Soul Glo Sports Cage's NFL Preview

Same old Eli.

Trenches. Guts. Turnovers.

Notable players in the CFL

The time of the year has come again for me where I try hard to get into the CFL because really there aren't much sports out there. I wanted to find out what players I know of maybe from College or NFL who play in the CFL currently. I lazily googled and I couldn't find anywhere that has a list of ex NFL current players in the CFL . It shouldn't be this hard to find this. So i decided to do my own research and go roster by roster to see who I recognize. At the end of this article I'll review who I saw and make my decision on who I'll be rooting for.

BC Lions: 
John Beck- ex Dolphins QB draft pick bust (I'm a Dolphins fan so already made decision, the hell with the BC Lions)

Winnipeg Blue Bombers:
Brian Brohm- hey I remember him! Former Louisville star QB, older brother is Jeff.
Robert Marve: He finally graduated from college? HOLY SHIT! (QB for Miami Hurricanes and Purdue)
Bruce Johnson: ex Miami Hurricane and New York Giants DB

Edmonton Eskimos: 
Pat White: Failed Bill Parcells era draft pick for the Dolphins

Hamilton Tiger-Cats:
Dan LeFevour: I actually remember this guy from Central Michigan because he left college as the all time total touchdowns leader (broken since then in 2011)
Jacory Harris: Quite possibly the worst starting QB in Miami Hurricanes history. Um yeah I'll pass on this team...

Calgary Stampeders:
Drew Tate: Ex Iowa QB

Toronto Argonauts:
No one I recognize, this might actually be a good thing.

Saskatchewan Roughriders:
 On team name alone I like this team more already. I totally copy pasted the team name too.This is how RoughRiders roll.
Macho Harris: They have a guy named Macho!
Tino Sunseri: They have a Tino!
They also have a Sisco....

Montreal Alouettes:
Chad Johnsons team. Fun to watch this team based on him alone.
Troy Smith: notable for being an ex Ravens QB. Oh and he won a Heisman Trophy at Ohio State.

Ottawa REDBLACKS:
Henry Burris: 39 year old QB. Ex usual sucky Chicago Bears QB.

Okay as you can see not many notables on any of these teams while scanning through their rosters. Who should I root for this year? Probably no one but it would be Winnipeg for now. Bruce Johnson being on the team is kinda cool.

Michael Cage - THE REAL DEAL

look who makes an appearance in the NYTimes article below!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/sports/basketball/a-generational-wealth-of-nba-talent.html?ref=sports&_r=0

unfortunately the jheri curls aren't in existence anymore.


credit: Stuart Palley for the New York Times

Looking back at SI magazine October 26th 1981 issue

The 1981 Yankees were really something, and so were their fans! Throwing fireworks , baseballs and who knows what else:

FSU vs Pitt

Fred Lebow of the New York Marathon dissing the Chicago Marathon

Looking back at SI June 2nd 1980

June 2nd 1980

Johnny Rutherford was the shiznit in the Indy racing world

Baba Booey.... among others telling us about their experience seeing the Islanders win the cup

The 1980 Mets get a new owner and o hey look Fred Wilpon. Lot of classic footage in the yearbook of the 1980 season.

Willie Shoemaker and Magic Johnson made a commercial



#1 song at the time....never seen the Funky town video till today, its uh exactly what I expected I guess

Random music at the time, DEVO

Looking back at old random magazines and their content using youtube

Sports Illustrated December 7th 1981 issue

I thought I'd start of this historical look back of old magazines  and what was inside of them using current youtube videos would be interesting for retro sake and sometimes funny. I want to start it off by doing the first SI magazine that was put out after I was born.  Most of the stuff however that I will post from now on will also come from magazines I own.

1st thing I thought about when i saw the cover was the great song from Wings called Band On The Run. I remember seeing a book about Paul McCartney once called Man On The Run , I know a few people who think man on the run is the lyric in the song, not band. Anyways this the soundtrack to this magazine, yeah wtf.

