2006-10-20 05:54:33 · 22 answers · asked by Peter W 2 in Sports ➔ Football (Canadian)
Sigh...Canadian football is a sport in which two teams of twelve players each compete for territorial control of a field of play 110 yards (100.6 m) long and 65 yards (59.4 m) wide, with end zones 20 yards (18.3 m) deep. At each goal line is a set of forty-foot (12.2 m) high goalposts, which consist of two uprights joined by a crossbar 18.5 feet (5.6 m) long which is ten feet (3.1 m) above the goal line. The goalposts may be H-shaped (both posts fixed in the ground) although in the higher-caliber competitions the tuning-fork design (supported by a single curved post behind the goal line, so that each post starts ten feet (3.1 m) above the ground) is preferred. The sides of the field are marked by white sidelines, the goal line is marked in white, and white lines are drawn laterally across the field every 5 yards (4.6 m) from the goal line.
2006-10-21 06:59:11 · answer #1 · answered by Answerer17 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
enough of the hating......i'm a cfl fan in detroit.. if people can't answer a question without sense, go someplace else. if anyone wants to diss american football, how about filling up those empty seats in stadiums so we don't have another ottawa situation
differences:
CFL-110 yards long x 65 yards wide and endzones 20 yards deep
NFL-100 yards long x 53 yards wide and the end zones are 10 yards deep
CFL-12 players on field NFL-11 players on fields
cfl has three downs 1 timeout per half
nfl has four downs 3 timeouts per half
times differ on play clock, cfl has three minute warning in halves
nfl has two minute warning in halves
nfl kickoff at 30 yardline
cfl kickoff at 35 yardline
there are a few more, but the ball used in each league is the same size........
for those dissing the canadian game, the players from mcgill, located in montreal, played a three game series against harvard, which introduced
the american style of playing we know now...... the american style at the time resembled the english football we call soccer in the usa
the league we know now as the cfl technically sprouted in 1958 out of the canadian football union(1956), which was the result of the canadian rugby union, which began in 1892.
the championship game, the Grey Cup, first played in 1909, was won by the University of Toronto.
does anyone know the name of the woman who ran naked across the field in freezing weather at the 1975 Grey Cup?
too bad answerer1's answer didn't explain the differences
sometimes you can't find the answers on the internet, fugi....
2006-10-21 13:42:09 · answer #2 · answered by strangebizarreman 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
BETTER than American football. The only reason why the CFL is not as big as the NFL is because the money isn't up here to attract the big names. But to say that the CFL doesn't have any big names is a lie. The league has some amazing players, many of them American, who came up here probably wondering what the hell they got themselves into, but then wound up falling in love with the game and the country. Warren Moon and Doug Flutie are two of the biggest examples I can think of.
By the way, did you know that the Rock tried out for the CFL's Calgary Stampeders but got cut? It was then that he got into wrestling.
2006-10-21 12:49:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think, I may be wrong however, that the CFL has been around longer than american pro football. Its where all the college stars go if they are too small for the NFL, prove themselves up there, then get a shot at the big time. Watch ESPN2 once in a while, right now the Argonauts of Toronto(Ricky Williams, Noel Prefontaine) are playing some other team.
2006-10-20 20:23:46 · answer #4 · answered by buccaneersden 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Internet. It has this thing called the Web. On it are search engines where you can type in words and like magic you can find answers to such questions. That way you can stop posting questions that clearly indicate your brain does not work.
But to fire back...what the hell is NCAA Div. 1 college football? I think it's overhyped bad football compared with the CFL. Ron Dayne--Heisman award winner...uh, NFL player?
2006-10-20 14:46:58 · answer #5 · answered by fugutastic 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Similar to NFL but slightly different rules:
- only 3 downs to get 10 yards
- fewer timeouts
- bigger football
- wider and longer field. field goal post is at the front of the end zone, not the back
- no fair catch rule
- no coach challenges
- one extra player on the field
2006-10-20 21:16:15 · answer #6 · answered by ~O.N.E.~ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not the same as the NFL. It is similar, but it has slightly different rules. For example: The football is bigger, we only get 3 downs, and we have a thing called the rougue.
2006-10-20 17:55:22 · answer #7 · answered by ASizzle21 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
same as American football with the exception of:
bigger football
larger field
12 men
3 downs, not 4
20 second play clock
2006-10-20 21:40:47 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Better than American football. Bigger ball, longer field, wider field, no fair catch, 3 downs, 1 time out.....
And no matter what buccaneersden says, it is not on ESPN or ESPN2
2006-10-20 14:43:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
O my god!! It's unbelivable!!! It's canadian league football! Don don don! Oh yeah, STOP HATIN' CANADA AMERICANS!
2006-10-22 20:40:04 · answer #10 · answered by LarbradorianGuy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