The Whole 110 Yards: Where we’re making it rain
Pacman Jones won't be making it rain in Winnipeg any time soon.
Apologies for the delayed edition of The Whole 110 Yards this week; a nasty little thing known as work intervened and killed my blogging time. As always, leave feedback and suggestions in the comments, or send them to me via e-mail, Twitter or Facebook.
There were a couple of interesting CFL games last week, including the Edmonton Eskimos’ thrilling 31-30 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Toronto Argonauts’ failure to kick a game-tying field goal in the last seconds of their 23-20 loss to the Calgary Stampeders. We’ll get to those games in detail shortly, but the most fascinating news of the week actually comes from the “Off-field Story of the Week” department. As SI’s Jim Trotter reported Monday night, cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones (West Virginia), he of the strip club troubles, was set to become the newest member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. This made sense from a few different perspectives, but unfortunately for both Winnipeg fans and CFL writers, didn’t come true. Winnipeg was clearly very interested in Jones, and their director of player personnel, John Murphy, was quoted by Trotter as saying the deal was all but done. Unfortunately, it looks like management pulled the plug after a few days of speculation, and received plenty of applause in the local media for not signing Jones (but criticism for even pursuing him). I’ll explain why I disagree with that below, but first, won’t someone please think of the strippers?
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