The league leading British Columbia Lions, the team that best exemplifies consistency in the CFL this season heads into Hamilton tonight, set to take on a team in the Tiger Cats that are perhaps the poster children for baffling.
The Ti Cats have on alternate weeks looked like the team most likely to give the Lions a run for their money on Grey Cup Sunday or the team that can help make the Winnipeg Blue Bombers look like the team with a blue print for success.
On to many game days, the latter TiCat squad has taken to the field.
The most recent example of TiCat inconsistency came last week when the Cats offered up little in the way of resistance to the struggling Edmonton Eskimos, allowing the Eskies to break a winless streak that had stretched as far back as August.
With that loss, the Cats put their playoff hopes in peril, allowing the Eskimos to rekindle their own plans for playoff football, perhaps at the expense of the Cats through the CFL's crossover rule, where a team from the West with a better record can bump the third place Eastern team from the playoffs.
As it stands today, it would be the Cats looking from the outside at the CFL playoffs for 2012.
Clearly the need to get back on track and cobble together a string of wins is at hand, the problem is that this weekend Hamilton faces the CFL's most rounded football squad, equally strong on defence as well as offence, featuring a solid special teams game, there's not much for the Ti Cats to try and work on.
Best they can hope for perhaps, is that the Lions have a relapse as they did in Saskatchewan a few weeks back where they slept their way through the first half before getting into the game, a situation that didn't work out too well for the Leos, though they did make it close in the end.
We imagine there was a lesson learned in Regina two weeks ago, one that won't be forgotten as they Lions face the Cats tonight.
Game Time 7:30 PM ET, 4:30 PT, Ivor Wynne Stadium, TSN
British Columbia 37 at Hamilton 17 (26,842)
Pre Game
CFL.ca-- Game Preview
CFL.ca-- Video Preview
Globe and Mail-- B. C. Lions charging boldly ahead
National Post-- Avon Cobourne wants crisper Tiger-Cats heading to B. C.
Vancouver Province-- B. C. Lions tailback Andrew Harris is racking up plenty of yards...
Vancouver Sun-- Lions will give Andrew Harris lighter load
Hamilton Spectator-- It's Now or never for the Cats
Team Backgrounders
British Columbia Lions
Hamilton Tiger Cats
Post Game
CFL.ca-- Game Recap
CFL.ca-- Video Highlights
Globe and Mail-- Travis Lulay leads B. C. Lions past Hamilton Tiger Cats
National Post-- Travis Lulay leads Lions' onslaught in win over Ticats
Vancouver Province-- Lulay and Lions make it look easy in 37-17 win over Ticats
Vancouver Sun-- Travis Lulay, Lions dismantle Ticats, 37-17
Hamilton Spectator-- Things have gone from bad to worse for this Ticat squad
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