At Least the Riders Won’t Lose This Week
Like a cat watching a ball of string it has batted unravel, the Saskatchewan Roughriders have watched their season hit a 36 year low with a 30-26 loss to the Toronto Argonauts.
In an epically undisciplined yet entertaining contest, the Riders fell just short of notching their first win of the year against an injury riddled team playing a short week. Unless Drew Willy of Winnipeg is out for the Labour Day and Banjo Bowl contests, there may not be a team the Saskatchewan Roughriders will be able to beat in 2015.
I’m not sure of all the stages of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ grief process, but I am firmly in the area of acceptance. Part of it is my experience in an 11 year non-playoff stretch for the Riders which taught me patience and how to drink.
So when I go on social media and see people whose experience has never really included a Rider team sucking this bad, I sympathize, but now part of the fun is seeing the Riders dig themselves out of this. The timing of a meltdown like this is unfortunate, but it could be worse. It could be next season and people would be saying, why pay to see a product like this.