Riders 2016 is as relentless as Zombie Attack!
Halloween is my sister’s birthday and ever since I found the 666 tattooed on her head, I have been forced to fight her evil, so the Riders 42-19 demolition job loss to the Calgary Stampeders on Halloween came as no surprise.
The common reaction in my neck of the woods is huh, the season is still going on? Then on the one hand you have the type of fans who urge support for the team no matter what; over yonder you have the fans who fell off the bandwagon and say this team is condemned to eternal hellfire and mediocrity. Then I’m over here with the rest of the misfits, having lived enough to have gone through such seasons (although I have to admit, not this record-breaking bad) to know it is not the end all and be all.
The latest spin out of official Riderville is the Riders loaded up for the Grey Cup win in 2013 and with hindsight; would you have loaded up the team knowing it would have imploded two years later? Most people would nod and say yes, but I reject the premise of this question.
The results of the 2015 season were not an inevitable result of the 2013 Grey Cup season. This season is the result of stupid management, stupid coaching, and stupid decisions because the person at the center of it all – Cory Chamblin – was not challenged or had his bad football craziness checked by someone more rational.