Watching Eskimos

So we went to see my first CFL game yeterday evening, the Eskimos playing at home to the B.C. Lions. Now the Eskimos won the CFL Grey Cup last year so they should be awesome, but it didn't quite turn out that way because they ended up going down to the Lions 41-34. The Eskies defence was pretty woeful but it meant we saw a high scoring game and there were moments of real tension when they were only down by a point or were 3rd and 2 with 2 minutes to go and only a touchdown behind. Sadly the Eskimos seemed to lose their minds at exactly the wrong times and ended up making what seemed like insane tactical decisions, leaving us the fans clutching our heads in dismay. Sport in Edmonton in the summer has got it all though, because it doesn't get dark until sometime around 10:30 or 11 and so there's plenty of sunshine. The game was at Commonwealth Stadium
which is a huge, old-school open air stadium that was built for the Commonwealth Games (funnily enough) in 1978.