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<\/p>\nHello, Dejon Brissett.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s your hype song? Aerosmith\u2019s \u2018Livin\u2019 On The Edge\u2019?<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t worry. Since you\u2019re on a bye, it\u2019ll be a whole week before your teammates can razz you about the razor you did not need to dance on at the end of Monday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
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OK TIRE LABOUR DAY WEEKEND And even when they do, you can merely say \u201cuh, rewind that tape a few seconds\u201d and freeze it at the moment you pulled down one of the year\u2019s most ridiculous catches.<\/p>\n Never has a game\u2019s most spectacular play been so close to also being its, umm, most unfortunate.<\/p>\n Here are the OK Tire Labour Day Weekend takeaways.<\/p>\n A GAME CAN BE JUST LIKE AN AIR POPPER<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Ever watch popcorn pop in an air popper?<\/p>\n The kernels bounce around a little while dancing on the air and that\u2019s interesting enough to watch. Then, a few kernels start to pop, one every fews seconds. Then, BAM. They come fast and furious.<\/p>\n A game, apparently, can be just like that.<\/p>\n The Winnipeg-Saskatchewan tilt was that way, with interesting plays dotted in throughout but then came the last five minutes.<\/p>\n A big punt return becomes a turnover. Pop. A rocket of a pass to the corner of the end zone cuts the home team\u2019s lead to a touchdown. Pop.<\/p>\n A third and six gamble becomes a quarterback quick kick. Pop. That QB kick is so good it leads to a single. No, wait! A safety. No, a single. Pop, Pop.<\/p>\n A third-and-14 bomb by the trailers is incomplete but, no, it\u2019s pass interference and then a Winnipeg touchdown pass cuts the lead to two. Pop, pop, pop.<\/p>\n A wide open receiver is about to convert for two and tie the game but Saskatchewan defensive back Tevaughn Campbell<\/a> leaves a vapour trail behind him as he blazes in to pick the pass off and return it the length of the field for two more Saskatchewan points. POP.<\/p>\n The officials have to physically peel away players, one by one, to see who has recovered an onside kick with 30 seconds left to play.<\/p>\n Popcorn all over the place.<\/p>\n \u201cThey don\u2019t call it the Labour Day Classic for nothin\u2019,\u201d said Roughriders\u2019 quarterback Trevor Harris<\/a> afterward.<\/p>\n The hot-buttered Labour Day Classic.<\/p>\n BONUS TAKEAWAY: Hamilton\/Toronto? Pop, pop, POPPITY-POP-POP.<\/p>\n SEND THE THANK YOU NOTE TO 11000 STADIUM RD., EDMONTON, AB T5H 4E2<\/p>\n Arbuckle to Brown as the Argos move down the field!@oktire<\/a> #LDWeekend<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f: @TorontoArgos<\/a> vs. Tiger-Cats LIVE NOW! \u2014 CFL (@CFL) September 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n In all the frenetic, gorgeous chaos of the Argos\/Ticats game, it could easily get lost; It appears Toronto has an answer to their season-long running back woes and that answer arrived from the Edmonton Elks in return for a conditional eighth round draft pick less than a month ago.<\/p>\n Not that it\u2019s a mistake made by the Elks. They\u2019ve got plenty of running back stardom on the roster already.<\/p>\n But Spencer Brown celebrated Labour Day by handling a big workload for the Argos, with 19 touches for a combined 154 yards, including 10 rushes for 90 yards \u2014 one of them a 27-yard rip \u2014 making it easily the best game for a Toronto running back in 2025.<\/p>\n Brown looked like he might be ready for prime time a week prior when, in his second game, he ran the ball 19 times for 85 yards in a win over BC, but a lot of those yards came late in a Toronto romp.<\/p>\n On Labour Day, it was a stem to stern effort. Brown made it look like the \u201cconditional\u201d part of the trade might well send that draft pick going the Elks\u2019 way higher.<\/p>\n HALFTIME ADJUSTMENTS? THEY JUST GET MEANER IS ALL<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Calgary\u2019s win over Edmonton answered a question I\u2019d never even knew I had rolling around in my head.<\/p>\n What would it look like if Cody Fajardo<\/a> had to try and escape from the vortex of a tornado?<\/p>\n The Stampeders\u2019 defence was relentless, blowing holes in Fajardo\u2019s protective cocoon all game long, forcing the veteran pivot to abandon the pocket time and time and time again. When he wasn\u2019t able to, he got blasted. Even when he was able to, he got blasted.<\/p>\n Calgary\u2019s D was particularly nasty in the second half, a habit that has grabbed some attention.<\/p>\n \u201cWe just have a renewed focus,\u201d said defensive lineman Folarin Orimolade<\/a> when asked what adjustments to strategy were made at the break.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom there we come in and step on people.\u201d<\/p>\n Then he laughed. Because dominating is fun. Being a Stampeder right now is fun.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not re-inventing the wheel when we go in the locker room,\u201d added Orimolade.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n EVEN IN THE MIDST OF ALL THAT IS SPECTACULAR, IT CAN BE THE SUBTLE THING THAT WEIGHS SO HEAVY<\/p>\n TEVAUGHN CAMPBELL WITH AN @oktire<\/a> #LDWEEKEND<\/a> MOMENT FOR THE AGES!<\/p>\n \ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f: Blue Bombers vs. @sskroughriders<\/a> LIVE NOW \u2014 CFL (@CFL) September 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n As mentioned above, one of those popping kernels at Mosaic Stadium was Tevaughn Campbell<\/a>\u2019s interception on Winnipeg\u2019s bid to tie the game on a two point convert, with 30 seconds left to play.<\/p>\n As the play unfolded, I saw Bombers\u2019 receiver Dalton Schoen<\/a> break open in the end zone towards the top of my TV screen and I thought \u201cthey\u2019ve got it.\u201d<\/p>\n And if something else, almost imperceptible, hadn\u2019t happened on that play, Winnipeg quarterback Zach Collaros<\/a> might well have zip-lined that pass straight to Schoen for two and a tie, with even a speedster like Campbell unable to close quite in time.<\/p>\n ALMOST imperceptible, I said.<\/p>\n
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