Pierce hopeful he’ll be playing in next game

By: Paul Wiecek Posted: 1:53 PM CDT Friday, Jul. 15, 2011

Buck Pierce says he is hopeful he will be back at the controls of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers when the team next plays -- July 23 in Toronto against the Argonauts.

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Buck Pierce says he is hopeful he will be back at the controls of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers when the team next plays -- July 23 in Toronto against the Argonauts.

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Buck Pierce says he is hopeful he will be back at the controls of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers when the team next plays — July 23 in Toronto against the Argonauts.

“I feel banged up right now. It was a physical game last night,” Pierce told a hastily assembled news conference at the Bombers offices this afternoon. “My (quadricep) is pretty sore and that’s the thing that limited me in the second half.

“We got three days (off) still,” Pierce continued. “I’ll get in the training room and get working on this quad and start feeling better…I’m pretty confident. I’m feeling a lot better today than I thought I would.”

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Pierce left the game after the first-half Thursday night at Canad Inns Stadium in what proved to be a 21-20 Bombers loss to the Calgary Stampeders.

The Bombers staff went to extraordinary lengths to shield Pierce from media scrutiny after he was pulled from the game, raising speculation that the oft-injured Bombers quarterback was perhaps more seriously injured than the club was admitting.

The club’s media relations department initially continued their lockdown of Pierce Friday morning, refusing a formal request from the Free Press to interview Pierce and saying in an email that the first time he’d be made available to the media wouldn’t be until Monday.

But then the club abruptly changed their position, issuing a press release at 12:30 p.m. Friday advising Pierce would be made available for questions at 1:15 p.m..

Pierce flatly denied he’d sustained any injuries other than a quadricep bruise in Friday’s game. “No. It was a physical game, I got knocked around a few times, but it was the quad.”