks" from celebrating our Grey Cup game trash talking, but our football history is a bit older than the NFL, we're used to it. Especially between "Eastern" teams (BOO !!) and Western teams (Yeah!!!)
     
History - from Widipedia....

In 1909, the Grey Cup was donated by the Governor General of Canada, Earl Grey, to recognize the top amateur rugby football team in Canada. By this time, Canadian football had become markedly different from the rugby football from which it developed. Over time, the Grey Cup became the property of the Canadian Football League as it evolved into a professional football league. Amateur teams ceased competing for the Cup by 1954.

The Grey Cup has long served as an unofficial Canadian fall festival generating a large amount of national media coverage, celebration and fan interest across Canada. Many fans travel from across the country to partake in the week of festivities that lead up to the game. Historians date the carnival-like activities associated with the game back to 1948, when fans of the western champion Calgary Stampeders dressed in western gear, square danced, flipped flapjacks, partied in the streets of Toronto and rode a horse through the lobby of the posh Royal York Hotel.

With the addition of American-based teams beginning in 1993, the possibility of the Grey Cup being hoisted by a team south of the 49th Parallel loomed large. In 1994, the Baltimore CFLs (as they were referred to then because of an injunction issued on the behalf of the NFL to prevent this team from using the Colts name) played in the Grey Cup in Vancouver against the home B.C. Lions. A late fumble on the goal line by Baltimore quarterback Tracy Ham gave the B.C. Lions a chance and Lui Passaglia connected on a game-winning FG as time expired, driving the sellout crowd at BC Place into a nationalist frenzy. This patriotic nationalism would be tested further in 1995 when the Baltimore Stallions returned to the Grey Cup against the favoured Calgary Stampeders led by Doug Flutie. Baltimore won the game 37-20 and took the Grey Cup south for a bittersweet parade as Art Modell, owner of the NFL Cleveland Browns, announced his move to Baltimore for the 1996 season only one week before the Grey Cup. After the 1995 season, American-based teams, many of whom were running into financial problems, folded. Only the Baltimore franchise remained and it relocated to Montreal.

The Grey Cup has been broken several times. The trophy was broken in 1978 when Tom Wilkinson and Danny Kepley dropped it, and in 1987 when a celebrating Edmonton Eskimos player sat on it. It was again broken in 1993 when it was head-butted by Edmonton's Blake Dermott. During the victory celebration immediately following the 94th Grey Cup game in 2006, the winning BC Lions accidentally broke the cup from its base, which contains the engraved names of the players on each year's winning team. It was repaired the following Monday.[3] Other notable events include a 1947 fire which almost destroyed the trophy and a 1969 theft in which the trophy was held for ransom. A replica cup was made in 2008.[4]

[tsquared]

Should be fun to watch, especially the Rider fans in the stands--lookout cowtown. Go Riders!
T2

[oguard]

Looking forward to a good game. I can't cheer for the Als as they are from the East. Hard to cheer for the Riders because of the rivalry with my LIONS. Just gonna sit back and watch the great Canadain game. I think I will make some ribs for half time, The day will start with a breakfast containing my Canadian bacon and eggs. I am sure several beers will follow breafast as I watch the first NFL game of the day and then flip over to the Grey Cup. Hope all the Canadian football fans out there have a great day.

PS for those living in Calgary watch out for the Rider Nation( mostly harmless but always looking for the next can of Pilsner :P)

Mike

[oakville smoker]

Its almost here, have to hope the game lives up to the hype.
Being from the east, I just cant cheer for the west.  French lessons for me till game time.

La pork butt is just about done da marination.  Tonight, I gonna put in the DBS and make some, how do you say smoke, for 4 hours.
Den, I will put in za pot de crock and finish the cook.  So far french lessons are not working....   LOL

The pastrami is ready to emerge from the fridge and find its way to the DBS tomorrow ann my peameal will come out tonight,
get rolled in some corn meal and tossed back in the fridge to set up. Tomorrow, the bacon meets the slicer and Sunday, the bacon
meets the grill.  Whats more Cannuck than back bacon sammies with a cold refreshing Canadian beer ?

Go ALs, they eat green for snacks !

[Slamdunk]

So the 97th annual Grey Cup game is tomorrow and I thought I'd get a head start on the smoking. So I just put two dozen chicken drumsticks in the brines (I'm doing a dozen hot and a dozen with garlic and spice marinade) and stuffed two dozen jalapenos with Herb and garlic cream cheese.

I tried the same chicken drumsticks and brine earlier this week and they were rated a success, except my son and his buddy thought the hot ones weren't hot enough, so I added more hot sauce to the brine this time.

By the way, I read on one of the forums about a jalapeno corer making the job a lot easier, so last nite I bought a corer and it worked great!! I cleaned out the seeds and membrane of two dozen peppers in about 10 minutes tops!! Sure is a lot easier than using a knife etc. And for the first time ever I got some jalapeno in my eyes!! Wow! The tears didn't stop for a heck of a long time!!

Good luck to all Grey Cup fans but especially those from the West!! Go Riders!!

[oakville smoker]

Your Riders will be riding back to the Prairies with their heads in their hands and using their towels to mop of puddles of green tears !    LOL

I just pulled a pastrami out of the smoker, its getting happy in the fridge looking forward to its trip to the slicer otmorrow morning
My pork butt emerged from the slow cooker late this morning.  I am not sure it will live to game day, its too damn good
Best pulled pork I have made.  Imay have toput an alarm system on teh fridge till game tiem !
Just made 50 red Lobster cheese biscuits and enough potatoe salad to feed a small country
A quick stop at the bakery for some fresh buns tomorrow morning and it will be a day from heaven
The fridge is full of beer and I am practicing my french

Viva la Alllouettes !

Have fun all

[RAF128]

I don't think you'll need the french lessons.   You're not going to hear any during the game.   It's in Calgary and I think they outlawed french there ;).   So you should be able to hear the entire broadcast in English.   Hope you enjoy your food and the game.   Of course you and I will be chearing at different times, depending on who has the ball.

[Mr Walleye]

Go Riders Go!

[Quarlow]

Depending who has the ball there may be plenty of french words flying "pardon my french"LOL

[Mr Walleye]

Depending who has the ball there may be plenty of french words flying "pardon my french"LOL

Hey Quarlow... That's the only french I know too!

:D  :D  :D  :D  ;D

Mike