These Bombers are like the Bills if the NFC were quite weak in the 1990s, instead of extraordinarily strong like it was. The Bombers won a couple Cups when the East was weaker, but now that the other conference has pulled their socks up a little bit, it doesn't seem like Winnipeg can win them anymore. Two championships may just be impressive enough to bury all the Grey Cup losses, but if they're not I hope they win another, so this doesn't become the prevailing narrative.
As a Winnipeg fan myself, the wins feel good, but three straight losses does not. They should have won in 2022 and 2023, and their quarterback got hurt mid-game this year. Obliviously it doesn’t matter and I’m not trying to make excuses, and the East is stronger now as well.
I'm a Torontonian myself, so naturally, I am extremely bitter about the way 2023 turned out, but very happy about 2022 and 2024. To me, the wins do not make up for that 2023 loss, because the 2023 Argonauts had the chance to be one of the best teams in league history, and messed it up. We traded two championships that nobody will remember in ten years for the one that would've been remembered forever.
I was there for that Montreal ECF game, and I've never been so disgusted at a sporting event in my life, a life that includes THAT Blue Jays game against Seattle, which I was also there for. I don't know where I'm going with this, other than to say that the whole 'wipe the tears with the rings' philosophy does not hold up. At least it doesn't for me. I would trade both 2022 and 2024 for the ability to end the Argos' epic 2023 with a championship.
The same can be true for Winnipeg. If they can find another championship in the next two years, they can buy themselves the right to be remembered as a dynasty (to me, three championships with roughly the same core makes a dynasty, and no fewer). If not, they will still be remembered (like the 90s Bills are remembered), but much like the Bills, the memory will not be thought of with reverence. Looking back on it in 20 years, there may be more pain than joy.
I've thought about this!
These Bombers are like the Bills if the NFC were quite weak in the 1990s, instead of extraordinarily strong like it was. The Bombers won a couple Cups when the East was weaker, but now that the other conference has pulled their socks up a little bit, it doesn't seem like Winnipeg can win them anymore. Two championships may just be impressive enough to bury all the Grey Cup losses, but if they're not I hope they win another, so this doesn't become the prevailing narrative.
As a Winnipeg fan myself, the wins feel good, but three straight losses does not. They should have won in 2022 and 2023, and their quarterback got hurt mid-game this year. Obliviously it doesn’t matter and I’m not trying to make excuses, and the East is stronger now as well.
I'm a Torontonian myself, so naturally, I am extremely bitter about the way 2023 turned out, but very happy about 2022 and 2024. To me, the wins do not make up for that 2023 loss, because the 2023 Argonauts had the chance to be one of the best teams in league history, and messed it up. We traded two championships that nobody will remember in ten years for the one that would've been remembered forever.
I was there for that Montreal ECF game, and I've never been so disgusted at a sporting event in my life, a life that includes THAT Blue Jays game against Seattle, which I was also there for. I don't know where I'm going with this, other than to say that the whole 'wipe the tears with the rings' philosophy does not hold up. At least it doesn't for me. I would trade both 2022 and 2024 for the ability to end the Argos' epic 2023 with a championship.
The same can be true for Winnipeg. If they can find another championship in the next two years, they can buy themselves the right to be remembered as a dynasty (to me, three championships with roughly the same core makes a dynasty, and no fewer). If not, they will still be remembered (like the 90s Bills are remembered), but much like the Bills, the memory will not be thought of with reverence. Looking back on it in 20 years, there may be more pain than joy.