The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcast

RWB CFL podcast #300

This week, it’s episode #300 of the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast – and as MAD magazine would put it on similar occasions: “very big deal.”

Because this is football podcasting, RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard aren’t so interested in the distant past when the recent past will suffice, like a week 15 in which 258 points were scored and the East division tightened.

And for the Rider haters (hey, we’re sympathetic), the RWB rolls back gloomy thoughts of the 2025 CFL champion Saskatchewan Roughriders – does giving up 48 points to McLeod Bethel-Thompson’s Montreal Alouettes indicate chinks in the armor…?

Per usual, RWB previews the upcoming week’s games and talks early playoff scenarios (or, rather, the lack thereof).

The Rouge, White & Blue: Podcasting since Edmonton were last CFL champions…

RWB CFL podcast #299: Riders and Ticats feeling inevitable

Meanwhile in Canada…

Coming into the homestretch, the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast notes that things are turning, um, south for co-host Joe Pritchard’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers, co-host Os Davis’s Montreal Alouettes, and not-quite-everybody’s vogue pick for the 2025 Grey Cup, BC Lions.

So what’s left for the RWB to do but marvel (some more) at those Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, not to mention the utterly amazing Justin Rankin?

We wrap last week’s games and as usual try valiantly to put forth rational pick and predictions for week 16.

The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Just call us the Bethel-Thompson Twins…

 

RWB CFL podcast #298: Fireworks on Labour Day

(Alternatively: “Two barnburners and a Calgary stampede”)

In an annual tradition, Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast hosts break down the annual traditional slate of the CFL’s Labour Day Classic games. RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis are wowed by the Calgary Stampeders, accepting of another Saskatchewan Roughriders win and wondering where those Toronto Argonauts and BC Lions’ll finish.

The RWB also couldn’t help but to peek at the remaining schedule, what with the 2025 season entering the homestretch (well, approaching the homestretch) while attempting to pick winners against the spead an din CFL Pick ‘Em…

The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Still saying nice things about the Stamps and Riders…

 

RWB CFL podcast #297: Argos hang 50 on BC, Stamps dominate

What can the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast say about week 12 of the 2025 CFL season? Well, it’s a podcast, so you can be sure RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis fins something to say.

Lots of somethings, in fact. Somethings like:

• Wouldn’t the Winnipeg Blue Bombers really, *really* like a bye right about now?
• Speaking of weirded-out schedules, how about the Calgary Stampeders now sitting at 5-0 versus the Bombers and Saskatchewan Roughriders?
• Is there anything more disenheartening than watching a star-studded Montreal Alouettes defense go for naught as the offense gets completely crushed in TOP and, you know, points scored?
• How about those Toronto Argonauts, hanging 51 on the BC Lions and suddenly playing themselves into contention?
• And how about those Edmonton Elks, just a half-game out of the playoffs while helmed by the mysteriously underrated Cody Fajardo?

Answers (or at least attempts thereof) to these questions and more – plus picks and predictios for the Labour Day Classics of week 13…

The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Sorry, the N-F-what?

RWB CFL podcast #296: Talking crossover, inevitably…

After week 11 of the 2025 CFL season, certain things have become quite clear at the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast … things Like the Saskatchewan Roughriders may be even better than advertised; the (defending champion!) Toronto Argonauts might be worse than we thought; and, of course, the seeming inevitability of the West-to-East crossover come playoff time.

The realization leads to some classic CFL-based conversation by RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard – the RWB questions whether the crossover is in itself fair for the no. 2 and no. 3 West seeds. And while one easy solution might just be to add a 10^th team, Joe presents an intriguing case as to why adding the Atlantic Schooners, Halifax Fighting Lobsters or whomever might actually be a *bad* move for the league.

But beyond the tangents, the RWB guys (attempt to) make sense of the week that was and pick/predict week 12, including an RWB Bowl matchup featuring the Winnipeg Blue Bombers vs the Montreal Alouettes (with quite possibly QB #5 going for the latter) and a marquee Riders-Calgary Stamps game.

The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: No more 2014, please!

