Burris leads Calgary to Grey Cup berth
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11/15/2008 - Calgary, AB (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Henry Burris threw for 236 yards and a touchdown, and rushed for 32 yards and the go-ahead touchdown as the Calgary Stampeders held off the B.C. Lions 22-18 to win the West Division final and advance to the 2008 Grey Cup game.
Mike Labinjo had three sacks and eight tackles for Calgary (14-5), which will travel to Montreal to take on the Alouettes in the 96th Grey Cup game, set for next Sunday. The Stampeders will play for the championship for the first time since 2001, when they topped Winnipeg for the Grey Cup.
Burris completed 17-of-27 passes and was intercepted once, and Ken-Yon Rambo had four catches for 53 yards and a touchdown for Calgary, which swept four games from the Lions this season.
Stefan Logan rushed for 130 yards on 18 carries to lead the Lions offense. Buck Pierce completed 16-of-29 passes for 262 yards and an interception for B.C. (12-8), which failed to advance to its second Grey Cup game in three years. The Lions defeated Montreal for the title in 2006.
Geroy Simon had five catches for 118 yards, and Ryan Grice-Mullen gained 107 yards on six catches for the Lions.
B.C. led 15-9 after Paul McCallum's 12-yard field goal early in the third quarter, but Sandro DeAngelis made two kicks, from 42 and 27 yards, later in the frame to tie the game at 15-15 entering the final quarter.
Burris led Calgary on an eight-play, 69-yard drive, and his one-yard scoring dive gave the Stampeders a 22-15 lead with 11:18 to play.
McCallum made a 30-yard field goal to cut the deficit to four points with 8:36 left, though. Grice-Mullen looked to have the ball wrestled away by Brandon Browner on what wound up being a 36-yard gain after a review with a minute and a half to go, setting B.C. up near midfield, but Pierce threw the ball deep and up for grabs on the next play, and Browner came up with the interception.
B.C. got one last chance when Burris failed to run off the last seconds of regulation before throwing the ball away on third down from the Calgary 41, but Pierce's Hail Mary pass was batted down to end the game.
McCallum connected on four field goals in the first half and conceded one safety as B.C. took an early 12-2 lead. Burris and Rambo connected on a 22- yard touchdown pass with nine seconds left in the half, though, cutting the deficit to 12-9 at the intermission.
Game Notes
McCallum was 6-for-6 on field goals...Lions running back Joffrey Reynolds was held to 43 yards on 10 carries...Nikolas Lewis had four catches for 62 yards for the Stampeders.
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FOOTBALL TRASH TALK
NFL Football Trash TalkTrash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing).
Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion.
Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).
Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.
Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit. And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. The plug-necked yahoos on your team, you can say, will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.
The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.
What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Wheres your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, I'll try to type slower for you next time. Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.
Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, dont just conclude by saying your opponent is a twerp who drafts like my grandmother. Say that your opponent is a sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars. By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.
But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You wont be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, Im sure, to reply.
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