A few seconds after I had placed a $2 bet on the outcome of a Tim Horton's youth football game at the Argo Dome, it came to me: I'll pretty well put $2 on any of the in-game entertainment.  It also quickly dawned on me that if the red team would simply position its outside linebacker five feet closer to the sidelines, I'd still have my two dollars. I swear that Cowbell Jenny somehow rigged that game.

With a home game coming up this weekend, I thought it was time for an ode to the greatest in-game entertainment the CFL has ever seen: The Dairy Farmers Cheese Race. 

For the uninitiated, the cheese race had three computerized cheeses (a wedge of cheddar, a slice of swiss and a wheel of pepper jack) run through an obstacle course. It goes without saying that it was fantastic. Why?

• It meant people sitting in the same section were jokingly cheering against each other (as opposed to all cheering for the same section or level),

• There was a chance that each of the "competitors" could win. (With the current contest, they have racers representing the luxury suites.  Is there any chance that they would win?) 
  

• Most importantly, they were computerized cheese slices running past swinging knives!  Who doesn't want to see that?

Sure it wasn't perfect - the wedge of cheddar should have had a better record given it's aerodynamic structure, and the first two-thirds of the race were always the same. But outside of the Milwaukee sausage race, it's the best in-game race that Boatmenblog has ever heard of.

So to the Argos promotion staff: Please bring back the cheese.  Don't make us beg...or stock up at the supermarket and stage our own.