BC Lions Suck!

Last Friday evening, prior to the skydive, Nancy and I went to our first Canadian Football League (CFL) game at the BC Place, which is one of the major indoor stadia in Vancouver. I had never heard of CFL until moving to Vancouver, but its the Canadian version of the NFL that the Americans play only there is less players on each team and fewer teams in the league. It is the second most watched league sport after the NHL in Canada. We watched the BC Lions play the Winnipeg Bombers with split loyalties. As you should, we were cheering for the local team but Bob wanted us to support his team from Winnipeg.

The game itself was fun to watch when there was action on the pitch, but it was too stop/start and absolutely no flow to it. There were numerous interruptions in which the cheerleaders felt obliged to do a dance and wave to limited effect on the crowd. The play was slowed further by some guy in a red outfit that seemed to be in charge of syncing the game with the television commercials. However, the highlight of the whole experience was heightened by watching a colleague of Nancy wearing a Bestbuy mascot costume and attempting to play football (aka soccer) with fifteen other mascots in the half-time interval. The outcome was hilarious with mascots tripping over each other.

Bob was extremely happy with the overall result as the Bombers won 36 to 10 and the Lions got their arse kicked again this season. Based on the performance I don't think the BC Lions will be winning any trophies this year. Also not sure that we will be frequenting future games, but another experience ticked off our list - I think Nancy's facial expression says it all!