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Originally Posted by M*A*S*H 4077
If I remember correctly, Canadian football is actually older than American football so if anything you could argue that the NFL is full of quirky rules and an adaptation of "real" football. But that's pointless.
Yes, I firmly believe the NFL has the better athletes (I also believe that the difference between the leagues isn't as wide as some do - other than some of the superstars) but it's also a completely different game and American players cannot just come up here and dominate as has been proven over and over again. I also believe the CFL has the better set of rules, a catch is a catch up here!
To me the CFL is the greatest celebration of Canada there is. No one can take it away from me and it grinds my gears that there are Canadians who go to great lengths to try to diminish our league.
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This x1000
Modern football in North America was introduced in Montreal. When the Canadians first went to play a US team at Harvard, the Americans liked that the Canadians had the option to run with the ball. They introduced 4 downs instead of the original 3, in an effort to generate more offence. Since then, the American style kept adding and changing rules, whereas the Canadian game has stayed more true to it's original form. Because of limited campus space at Harvard, they didn't have a full sized Rugby pitch to play on. They had one which was narrower and had smaller endzones than the standard. This became the style of field the NFL uses, while the CFL stuck with the original sized Rugby pitch.
CFL rules aren't gimmicky knockoffs of the NFL game, the two leagues aside and just looking at the bare games,and if you look at their history, they're almost two completely separate games. I love both.
I don't mind that people don't like it, but I certainly don't understand the people that seem to aggressively hate it.