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Doug Ballanger

@dougb519.bsky.social

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Administrator of the PREMIER supporters group in the CFL, The Double Blue Order, Co-host of @ArgosFancast. Avid fan of the many codes of sportsball.

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Doug Ballanger @dougb519.bsky.social · 16h

I'll be doing so. Several of my friends have already sent furious emails too.

Doug Ballanger @dougb519.bsky.social · 17h

About that....i'll keep ya posted. 🫶

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Doug Ballanger @dougb519.bsky.social · 18h

From my understanding, host city makes the calls here.

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Doug Ballanger @dougb519.bsky.social · 18h

No idea on either one.

Doug Ballanger @dougb519.bsky.social · 18h

It is a good deal, but price isn't the issue. It's the fact that they're sold out already, with no option to attend the team parties on their own, and no walk-ups. So a lot of GC veterans who go JUST for the team parties are screwed.

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Doug Ballanger @dougb519.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks Jan 🫶

Doug Ballanger @dougb519.bsky.social · 18h

I smell someone forging wristbands...

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Doug Ballanger @dougb519.bsky.social · 18h

Price isn't the issue.

Doug Ballanger @dougb519.bsky.social · 18h

It's their biggest convention centre, and it ain't small by any stretch of the imagination.

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Doug Ballanger @dougb519.bsky.social · 18h

That's why I go, i'm too much of a jock to go to FanExpo! 🤣🤣

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Vince Rulé @vincentrule.bsky.social · 18h

The team parties are what make GC week fantastic. We went to one of the concerts in Edmonton 2018 and we left early vowing to never go again. This move will piss off more people than they ever could have imagined.

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Doug Ballanger @dougb519.bsky.social · 18h

So far, that's a good call. We'll see if there is a reversal, but right now i'm working some phones to see if maybe I can come up with something for those frozen out.

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Doug Ballanger @dougb519.bsky.social · 18h

Whoever it was probably had the Zach Collaros experience several times in their life i'm sure. Such a myopic view of things man.

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Doug Ballanger @dougb519.bsky.social · 19h

Apparently...The Winnipeg Grey Cup committee thought it was a fantastic idea to sell ONLY 3 day team party passes tied with the concert series. So no single day passes, and not selling at the door. An awful lot of GC vets are frozen out and rightly pissed off.