As expected, Bombers move west for 2014

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As has been expected since the Ottawa approval.

http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=431718

[Muley69]

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I like this. The West has always been the more exciting conference and, to me, the more the merrier.

Sure wish we could get that 10th team ASAP.

[BaronAmongYou]

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My dark horse pick for 10th city that'll never happen: Saskatoon.

Winnipeg has spent the last generation in the east, I don't really think of them as a western team now.

[Inquiring Mind]

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Are they getting paid again to switch divisions?

[Wilkie12]

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Woo-hoo! We get some company in the basement! 1-9 would not look so bad against 2-8.

[glenvb]

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Yeah! Now we have a shot at NOT being last in the West next year

[nafnikufesin]

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We still have half as many wins as the second-last place team. Of course that could change over the next two weeks, if the coaches fail to draw up a plan to steal defeat from the jaws of victory.

[The Messiah]

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Well, the good news is that we will still have the chance of the crossover playoff spot. The Esks should be better than Ottawa and Montreal next year...don't they ????

[Opus]

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Are they getting paid again to switch divisions?

First thing I thought as well.

[physicist88]

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My dark horse pick for 10th city that'll never happen: Saskatoon.

I'd really like to see a time from the Atlantic Region, but I'd also be a little biased in that respect. It would be nice to have 10 teams to keep both divisions nice and even.

[glenvb]

Re: As expected, Bombers move west for 2014

Well, the good news is that we will still have the chance of the crossover playoff spot. The Esks should be better than Ottawa and Montreal next year...don't they ????

Ottawa and Montreal, eh? Throw Toronto into that mix, and maybe 1981 will play itself out all over again

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_CF...ason_standings

[Macavity]

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We want to come home

[ben_the_eskimo]

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I'd really like to see a time from the Atlantic Region, but I'd also be a little biased in that respect. It would be nice to have 10 teams to keep both divisions nice and even.

I'd like to see that as well, coast to coast!

Hopefully they can make it happen.

[Inquiring Mind]

Re: As expected, Bombers move west for 2014

I'd really like to see a time from the Atlantic Region, but I'd also be a little biased in that respect. It would be nice to have 10 teams to keep both divisions nice and even.

With 10 teams and an 18 game schedule, there isn't even a need for divisions, since the schedule will be totally balanced

[Esks1949]

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My dark horse pick for 10th city that'll never happen: Saskatoon.

Winnipeg has spent the last generation in the east, I don't really think of them as a western team now.

I've always thought it would have made sense if a Western team had been create in Spokane, Washington or Boise, Idaho. Maybe even Portland, Oregon. I don't think the overall thought of US expansion was wrong, it just wasn't carried out the right way.

The Spokane County has a population of 471k and Spokane/Coeur D'Alene area has 666K in pop. Boise, Idaho has embraced a college team that plays sort of a CFL style. Portland doesn't have an NFL team. Boise and Portland have NCAA div. 1 teams so that would be competition. All we would have needed is just one more team in the West and next year we could have had 10 teams in the league.