Hamilton Tiger-Cats

And that's a lot on the shoulders of Mike Morreale.

The Ticats were very disappointing, but it all goes back to one thing, the loss of Bo Levi Mitchell.

And we talk about your point about finding a quarterback to be the leader of that franchise in Ottawa.

you know, early on in the season, the Thai cats look great.

And the Thai cats never recovered.

Now.

Not knowing what the future for the Ticats was, I think they went through.

They had Trey Ford.

He seemed quite happy to be in the scouting position in the US.

Once Ted Gavea left to go to Hamilton, he did change his role a little bit there with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers as well.

I'm curious to see if that's something that he wants to pursue and step into that bigger role.

I believe he does still spend a lot of his time living and operating in the US.

Will that change with taking on a general manager role in our nation's capital?

Well, consider that, and this was something that Scott Milanovich talked about when he signed with Hamilton, is that you're a lot closer to home.

if you're signing with an Eastern club.

Ottawa is not that far.

And the last time that the Brewers were in the World Series was 1982.

So this is almost from us like the Ticats and the Greycaps.

This is very exciting.

Yeah.

Let's see.

Oh, other transactions.

The good news that came out just after our show last week for you and a bunch of others, Bo has re-signed with the Ticats through 28, I think, wasn't it? Is

that good news?

So he's got to be strategic, I would think, and sit down and just chill for a bit before he puts his hand back into the blender, as they say.

Before you go, a well-known native Hamiltonian, and this time of year we don't talk about the Tiger Cats.

We don't.

We just don't.

what he thought.

I was doing the – I guess it was the Ticats-Red Blacks game.

And we put this guy on the show a couple of times.

But he was wearing – he was clearly a Ticats fan.

And I was like, I'm not about to walk in here and act like I'm taking this team over.

These are guys that have been here, have defined this culture in Hamilton.

I want to learn it first, right? So I had to come in and learn that thing from you, right? I taught you about training camp.

First training camp, I got here with Owen.

As a coach, man, I can't imagine what that man has been through this season thinking about those things and trying to get us to a point of, because I promise you, there's nobody that cares more than him.

Absolutely.

You look at Scott, this man's here at 3 a.m., the amount of film this man watches, there's no stone that ever goes unturned when it comes to how do I get Hamilton to be the best football team that we can be.

Absolutely.

We just signed him to a longer-term deal.

There's no hidden motives behind this at all other than we want to make sure that we have depth in the goaltending position, and I think Deacon much like living in Hamilton here, much like my beloved Ticats, losing Bo Levi Mitchell early in the season.

They were playing great, and then they had a tough year.

So we said we want to have someone young, established, that we think can back up, and he's going to come to camp and compete with Shani and with Calum Prea.

My sports editor was a wonderful cantankerous, brilliant British editor who loved this thing called Chelsea.

And I grew up, I thought, well, if you're going to have a team, it's like the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Hamilton Tiger Cats.

What the hell is Chelsea? And around that time, my wife, then girlfriend, now wife, bought me an Xbox.

um because i am and always will be a child um and she bought me ea fifa fifa 2004 i think was my first 2002 and so i paired this british editor talking about chelsea with this new video game and i started playing and that's chelsea yes that's chelsea eider good johnson joe cole frank lampard john terry And wouldn't you know it, I was also a cable subscriber.