CFL season cancelled

[bababoey]

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CFL season cancelled … For those that get their news out of Canada via dog sled express, the Canadian Football League cancelled its 2020 season after it failed to get financial support from the federal government. Unlike the NFL or the NHL, CFL teams don’t get rich from TV revenue and are very much dependent on gate receipts to survive. And there are no guarantees that the league will survive through to 2021, although it has been through some tough times before. Meanwhile, the Canadian college football season was cancelled weeks ago along with all fall sports.

For all of you waiting to see the Toronto Argonauts play this year I have some bad news.  Now none of it's players have to freeze their balls off for 50,000 a year.

[Jeremy Igo]

Maybe we can get Armanti Edwards back now!

[t96]

These smaller “semi-pro” type leagues rely a lot more on gate so this was to be expected.

[CanadianCat]

1 hour ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Maybe we can get Armanti Edwards back now!

ha! I saw him in person a while back.. he was a JAG up here. Made me sad.... 

[CanadianCat]

15 minutes ago, t96 said:

These smaller “semi-pro” type leagues rely a lot more on gate so this was to be expected.

yeah.. CFL might not recover from this which is really to bad. There are a lot of hardcore CFL fans up here that will argue that despite the talent gap, the CFL is a better game in general. Im not on that train but there are definitely things that the CFL does better than the NFL (video replays for one..) 

[4Corners]

Makes sense. Canada and their awesome leaders have handled this pandemic greatly from the start. USA could learn a thing or two from Our friends up North. 

[Riverboat Ron]

David Foucault and Linden Gaydosh come on down.

[1of10Charnatives]

22 hours ago, CanadianCat said:

yeah.. CFL might not recover from this which is really to bad. There are a lot of hardcore CFL fans up here that will argue that despite the talent gap, the CFL is a better game in general. Im not on that train but there are definitely things that the CFL does better than the NFL (video replays for one..) 

I have a longtime friend in Sasketchewan and have watched their team play in the Grey Cup a couple times over the internet with her. The wide receivers being able to get a running start towards the LOS before the play is one of the most obvious and striking differences. It's definitely an interesting change of pace but you can tell the talent level just isn't close to the same as NFL starters.

[Jeremy Igo]

20 hours ago, Riverboat Ron said:

David Foucault 

OH MY GOD. 

 

This name was erased from my memory until just this moment. 

[CanadianCat]

On 8/20/2020 at 7:34 AM, 1of10Charnatives said:

I have a longtime friend in Sasketchewan and have watched their team play in the Grey Cup a couple times over the internet with her. The wide receivers being able to get a running start towards the LOS before the play is one of the most obvious and striking differences. It's definitely an interesting change of pace but you can tell the talent level just isn't close to the same as NFL starters.

The talent gap is there for sure. Yet its also a different type of talent. 

Byt yet when Rickey Williams played in the CFL he was no good. Yet the following yet he went back tot he NFL and did ok.. so its just different..