CFL may be more popular in the US than the NHL
 

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The 92nd Grey Cup was played today and won by the Toronto Argonauts...
http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/news_story.asp?id=105482 ... and from what I'm hearing from the media, was shown in more places than ever before, including Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Contienntal Football League? Cool :)

Question,
Why do the BC Lions decide to go with the backup, and not start Casey Printers, the best athlete and most exciting player with amazing talent, and MVP of the CFL this year, in the biggest game?

In my opinion, Buono didn't want to make it seem like Dickenson lost his starting job because of injury.. even though Printers still started when Dickenson was healthy. He also wanted a more experienced guy there for the Grey Cup.. someone who's been there before.

If I were coach, I have no idea who I'd start.

Yeah, but he didn't use Printers at all. Printers give you a double threat. Printers was MVP (I believe), but atleast first-team CFL. I love the Grey CUP, lots of Hype (but not the NFL way-corporate style and all entertainment blastout-CFL is on the game), and the Novemeber "possible snow" weather.

I believe Printers was Most Outstanding Offensive Player. Of course now this will be brought up when they talk about B.C. not winning it. :)

I daresay i would probably get into the CFL if i ever knew when it was on, and who some of the players are. Now that the league has abandoned its 25% RoughRider mascot policy, i believe i can take it a bit more seriously. Wasnt Dickinson in the NFL either last year, or the year before, but he couldnt earn the job for the Chargers? I really wish this league would start around the end of the NFL season so we could truly have a spring football league worth watching.

Printers was injured last game and his shoulder was not 100% during practice, however he should have at least came off the bench.

Whats a good team to cheer for in the CFL. Besides Toronto. Who has a history of Excellence? Edmonton maybe?

Someone needs to start a CFL Fantasy Football league next season. I'd definately be down to play that. I'm guessing, tho, with only 9 teams, it would mean that you probably could only have like a 6 person league.

How does a league run with an odd number of teams. Do some teams get more bye weeks than others? Im looking on the site and it appears that the season takes place over 20 weeks, and each team plays 18 games. The schedule makes no sense to me from a logic standpoint. It would appear that there would need to be 20 "bye weeks" but if each of the 9 teams gets 2 weeks off a year, there are 2 weeks where no team would be off. Even tho somone has to be off

Maybe they just have the Roughriders play themselves and hope that everyone will still think there is more than one team with that nickname ;).

on weeks that everyone plays.... a team plays twice, like on tuesday and then again on Sunday...

That TV deal is doing wonders!

The best team to cheer for is the Blue Bombers! :D

I agree. :D

Montreal has had really good regular season success the past few years. Other than that, it seems like the other teams haven't been as consistent. The Blue Bombers should have done really well this year but didn't. :mad:

Eskimos have made the playoffs for 33 straight years...if that isn't consistent success, then I don't know what is.

Yeah, I GUESS that's consistent. I just don't like them so I didn't mention them. ;)

Plus, wasn't Moon an Eskimo?

:D

I believe so.... but.. but... Dunigan was a Blue Bomber. And umm.. Juran Bolden. And... Albert Johnson. The last two were in the NFL. Mike Sellers played for the Bombers for a couple of years recently. Not sure where he went after.

I'm not sure if a guy named Dieter Brock went to the NFL, but I was told he did.

There's this... CFL Fantasy Football?. Haven't really looked into it. Just saw it now.

We have a TV deal now? I missed that. Taco is doing great things for the league! :D

CFL is pretty cool for a number of reason: Its developement is about where the NFL was in the early to mid 60s. The field is 40% larger so that in itself creates more action, less 3yds and a cloud of dust. They still play outside in the elements (like being a kid and playing snow-football) and the players don't make so much that they can avoid getting jobs in the off-season. Hope they continue with more success.

Yeah, i saw that on the site. Next June, someone needs to set up the FOFC CFL Fantasy Football League.

WWhat channel was the Grey Cup on?

If the NHL had the rouge it would be a whole different story.

Don't forget about Fluite. A Calgary Stampeder in the 80's-early 90's, then played for Toronto until he became a NFLer with the Bills.

But Flutie was never a Blue Bomber, all the guys on MikeVic's list are ex-Bombers.

My miskate. Though he was talking about "big-name" players, got confused between that and Wareen Moon.

What's this "besides Toronto" crap, Steve?

The Argos are the oldest professional football team in the world. All the great players find their way here eventually -- Dunnigan, Flutie, Allen, you name them. Mike "Pinball" Clemons is perhaps the only person in all of sports that everyone likes. And once they get out of the SkyDome, they'll even have a real football stadium to play in.

Oh, they're also the champs. Thought I'd throw that one in.

I think I read something about a TV deal anyways.

There's a name I haven't heard in a while. Yeah, after Winnipeg, he played for the LA Rams.

Aw ... isn't that cute? Canadians and their football.

I'm all for pimping your sport, but let's do what the CFL has successfully done and keep the hype out of the CFL. More popular in the US than the NFL? You need to star cutting the bacon strips in half and cut back on the Labattes.

The Grey Cup earned about five column inches today in The Kansas City Star on page 2 of the sports section -- below much larger stories about Tiger Woods winning a tournament in Japan that wasn't on TV here and about Roger Federer winning the Masters Cup which no one one knows that is. The two main elements of the Grey Cup story were the fact that Damon Allen is Marcus Allen's brother and Michael "Pinball" Clemons was a scab for the Chiefs back in '87.

I visited the CFL's official Web site. I think the league needs to find some corporate sponsors to bring in more revenue. The need more advertising.

Wait a minute -- the game was only on Dish TV? Dear god. Even the indoor soccer finds its way on to cable every once in a while.

NHL, not NFL.

Maybe you need to cut back on Labatt's. It's NHL, not NFL. ;)

LOL... that was great... thanks MikeVic, for saving that post for posterity ;).

Thanks for the confirmation.

Well done kcchief.

Thanks, buddy! :) We are the real CFL!

Actually after Winnipeg he played for the Tiger-Cats (we traded him for Tom Clements, then both teams met in the '84 Grey Cup). He then left Hamilton to play a year for the Rams before retiring.

AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

I want to thank the United states for letting us have Pinball Clemons.....as classy as they get

The mid/late 80s was a great time to be a Bomber fan. Clements, Reeves, Murphy, Boyd, Tuttle, West, Ty Jones. Those were some exciting teams to watch.

I dont think your cheifs have ever earned that much space in the Toronto Star

James Murphy, Joe Paplawski, Chris Walby, Willard Reeves, James West, Rod Hill... There's a reason the Bombers were my favourite team back then. I remember hearing a story about Murphy opening up a seafood place after he retired; he seemed to be a genuinely nice guy and happy to have created a life after football in Winterpeg.

It's the Chefs, not the Cheifs:)

100% true. He has a fish market type thing at "The Forks" in downtown Winnipeg. Has some awards and pictures there too. :) I've never gone up to him and talked, but a friend talks to him sometimes and got his autograph.