I will post videos from around that time from ads (or closely related to) in the magazine as well. Cameras have come a long way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyc6aR1EXgo

Talking clocks was a thing:

TAKE A BITE OUT OF CRIME

"she-devil" -all LA Rams fans

PITT vs Penn State

Iron Bowl 1981

Article about Herb Brooks not feeling at home with the New York Rangers. Here he is pissed off about something else though

I woudve hit it...

Movember related beer commercial

The good and bad of 1981 Tony Dorsett

NINETY NINE YARDS AND A HALF


Thats how you treat a car!...

QUEEN, EPIC





theres an ad for ESPN saying you can watch sports anytime you want. Sports like frisbee! I miss random crap on ESPN


song from the top album at the time

random  music of the time, Depeche Mode

Our Allegiances

what teams do we root for professionally? well, time to shed a little light on that.

eddie - probably the original ringleader of the SD guys. the teams he roots for are varied and many:

• soccer: arsenal. borussia dortmund. inter milan. real madrid. millonarios of colombia. seattle sounders.
• baseball: st. louis cardinals (jerk), and the florida marlins.
• football: miami dolphins.
• basketball: miami heat. at least he's stuck with them since dj seiks.
• hockey: florida panthers. 

ian - the only guy across the pond.

• soccer: valencia. bolton. stoke city because of his intense hatred for them, and because jonze said so. fc gresley.
• hockey: washington capitals. because USA.

BUTTS - every team he roots for is cursed.

• soccer: sunderland initially but couldn't stand to watch getting dicked over every week. so now he roots for tottenham. and lol they haven't been to the champions league since.
• baseball: texas rangers. it beats rooting for the astros.
• basketball: san antonio spurs. big on fundamentals and "boring" basketball.
• football: new orleans saints. good on butters to stick with his hometown team from a distance.
• hockey: dallas stars.

bassel - works at a major sports network. doesn't really give a shit about sports somehow.

• soccer: liverpool fc. maybe this will be the year. if only they'd ditch their 2013-14 away kits. LA galaxy.
• baseball: the cubs. wtf?
• hockey: pittsburgh penguins and probably the kings.
• basketball: the clippers. because LA.
• football: the LA rams, even though they haven't been in LA for about 20 years. jim "don't call me chris" everett. JUST RAM IT.

verndogs - probably the most rabid sports fan among us. somehow encapsulates everything i hate about the average sports fan. the stugotz.

• soccer: manchester united. doesn't root overtly for a la liga team but he has a real madrid and barcelona shirt. has a bayern munich shirt somewhere. dallies with the red bulls but can't wait to jump ship if another MLS team is in the ny metro area. werder bremen in the bundesliga, formerly borussia moenchengladbach. so random, just like vern.
• baseball: formerly a fan of the yankees and mets until i convinced him he needed to choose one, so he chose the mets. i wonder if he hates me for that.
• football: J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS. because stugotz.
• basketball: knicks. hating the dolans since forever.
• hockey: rangers. see above re: the knicks.

jonze - the biggest hater in the group. just hates on everything.

• soccer: chelsea fc. seems appropriate. all italian teams and irish teams on principle.
• baseball: the white sox. roots for an actual winner.
• basketball: the bulls, but watches 15 seconds of basketball a season.
• football: DA BEERS.
• hockey: the blackhawks. another winner.

trunks - the only ballboy of the group. at it since 1998.

• soccer: manchester united. pseudo bayern munich fan. can't watch serie a without falling asleep. la liga matches are entertaining with pepe smash. red bull arena in harrison, nj is nice.
• baseball: the mets. back in the day, games were 50 cents, thanks to my elementary school.
• basketball: the knicks. ugh.
• hockey: the rangers. sather has to have incriminating photos of dolan somewhere. the avalanche because joe sakic was elegant.
• football: the giants. dave brown and danny kanell were legends.