The team that's hosting the Grey Cup isn't supposed to have much of a chance of making it there itself. In fact, it's pegged before the season as quite possibly the worst team in the league. Then it comes charging out of the gate, and everyone - Chris Schultz especially, for some reason - spends a lot of time lauding it as the season's best story...only to watch in horror as the quarterback goes down and the team promptly implodes, suddenly hard-pressed to win another game all year.

Sound familiar? It should. Meet the 2004 Ottawa Renegades. 

Admittedly, the similarities with this year's Blue Bombers don't entirely hold up. For one thing, the 'Gades collapse started a bit earlier. And no matter how bad things get, it's pretty hard to imagine the Bombers (or the "Blue," as Winnipeg media are calling them in what appears to be a fit of political correctness) getting destroyed by Jason Maas. Also, though we can't believe we're saying this, Friday night's game would suggest that Doug Berry might actually be a worse head coach than Joe Paopao - his "zero tolerance" for losing notwithstanding.

Still, we like this angle. After all, any comparisons with the 2004 season are good with us. And the same goes for anything that increases the likelihood of Berry and/or (not the real) Greg Marshall giving us the finger.