Graham Kelly

Inside the CFL

A couple of weeks ago the second place Montreal Alouettes rolled into Regina and routed the Roughriders 48 -31. Last Friday the fourth place B.C. Lions feasted on horse meat at McMahon, 52-23. As my friend the late Bill Powers, longtime Stampeder radio analyst used to cry, “Will no one stop this senseless slaughter?” What’s going on here?

Usually the victim in one-sided games is a bad team. But the Riders and Stampeders were in first and second place with the best defences in the league. After the loss, Dave Dickenson said, “Hard to watch because it doesn’t look like us.” It hasn’t looked like them since the second half of the Labour Day Game which they won.

The week before that, QB Vernon Adams Jr.’s head barely glanced off a visitor’s knee and he

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