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It is with heavy hearts that we announce the sudden passing of Michael Paul Tivador - "Tivi" on March 21, 2025. Please join in Celebrating Tivi’s Life at Tim Hortons Field (64 Melrose Avenue North, Hamilton) in Club Level on Sat May 10, 2025 from 1-4pm. dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituari…

@stoolpresidente @DougFlutie is a class act

Top 5 favorite athletes of all time.

Happy New Year's @Ticats @CFL. We are so ready 2026 #IsItJuneYet #OskeeWeeWeeMF

@VandyTracker Hoping the @Ticats of the #CFL place @diegopavia02 on their negotiation list. The way he plays the game would be a good fit #HammerTown after he's had a chance to chase his NFL dreams. #OskeeWeeWee

What NFL team is Diego Pavia going to end up at?

A @Ticats ticket isn’t really for the football game… For the BoxJBoys its a pass to one more legendary day of good food, bad dancing, laughs with the buddies who make it all worth it. Football is optional. The memories are not. Time is short. enjoy it, laugh hard and cherish.

@JayOnSC 6 7

What would you rate MGK’s #GreyCup Halftime Show? 🎸🎶

@TSN_Sports 6-7

What did you think of MGK's Grey Cup halftime show? 🔥 🕺 #GreyCup

Wow. The @CFL spent all its confetti budget tonight.

Well... Next year #CFL

@oskeemannyo 100000% we partying with our @Cowtownposse brothers.

@BoxJBoys legends. 💛🖤. Calgary next year?

Oskee Wee Wee from the #GreyCup

@CFL Take a guess who #BoxJBoys are voting for... 2 more wins. #OskeeWeeWeeMF #Ticats

Only four teams remain in the hunt for the #GreyCup! 👀 #GCPlayoffs

@PeterDyakowski @rgchernick @LWillson_82 You two still at it? Can we settle this with a in person debate for charity? I'm sure there is a Winnipeg bar that would host one with some proceeds going to @cflffc. Maybe get @rickzamperin or @MikeHoganArgos to moderate. Well? #Sociable #GreyCup @CFL

@LWillson_82 Just confirming, you're telling me rolling over on a key issue of a collective agreement when the other side won't give a penny is smart bargaining? Out-and-out lunacy.

My friend Luke asked me a question, the answer to which I'd like to share with a broader audience as it might be wondered by others. The "4-and-a-half Hour Rule", as it's known, is negotiated between the CFL and CFLPA in their shared CBA. So keep in mind as I go that this is a number, 4.5 hours, which the CFL has preferred to continue with rather than negotiate higher after all the other terms of the CBA were settled in 2022, 2019, 2015, etc. My personal opinion is that a substantially higher minimum salary could be offered by the CFL, say, $100,000, in exchange for increasing this number, but increases in the minimum salary have been very incremental, often lagging inflation or just keeping pace since the start of the modern salary cap era. A "step-change" in the minimum is still eagerly awaited by the players, I am sure. But, getting back to the 4.5 hour rule, how does it work? Generally speaking, you will have 4 days of practice ahead of a game. Days 1, 2, and 3 are normal practice days, the last day before the game, day 4 being a light "walk-through", which still sees a warm up and a bit of motion, but most often no full speed or hitting. You will see most players arrive at their facilities between 6am and 8am on days 1-3, sometimes later on day 4. A few are in before 6am, and a few a little after 8am. Morning activities include treatment/therapy, workouts, taping, and often "players only" positional video study sessions, all done outside of the 4.5 hour window. Players are expected to be taped and ready for practice ahead of 9am when the team meeting starts. 9am is also when the 4.5 hour clock starts ticking. Team, group, and positional meetings cover the next 2 to 2.5 hours. Then the players head out for practice with about 10 minutes of transition time between. Practice runs generally from 11am or 1130am to 1:30pm when the 4.5 hour clock is over. Many coaches have watches that do not work well and most teams remain on the field past 1:30pm. Some players or positional groups do additional conditioning or group or individual work on the field until around 2pm. Then lunch! I believe all teams have a catered lunch now. Then you will often have positional tape sessions from 2pm or shortly after to allow for lunch, to sometime after 3pm. After that, showers, therapy, most players will do hydrotherapy as well. Sadly, most players don't get to shower while being paid! Most people are out by 4pm. But most are in by 7am. About a 9-hour day. Day 4 is shorter. Most are out by 2pm or so. Maybe a 6 or 7 hour day. Game day sees most players arrive at least 2 hours early before early-outs and warm-up. About a 7 hour day on game days. Day 6 is rundown and game tape review. Maybe 4-5 hours, longer with therapy. If it's a 7 day week, day 7 is a day off. Most players come in for hydrotherapy, therapy and rehab, or workouts. Maybe 2 hours. Not counting any work at night, film study at home, etc, it's a 40-48 hour work week, 60+ at the high end. So much for the 4.5 hour rule! But I agree to some extent with Luke that allowing more mandated time for team meetings could improve the product even further. We could go from 20-year-highs for scoring, like we have right now, to 30 or 40 year highs! If the CFL is in the mood for radical change, they should make an overture to the players offering them a substantially higher minimum salary in exchange for some more meeting time.

Happy Halloween. #OskeeWeeWee #Ticats #CFL #Sociable

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@darrylh78 @rushtheband needs to play a warm up tour gig in Winnipeg during Grey Cup weekend.

@BoxJBoys Would you settle for Bob and Doug McKenzie and Getty Lee doing Take Off? #Hosers

No joke. I would so welcome a Shmenges Brothers Happy Wanders Grey Cup half time show. #JohnCandy youtu.be/1p4wGHUi3Bc?si…

@rickzamperin Who?

What do we all think?

@PeterDyakowski The lined pockets along the way needs to be investigated.

For just a tiny fraction of this money we could have had CFL teams in Halifax, Quebec City, Kitchener, London, Saskatoon, Kelowna, Victoria, Prince George, Langley, Windsor, Kingston, and Moncton with 10-year fully funded operating subsidies and also quite a few more icebreakers.

@JohnDHodge @3DownNation @CFL_News @BCLionsDen @lstewy Sold out again

Grey Cup Festival adds limited party pass inventory following sellout, CFL fan backlash 3downnation.com/2025/10/15/gre… #GreyCup | #Winnipeg | #CFL

It sucks. Let me know if anyone needs a +1 or looking to sell a @GreyCupFestival Thursday night show with @Watchmenmusic. They have been on my bucket list to see live since the 90s. Thanks