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Originally Posted by Red John
Couldn't agree more.
The CFL is basically like ECHL hockey. It's a minor professional league, but media has put this idea out there that following it is such a "Canadian thing to do" just like drinking Tim Hortons coffee.
It's no surprise that the biggest cities in the country with the most white collar, wealthy, educated population are the ones that support the CFL the least. They tend to realize it's a marketing scheme and how truly awful the league is.
Seriously? A league with eight teams? One owner owns two different teams? Where referees basically are volunteers (and it shows)? And a GM can sabotage their own team on purpose?
What's hilarious is how people actually believe it's a better brand of football. Here's an idea: let's create a league with six teams, only two downs, a 120 yard field and 13 players on each side. We'll make it wider than its length. You get two points for missing field goals. And no running allowed, only passing and receivers get a 50-yard head start before the snap.
Would you watch that league? Didn't think so.
People need to remember it is only the CFL. It's a good example of why Americans just point and laugh at Canada sometimes. It isn't worth filling up the airwaves with, in which case this entire suspension controversy could have been avoided.
Don't hear people on the radio talking about the AHL or the WNBA or stuff like that often in Canada. Same should go for the Comedy Football League.
Attending a CFL game is great for taking the family out for a nice afternoon and having a barbecue. But it shouldn't be given major radio or media attention like the NHL, NFL, etc.
That's the real problem here.
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Couldn't have said it better myself.
You can debate which league has better rules until you are blue in the face. But once you attend an NFL game in person, (and I recommend sitting no more than 10 rows from the sideline to grasp it.) you will grasp how incredibly inferior both the game and athletes are up here.
Any league that has a 1 in 8 chance in winning a championship every year isn't a league, it is a division.
I will watch a CFL game if I don't have anything to do around the house. But once something more pressing comes up like cutting my toenails, or inspecting my cutlery for water spots....unfortunately it has to take a back seat.