Fire Mike Kelly.
This is a sentiment that is growing in social networking popularity due to the unpopularity of the bombastic Winnipeg Blue Bombers rookie head coach.
A quick search of Fire Mike Kelly on Facebook produced 10 separate results.
Most of the groups are listed under the name Fire Mike Kelly, including one that has a whopping 2,785 members.
And they post frequently.
There's also a group dead set against dismissing Kelly. This group is called Don't Fire Mike Kelly. It has but 32 members. The photo for the group is an animated picture of Kelly wearing a crown, which has been superimposed, from a media conference. That same picture is used in five of the Mike Kelly sites.
One of the more amusing groups is Fire Mike Kelly (Or Duct Tape His Mouth Shut). It has three members.
There are also two Fire Lyle Bauer Facebook sites. Bauer is the President of the Bombers, a longtime friend of Kelly's and one of his strongest backers.
We wondered if there had been any similar sentiments toward Toronto Argonauts head coach Bart Andrus, who similar to Kelly has a 3-7 record in his first season. Well, there is no actual Fire Bart Andrus Facebook group, but there is a variation of it: Argos Suck!!! Fire Kerry Joseph and Bart The Fart!!!! There are 14 members and it has a picture of Joseph and Michael Bishop from the media conference in March, 2008. Both had smiles on their faces. Well, Joseph has been relegated to second-string in Toronto and Bishop has long since moved on. He's in Winnipeg after a short stint in Saskatchewan.
There are 16 separate Bishop Facebook sites, including one which is called Michael Bishop Fan Club and has 72 members. There's another one glorifying him for his days at Kansas State. It has 112 members.
But the majority of the groups about Bishop are not nearly as kind. That's what happens when you play in football hotbeds such as Saskatchewan and Winnipeg.
Current Riders starting quarterback Darian Durant has eight group sites, the majority favourable, although some sharing an opposite view and with unprintable language to proclaim that.
There are six Ricky Ray Facebook groups, most of them in favour of him, including one that proclaims it can find 5,000 people who like him. These would not be the same who are part of the Down With Ricky Ray site, featuring a picture of the Edmonton Eskimos' quarterback with an X across it.
We can only imagine how many Facebook groups would have been created to fire John Huard in his days as the Toronto Argonauts head coach in 2000 had social networking been in existence at that point, or at least to the level it has grown since then. Then again, he only lasted eight games.
There's an inactive Facebook site for the man who hired Huard, the late J.I. Albrecht. It is a testimonial of the man who at one time had been writing his biography, but lost his files. This truly would have been a hell of a story.
We were shocked to find a Fire Ken Miller site. The avuncular (as Jim Lang likes to call him) head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders is easily the nicest guy in the CFL. Period. He has done a great job with the Roughriders. So why would anyone want to fire him? Well, there are no comments on the site from any of the 17 members.
And rightfully so.
I wondered if there were any Facebook sites created in favour or against me. Alas, there are none, which could be construed as a good thing. Then again, Perry's Peerless Predictions are usually filled with enough commentary.
