Real Men play Canadian Football

Michael

Michael

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Well this weekend Canada will play the 91st Grey Cup emblematic of professional football superiority. Yes, 91 years of Grey Cup, what is the Super Bowl at now? 38 or so? Got some catching up to do.

Real men only need three chances to make 10 yards.

Real men play on a field 5 yards wider, 10 yards longer and with 20 yard deep end-zones so that passing is still very much a weapon inside the 5.

Real men do not force Referees to do the 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Faeries' because we do not have a touch-back rule. If the ball is kicked into the end-zone on anything other than a kick-off the receiving team must get the ball out of the end-zone or they will lose 1 point. In polite society that is called a rouge.

Real men do not have the opportunity to wave their hand up in the air effectively saying, "Please don't hit me, I just want to catch the ball." In the CFL you must give the receiver 5 yards to catch the ball and he must catch it. As soon as he touches the ball it is live.

Real men play with 12 players and the offense can have up to 4 men in motion prior to the snap.

Real men play defense 1 yard off the ball so they have to work harder to keep the goal line safe.

Real men play outdoors in Regina in Novemberrrrr. Latitiude is 50 26'N, Green Bay's 'frozen tundra' is only 44 29'N or about 6 degrees S or ~415 miles SOUTH of Regina, this year's Grey Cup city. Regina is expected to be -2C at game time which is unseasonably warm because last week it was a more seasonable -20C (-4F). Regina is 200,000 people but an additional 20,000 have arrived from around the world. People are having to stay 2 hours away so many Reginans have opened their doors to allow for 'Home Stay'. Let's see that happen in any Super Bowl city?

Oh, yeah our balls are bigger too. Just ask Doug Flutie, Jeff Garcia, Warren Moon, Joe Theisman to name a few with Grey Cup rings or Bud Grant, you might have heard of him too.

If you can find ESPN 2 (I think they are carrying it, if not find the CBC if you live near the 'longest undefended border in the world') on Sunday and watch the 91st Annual Grey Cup game from Regina. 18 of the last twenty years the game has not been decided until the last play of the game, the way a football championship should be decided.

The above definitely does not reflect the position of the owners of this BBS, they are merely the rantings of a deranged Canadian football fan.

Cheers.
 
So Michael, You like Canadian Football?

I have to admit, that it does sound like a rougher game, however, all of those guys that you mentioned just bided their time in Canada, with our GOOD friends to the north, until they could hook up with the NFL. It would be interesting to have a tournament between the grey cup winner, and the Super Bowl winner with it being a best of three series. One game in eacgh home town, and a deciding game in the town of the previous years winner, with home field rules.

So are you up for it?

Scott
 
Sure I am all for it. I played with Orlando in the World League and Toronto of the CFL. As a player I found the Canadian game to be more fun.

It is a pleasure to come to the other boards where I posted this and see that people took it for what it was intended, fun. One gentleman on another board chose to attack.

As to biding time; Moon, Theisman, Flutie and Garcia all had to get multiple Grey Cup rings before the NFL looked at them. If you check around the NFL you will find the so-called West Coast offense, which looks suspiciously like a regular CFL game, is often coached by men who learned it in the CFL.

Now I am torn because I like the Allouettes of Montreal but they beat my beloved BC Lions and Edmonton beat Saskatchewan in a hard fought game. Oh, well, sit back and enjoy the game is all I can do.

Cheers.
 
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Two friends living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan were sick of winter so they booked a vacation trip to Australia.

When the two got off the plane - still wearing down jackets, wool hats and snow shoes - they wondered into a pub and sat down.
The locals wondered about these strangers, so one of the Aussies walked over to the visitors and said "G'day, mates. Where're you from?"
"Saskatoon Saskatchewan," one of the Canadians replied.
"Oh," said the Aussie, returning to his table.
"So where are they from?" asked the other locals.
"Don't know," replied the Aussie. "They don't speak English."


I hope you didn't think this was an attack. By all means I was trying to have some fun with our Northern neighbor.

I like Canada - beautiful country from Toronto to the Canadian Rockies. Spent many winters working in Belleville. I also liked to watch Canadian football. Most of all, you folks have some great beer - Moosehead, Bradour, Lebatt, & Molson to name a few.

I do like Rugby and Australian rules football too (No pads or helmets ...Hmmm).
 
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