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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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Pretty sure the most well-attended CFL team resides in BC at the moment.
Secondly, do you think newspapers in Sweden don't cover Modo or other elite league teams because they aren't the NHL? Of course not, and they'd be foolish not to.
The CFL is what it is; minor pro football. That said, it's also a league with a hundred years of history behind it. So it's not exactly the ECHL. It's not even close, seeing as it's not the same game. But sure, let's just be exactly like America, because that's always interesting.
People who prefer the CFL would never say that the athletes involved are superior, but I suppose you're going to tell them they should find the NFL more enjoyable. Care to tell them how much sex is appropriate for requisite satisfaction while you're at it?
Third point, the Fan STRUGGLES under the best of circumstances to fill air time. But sure, let's not talk about a league that averages 300+ thousand per telecast because you don't think it's as good as the NFL. Never mind that 26,000+ in this city go out regularly to the games.
Seriously? A league with 8 teams, that's real bush. Not at all like the NHL... Oh wait. The league was actually made up of THREE teams in 1918. How dare they, they should've taken their pucks and gone home.
Americans point and laugh at Canada sometimes because they're #######s. Through the sterile wonderland of the internet, you smell like an #######. Here's an idea: let's have a message board where you never post anything. You're the problem, ass######.