Unlike A-Rad and Cowbell Jenny, I didn't have the, um, pleasure of being in Montreal for last night's game. So it's a little easier for me to bypass talking about it, and move on to more important matters.

Last week on The Score's CFL Snap, Arland Bruce III went on at length about his culinary skills.  Prompted by host Duane Ford, he then challenged every player in the CFL to a cooking competition.  We can only assume that this challenge extends to marginal CFL bloggers.

In this spirit, we here at Boatmenblog make a damn fine chilli. And so we challenge you, Arland Bruce III, to a good old-fashioned chilli cook off. The only stipulation we have is that Cliff Washburn cannot be a judge; we can only afford to make 5 litres of chilli.

On the off chance that we somehow don't qualify for this challenge, that Arland doesn't do chili, or - most likely - that Arland ducks us, we've compiled a short list of CFL players who may be up for a contest that doesn't involve beans or ground meat:

Javier Glatt  The defending Defensive Player of the Week lists cooking as one of his hobbies in his bio; curiously, he then proceeds to admit that his favourite pre-game meal is a Subway sandwich. Mr. Glatt hereby challenges Mr. Bruce to a Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki challenge. That Jared character is not allowed to come within 100km of the competitors.

Scott Schultz and Fred Perry: They know full well that Arland can't make a Spergon Wynn sandwich quite like they can.

Duncan O'Mahony: If he ever gets back in the league, he'd be a natural to take on Arland.  Duncan apparently loves cooking, and given his performance in the 2004 Grey Cup, I'm guessing that he makes a great lamb shank...emphasis on the "shank," obviously.