Among the great joys of the CFL are the random encounters with its personalities - players, coaches, broadcasters et al. We know of what we speak: In the past couple of years alone, we've been yelled at by Matt Dunigan, been stopped by our favourite player in a public washroom because he saw us wearing his jersey, and tried in vain to make conversation with Michael Bishop. With time, we'll elaborate on all this, probably more than anyone really wants. The victory party we snuck into after Grey Cup '04 alone should be enough to keep us going for weeks.

The thing is, though, we don't just want to bombard you with our stories - we want yours. Now that we're finally organized enough to have an e-mail address (boatmenblog@gmail.com), we want to know about your awkward, drunken conversation with players, and what lines they used to try to pick up your girlfriends.

Admittedly, we're a little terrified of a CFL equivalent of Deadspin's infamous "You're with me, Leather" scoop with Chris Walby in the Chris Berman role. Fortunately, that one strikes as improbable. But Darren Flutie...that we can see.