Should the NFL venture into Canada and play football? maybe taking in the CFL teams, even though the rules are quite different??
2007-12-01 16:59:52 · 12 answers · asked by ashkicker911 2 in Sports ➔ Football (Canadian)
East, Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger Cats,
West, Saskatchewan Roughriders, BC Lions, Calgary Stampeders, Edmonton Eskimos,
Ottawa Renegades are a temporarily folded team that could be restored.
Canada already tried bringing america into our game,
CFL Usa went for 3 years,
7 teams in total
1993
sacremento gold miners (aka sacremento's sacrifice) 6-12
1994, Baltimore CFLers, 12-6
shreveport Pirates 3-15
las vegas posse 5-13
sacremento gold miners 9-8-1
Baltimore made the playoffs, and lost in the finals,
all others missed the playoffs
1995, las vegas folded, sacremento went to san antonio
teams were changed from east and west to north and south
usa rankings, *made playoffs
*baltimore stallions 15-3
*san antonio texans 12-6
*birmingham barracudas 10-8
memphis mad dogs 9-9
shreveport pirates, 5-13
baltimore won the championship, then relocated and became the modern day alouettes, who have been lead to many finals by former las vegas posse QB, anthony calvillo
Attendance, las vegas averaged 8953 fans a game, and in one low, had under 3000, with 800 of those fans from the visiting team's city of winnipeg
2007-12-03 11:24:35 · answer #1 · answered by rocker199200 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What teams are left? Do you know something I don't? I never heard any talk of CFL teams folding since the Ottawa Renegades and the Glickmans.
Should the NFL venture into Canada and "play" football? Well, what else would they do--open a sports bar? Should they...well, to be honest, they shouldn't but it looks like the Bills will end up in Toronto.
What do the rules have to do with anything? It's not like the NFL would absorb the CFL and tell the teams to keep the same players and now play in the NFL. Also, half the players are American up here anyway. It's not like it'd be a stretch to relearn how they played in college.
Anyway, what exactly is it you want to ask?
2007-12-04 14:52:30 · answer #2 · answered by fugutastic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The CFL has always had either nine or eight teams in the league except for the failed expansion to the United States in the early 1990s in which the league had a maximum of thirteen teams. Currently the CFL has the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (Ti-Cats), Montreal Alouettes (Als), Toronto Argonauts (Argos), and Winnipeg Blue Bombers (Bombers) in the East Division and the BC Lions (no nickname), Calgary Stampeders (Stamps), Edmonton Eskimos (Esks), and Saskatchewan Roughriders (Riders) in the West Division. The Ottawa Renegades have been a suspended team since 2006 but expect to comeback in the near future.
2007-12-03 14:12:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, the NFL should not venture into Canada. Canada has an excellent professional football league (the CFL) which plays an exciting brand of football. There is no need to bring the NFL to Canada. The NFL product is not as exciting or entertaining. Please leave the NFL where it belongs. Why can Canadians not support Canadian products? Where did so many of us get the inferiority complex that in order to be good it has to be American. Keep the NFL out of Canada and let's support the excellent product that we already have!!!
2007-12-02 04:10:47 · answer #4 · answered by Jamie 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
No, the game is totally different, and the No Fun League would not be interested in any city besides Toronto, anyway, where people think they are the centre of the universe. Sorry, but I like the 3 down game, the larger ball, no free catch, etc.
Besides, there isn't a team in the NFL with a payroll smaller than the total payroll of the CFL. A community owned team in Winnipeg or Regina isn't going to get away with going to the taxpayer to help with a $40,000,000 payroll for a team that plays a foreign (to us) version of the game.
2007-12-01 21:32:27 · answer #5 · answered by Fred C 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I hear this question all the time, and I think the same thing: Toronto (the most likely place for an NFL expansion) hardly ever sells out a CFL game. How the hell are they ever going to sell out an NFL game? Maybe the first few times, but after that, I doubt it. Toronto only cares about the Leafs.
2007-12-02 16:07:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm American, but love watching the CFL. The CFL came to America for a couple years, but it didn't work. I think the same thing would happen if the NFL came to Canada. The Bills are the most likely team to go to Canada, in Toronto of course, but I think after a couple years, they will wish the hadn't if they do. You all can boycot them like we did to you, and I'm sure you all would rather watch CFL anyways, weather or not you have a NFL team.
2007-12-02 14:59:23 · answer #7 · answered by adurb 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
CFL consists of Toronto, Montreal, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Saskatchewan, Calgary, Edmonton and British Columbia.
Canadians do not want the NFL. They have their own league which is older than the NFL. There's only one city that the NFL would be interested in anyways and that's Toronto.
For the NFL to come to Canada they would have to get parliament's approval. The CFL is protected by a Canadian content rule and the NFL would have to get that waived. It's not going to happen.
2007-12-02 04:34:40 · answer #8 · answered by PuckDat 7 · 10⤊ 1⤋
Football players from the Pfl Prairie football league then the University football, then the player goes to the cfl finally to the nfl.
2007-12-04 07:09:02 · answer #9 · answered by sweet_blue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am one for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, as this team is such a fun team to watch and back. I have been a Roughriders fan since reading of the team - and their fans - in an essay in 1984, which described the team as the only major professional sports team in all of the province of Saskatchewan. The Roughriders have won three Grey Cup Championships, the latest coming in 2007, and I am looking forward to another fine Grey Cup win.
2016-04-07 02:58:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