Fumble-aya

Y'know, the Bombers were atrocious on Saturday and deserve to be 0-1. My hand, however, is nowhere near the panic button. A couple of notes from Saturday's debacle.

• Was forced to watch only the second half because I was at the lake and my first realization: "Today's broadcast crew is Rod Black and Leif Peterson." If you want Glen Suitor to look knowledgeable, then take Peterson. There is arguably no worse tandem a network could come up with then Peterson and Black, the man best known for being loudly and repeatedly called out by me at a club in Halifax.

• Kevin Glenn's third-quarter fumble that resulted in a safety wasn't even addressed for what it was — a sack on the one-yard line in which the ground caused the fumble. Reason #4080 why CFL refs combined with CFL coverage is a horrible concoction. Glenn's ball-hand hit the ground and the ball popped out, clearly and unequivocally. The refs don't even discuss it and Peterson, there to enlighten the viewers, doesn't even acknowledge the possibility on the replay when it was staring him in the face. In fact, it was pretty obvious in real-time as well. This is not bitterness over the Bombers getting screwed — let's face it, the game was in hand at that point — but rather just frustration over the idiocy that everyone in the CFL just accepts.

• In another controversial third-quarter play, Wane McGarity drops a pass just before being smothered. The debate of Fumble vs Incompletion begins and the replays, because of the positions of bodies and TSN's lack of camera coverage (a fact I've brought up before as a reason why instant replay won't work in the CFL), shows absolutely nothing. Peterson decides to bring in the "If the CFL had instant replay right now" conversation and decides that the replay would have shown that the referees made the right call. Really? You can't even see the ball and you're telling us that?

Seriously, just hire me to cover CFL games now. There's NO possible way I could be worse than what's out there right now on TSN. Props to TSN for having Chris Cuthbert, one of the most talented and multi-faceted play men this country has.

The NBA draft is starting now. I will provide a running diary as best as I can.