Fair enough. I think that CFL talent is better and more entertaining than you're giving it credit for, but you're allowed to not enjoy it anymore, that's fine. It was the "REAL football" comment specifically that bugged me, as it implies CFL is such a joke that it's not even real ball. Hence my "c'mon..". I don't like that mentality that CFL isn't even real football, it's inaccurate and comes off very dismissive and arrogant towards our own game.
I think another factor is when you turn on the TV, the crowd atmosphere / game day experience is just incomparably better in the States than the Canadian game. You watch NFL with a rocking stadium, then flip it over to the Ti-Cats game on commercial and it's a library in comparison, all you hear is light cheering with cow bells and those lame big red horns mixed in. It just seems amateur in comparison (outside of Sask anyway)
But I'd argue a large part of that is because of the growing apathy in Canada for Canadian football, resulting in smaller, quieter crowds than 20 years ago. Though obviously American football crowds were always way crazier, it's their NHL down there. Our love and passion of football as a nation will never touch theirs.
I definitely prefer NFL as well, I just don't like the growing snobbery of younger generations towards our own game. Yeah it's not The Show, but it's professional football in your own city, full of former big name NCAA stars that are still really good in their athletic prime. I just wish people would stop directly comparing it to the best football league on the planet, go down to the stadium have a couple beers and a good time in the summer weather, cheer on the home side, and enjoy it for what it is.
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