Podcast: Rider fans erupt -- driving home from the hospital after missing the game due to the birth of my second child

Everyone in the city and province where James lives is a fan of the local professional sports team: The Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL.) They've only won two championships in nearly one hundred years. The first time was the year James was born. The second time was in 1989 where a downtown-wide street party erupted and he met his future wife.

But the third championship (Grey Cup) came on Nov. 25, 2007. However, the birth of his second child threw a monkey wrench into his plans on watching the big game with his wife, who is also a life-long fan.

This edition of JamesPod is a brief recording of the drive home from the hospital on this remarkable day.

For more information, read the newspaper article about James and family being such fans and having to miss the big game due to labour. (link may go dead after a few days.)

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GREY CUP -- WORST CASE SCENARIO COMES TRUE

What's the worst thing that could happen to an expectant couple who are Rider fans and who have been together since the street celebration after the 1989 Grey Cup?

The wife goes into labour on Grey Cup Sunday, that's what.

No one is more disappointed in the timing that my wife Janice (8 days past due.) We're listening to the radio pregame broadcasts in between contractions.

It's amazing how important the Riders are when a woman in labour is thinking more about them than having her second child.

Wish us luck, and for godsake, someone Tivo the game for us!