And on the Bart Andrus story, found this interesting:
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Andrus just never really got Canada
David Naylor
For a final word on dismissed Argos head coach Bart Andrus, I'd like to share a story.
During Saturday of Grey Cup week, I ran into Bart on a street corner in Calgary. Despite the many critical things I'd written about the job he'd done with Toronto, Bart was always very pleasant with me and this was no exception.
We chatted for a brief while about football and then he said to me, "Do you know where there is a sports bar around here? I want to watch the NCAA Divsion I-AA playoffs."
To which I said I didn't think any bar in Calgary (or Canada, or any TV in Canada) would have the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs. I suggested he try to see if he could find it on-line somewhere if he had a computer with him.
The point of this story was summed up by my friend Michael Landsberg, host of TSN's Off The Record, when I told it to him later that week.
"Bart doesn't understand where he is," said Michael.
And that was true in so many ways.
There was so much for him to learn about the culture of the CFL, its players and its rules but he never really got it. He never really understood where he was, that he wasn't in America any more.
Just like that day on the street corner in Calgary.
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Kind of funny the headcoach of a CFL team trying to find a place to watch an NCAA game on Grey Cup weekend in the host city. I can understand him wanting to watch the NCAA games on saturday, but really, let's be serious. The Queens/Dinos game was on Saturday. If anything, pubs should have that on tv. Plus all the Grey Cup hype.