DId you know the CFL is the older league when it comes to football?weird huh? (sources: wikipedia, and some side notes I made)Cfl 1st grey cup- 1909NFL 1st superbowl- 1967The first Canadian football teams played under the auspices of the Canadian Rugby Football Union (CRFU), founded in 1884The NFL was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (it adopted the name National Football League in 1922). In the days when sports teams were financed almost entirely by ticket sales; the CFL and NFL were, financially speaking, on relatively equal footing, and the CFL could sign top U.S. college football stars such as Johnny Rodgers and Joe Theismann. In fact, during the 1950s and 1960s exhibition games were played between CFL and NFL/AFL teams using a mixture of rules. The last such exhibition game saw the CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat the AFL's Buffalo Bills, the only time in which a Canadian team defeated an American team in those series.As late as the 1970s and early 1980s when high-capacity stadiums were built in Montreal, Edmonton and Vancouver and Toronto's stadiums were expanded, people such as Montreal Alouettes owner Nelson Skalbania continued to believe that relative parity could be sustained so long as the CFL could get larger stadiums built in its other cities and sell them out. However, by the 1980s it became clear that financial parity between the two leagues was not going to be maintained - not so much because of the disparity in attendance figures as due to the NFL's increasingly lucrative television contracts that now bring in a majority of the NFL's revenue. The CFL could not hope to negotiate similar contracts with Canadian networks because the U.S. television market is nearly ten times the size of Canada's.The CFL currently limits each team to 20 "imports," (I.e. players who have received training in gridiron football outside of Canada). In practice, nearly all of the CFL's "imports" are from the United States. [3]Although the difference in average salaries is currently great, with only a handful of CFL players making above the NFL minimum, the differences in the rules between the two leagues means that different kinds of players tend to excel at each game. The result of this is that to a significant extent the leagues are not in competition for the same kinds of players. This has been evident in the 2006 season which has seen Ricky Williams struggle on the field despite the fact he was a star running back for the Miami Dolphins before being signed by Toronto after he received a drug-related suspension by the NFL. [4]
THe NFL didnt start when the SupwerBowl started. Correct me if Im wrong, but I think the winner of the NFL played the winner of the AFL for the championship before that. The NFL has been around probably since the 20's or 30's Im guessing. CFL has still been around longer though, I guess.
^I dont think anyone is questioning that. Ive never watched more than 10 minutes of a CFL game in my life.
umm.. who cares about the CFL? even most canadians prefer the nfl. the only guy I know that ever went to the cfl was that badass runningback for nebraska afew years back, bbc he got banned from the nfl for cocaine.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (nba dogmatist @ Nov 20 2006, 09:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>umm.. who cares about the CFL? even most canadians prefer the nfl. the only guy I know that ever went to the cfl was that badass runningback for nebraska afew years back, bbc he got banned from the nfl for cocaine.</div>lol Dahrran Diedrick. I sorta remember him, not all that great.Ricky Williams is there too, Toronto Argonauts.Ironically, Diedrick has a degree in Criminal Justice.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CB4AllStar @ Nov 20 2006, 11:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>^I dont think anyone is questioning that. Ive never watched more than 10 minutes of a CFL game in my life.</div>heh, I jus watched argos vs alouettes and that was the only game I've watched....cfl's pretty sh*t, I love the nfl....the most cfl fans are from saskatchewan and winnipeg, mostly northern canada because they don't have any other teams...but even some of them prefer the nfl.... bigger cities like toronto support american leagues
I have to see the highlights when I watch SportsCenter though. There are alot of sreally good passes, but that's only because the defense sucks ass in the CFL. BTW Dogma, there are alot more Americans in the CFL, than Canadians. All the guys who couldnt make it into the NFL go to the CFL, or Arena League, or other sh*t.
The CFL has been around longer but it's Canada and it's pretty much all the NFL rejects. So what if it's been around longer? The NFL has a bigger market, better talent, and overall a better game.
yeah , RapFan just pointed its been around longer, not that it's better...wich is really obvious that it's not.I wich there was a toronto NFL team, but I love the chargers because I was born in SD
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (WELCOMEtotheJUNGLE @ Nov 22 2006, 03:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The CFL has been around longer but it's Canada and it's pretty much all the NFL rejects. So what if it's been around longer? The NFL has a bigger market, better talent, and overall a better game.</div> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Youre acting like you need to defend the NFL. Everyone already knows that the NFL is much better.</div>I agree with CB4, we know its an american game, and we all know people like the NFL better, but because of people like you, and the american media, no1 knew that CFL is the older league.
