Kelly Bombs Out Of Winnipeg Gig

Those of us at OSG HQ have enjoyed, for the self-serving reason of moving the bacon here on the wires, now-former Winnipeg Blue Bomber head coach Mike Kelly...

He never took any crap from the local media. And if he didn't want to answer a question, Kelly would remind you that he was moving on to the next question...

Now...

BUT... hours after being arrested and charged with assault following a domestic dispute in the morning at his home near Philadelphia, Kelly is looking for work.

The firing, which is now being looked at for a just-cause dismissal, came hours after Bombers CEO Lyle Bauer announced he was checking out...

Most CFL coaches have code-of-conduct clauses in their deals. If Kelly's arrest is deemed a violation of his deal, then the Bombers will look to tell their ex to perch-and-rotate on the remainder of his US$500,000 on the table.

Bank on that idea...

The Free Press's Gary Lawless and Aldo Santin found out what went down on Kelly's arrest back in Pennsylvania.

Bridgeport Police Sgt. John Cane said when officers arrived at Kelly’s home, they found a woman they later learned to be his former girlfriend outside on the front steps.

"When the officers got there, she (the victim) said that Mike Kelly had hit her," Cane said. "She showed us her neck, which was red, she had a small cut on her knuckle, and she had a small abrasion or some type of cut on her lip."

Cane said that Kelly told police that the woman had come to his house to pick up her personal belongings.

"She confronted him in an upstairs bedroom and an argument broke out and it turned physical," Cane said of the explanation offered by Kelly. "He grabbed her, she ended up hitting him in the face, according to him, and he had some evidence of being hit there too, and he grabbed her and pushed her to get her out of the house."

Kelly is due in court next week to answer the charges. Apparently, Kelly's relationship had ended a few weeks ago...

The HQ thinks it really never ended after all...

Here's the rather interesting day the Blue Bomber brass had...
((HT: WInnipeg Free Press))