RWB CFL podcast #295: No end in sight

Week 9 of the 2025 CFL season is in the books and thanks to wins, the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats have extended their divisional leads. The Rouge, White and Blue CFL Podcast seesd no end in sight – good news for fans of these two teams, though…

RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard wouldn’t know. Bombers fan Joe talks some of the shuffling in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ secondary after getting repeatedly torched by Damonte Coxie, win notwithstanding. And when Joe points out that the Montreal Concordes Alouettes were celebrating 80s Night, Os can only celebrate José Maltos-Diaz.

As always, the RWB recaps the past week of Canadian football, and we’ve also got another weekly summary of the Crankshaft comic strip’s featured story on the Blue Bombers game (Minneapolis airport! A Zach Collaros namedrop! Poutine!). And of course, picks and predictions for next week (though don’t necessarily go with Joe on his Calgary Stampeders pick)…

The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Wait, we’re halfway through this thing…?

 

RWB CFL podcast #294: No Lead is Safe (Again)

Week 8 in the CFL has the Rouge, White and Blue CFL Podcast a bit divided: co-host Os Davis has aged badly due to a third consecutive last-minute heart-attack special by his Montreal Alouettes, while Joe Pritchard reckons with his Winnipeg Blue Bombers playing some shabby football for the first time since before Covid-19…

As ever, the RWB recaps the past week of football – including those comeback specials by the Als in Calgary and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in BC. We’ve also got a summary of the Crankshaft comic strip’s featured story on the Blue Bombers game and picks/predictions for next week (told y’all the pick in week 8 was the Hamilton/BC over!)….

The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: One more victory like this and…

RWB CFL podcast #293: Als inducing heart attacks, Stamps stomping

Sure, the Rouge, White and Blue CFL podcast will do the usual weekly bits: co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard talk week 7 action, make picks and predictions (for what it’s worth) on the week 8 games – you know the deal.

But first, the RWB chats up a neat informal CFL crossover event that will be going on for a few weeks yet. Get this: The creator of Crankshaft –

No, not the auto part. This Crankshaft is a spinoff of Funky Winkerbean –

Funky Winkerbean? It’s running today but was a particular favorite in the 1980s and 90s. As it turns out the creator of Crankshaft and Funky Winkerbean is a huge Winnipeg Blue Bombers fan, so the next couple dozen Crankshaft comic strips will be devoted to –

“What’s a comic strip?” Ah, never mind, just check out GoComics.com and you’ll get right into the story.

And the RWB promises they’ll be no other old-guy stuff for the remainder of the episode.

The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: “We also sat around and watched football, which back then was called baseball…”

RWB CFL podcast #292: Stamps, Ticats partying like it’s 2014

This week’s theme on the Rouge, White and Blue CFL podcast That strange feeling when the Calgary Stampeders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats are leading their divisions…

RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis look back on a week 6, which not only saw the Stamps and Ticats notch wins against division rivals, but wins games by dint of defense rather than ace QBs. Strange times, indeed.

On the other hand, another sad loss by the Edmonton Elks may already be taking this team off the playoff standings board already in what is probably another loooooong season for Elks backers.

This plus a look ahead to picks and predictions for week 7 – Will it be another four games in bizarro world….?

The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Really, though…?

RWB CFL podcast #291: The traditional Week of Upsets

One of the CFL’s unsung traditions – probably due to its sheer randomness – is the annual week’s worth of games whose outcome simply makes no sense in the moment.

And so Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard rehash the week 5 slate, four games that destroyed any delusions you may harbored of pullilng off a decent year in CFL Pick ‘Em while giving hope (or maybe more hope) to the likes of Hamiltion Tiger-Cats and Calgary Stampeders fans.

Amidst the bafflement around the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ blowout loss in the first-ever Stampede Bowl and Os’s gnashing of teeth over BC Lions running up 146 penalty yards yet the W in Montreal are kudos for a couple of RBs, quite a few special teams guys and, of course, Bo Levi Mitchell.

Then it’s on to the proverbial next week with some Pick ‘Em picks and predictions on the lines – the RWB might be shaking off these losses for a while…

The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Trying not to get upset about upsets…