The CFL has the speed and excitement....but I think it's obvious the NFL has the greater talent pool. Anyone have any feelings on the topic? (There isn't a "Sports" catagory, so I hope it's ok to post this in "Pop Culture.")
The CFL has the speed and excitement....but I think it's obvious the NFL has the greater talent pool.
Which may be true and if so it begs the question, "Why doesn't the NFL have speed and excitement?"
The only answer I have come up with so far is "Because it isn't the CFL."
Our game rocks.
John
RevMatt
Posted on: 11/13/2006 12:01
CFL! CFL! CFL! CFL!
I want my team back. :(
sighsnootles
Posted on: 11/13/2006 16:21
as a longtime fan of the saskatchewan roughriders, i have to say that the cfl is my game of choice.
and how glad i am that the toronto argonauts LOST TOO......
the green and white in '07, baby!!!!
strongspirit32
Posted on: 11/13/2006 17:48
Cool! A sports discussion!
It's all about the CFL. Ever see a Superbowl game in the last 20 years that was a buzzer beater? But the Grey Cup always has some wonderful twists and turns.
The NFL is all about American marketing and culture and an imperialist view of sport: bigger is better, the salaries are huge and Doug Flutie always gets the run around.
Come on! We have a bigger field and we only need 3 downs. I ask you, which league has the players with more skill? Ya gotta throw before you run. And when you run, you got more room. It's more exciting!
I know we have a reputation as a farm league. But I never heard that being said about the CFL until a few years ago. We still rock!
Jonas
Posted on: 11/13/2006 18:10
God Bless our League!!
GordW
Posted on: 11/13/2006 18:23
ANd of course, as an ad campaign pointed out a few years back, we have bigger balls! :)
Personally I have never watched the NFL so really can't comment, besides I am still busy mourning the fact that the 'Riders got so thourouhgly beaten yesterday -- and by BC! Oh well, at least they beat the Stamps.
captainpony
Posted on: 11/13/2006 19:37
Softball has bigger balls but baseball is more fun to watch.
Thank you for mentioning talent. The fact is that if players in the CFL were better then they would play in the NFL.
You can't even say that the CFL is the minor league for the NFL because that would be NCAA football.
Unfortunately I can't go and watch NFL games so I limited to watching and cheering for the Green and Gold.
revjohn
Posted on: 11/14/2006 07:30
CaptainPony,
Hi,
You wrote,
"Thank you for mentioning talent. The fact is that if players in the CFL were better then they would play in the NFL."
Doug Flutie
Warren Moon
Joe Theisman
Deiter Brock
Vince Ferragamo
All ours first and went on to very respectable careers in the NFL. That Vince Ferragamo was a disaster for the Allouettes probably doesn't mean a thing
The real knock against the CFL is not talent. It is size.
Half their ball carriers pick up two yards just falling over.
John
loughtog
Posted on: 11/16/2006 22:34
Case and point: Ricky Williams. Why didn't he dominate this season? He was one of the best in the NFL. Accoring to you, captainpony, the CFL pales in comparaison to the NFL. If that was the case, Williams should have dominated.
The game isn't easier of harder, just different.
tiebos
Posted on: 12/06/2006 01:11
If I want to see touchdowns, I will watch the NFL. If I want to see GREAT touchdowns, I will watch the CFL.
I don't even think I need to explain that because it makes perfect sense to me. However, since I am the only one who ever understands what I say, I will explain:
4 downs - take it easy; enjoy life; ham it up for the camera; move it along at a slower pace because quite frankly, the NFL gives American players 4 chances to achieve what Canadian players only need 3 to do... And who can't occasionally move 10 yards with 4 chances so why put much effort into it?
In the CFL, we only have 3 downs because quite frankly, the latter part of the season gets COLD and we would like to finish both being the player and the spectator in the stadium before the gaslines in our snowmobiles freeze up. However else would we manage to get home??
So the CFL gets it done and if it takes some wicked foot work and an awesome arm on occasion, the touchdowns don't escape us in our measly three downs.
'Nuff said?
crazypunk77
Posted on: 01/05/2007 13:53
I am canadian but I find the NFL alot more exciting and more fun to watch. GO PHILADELPHIA EAGLES!!!
CarrieRules_123
Posted on: 02/28/2007 23:35
the cfl has more action than the nfl because the nfl spends WAY to much time fighting so all you get to see is people beating other people up instead of touchdowns and field goals!!
GO CFL!!
Atheisto
Posted on: 03/01/2007 14:20
CFL=NFL = large men wearing pads.
Rugby = real men...no pads....more action, less ad breaks....no paying a gazillion dollars for one guy who's only job is to kick the ball perhaps 5 times a game. No useless statistics, no drawing silly lines on the field, no airhead cheerleaders.
Go All Blacks (England are terrible...Canada aren't quite there yet).
You may now hang, draw and quarter me.
And don't even get me started on baseball.
CarrieRules_123
Posted on: 03/03/2007 14:44
football is WAY BETTER THAN RUGBY!!!!
lastpointe
Posted on: 03/07/2007 18:20
One season the Argos practiced at a field across from my kids school. Way exciting.
They were so nice, SOOOO big. Kids had a blast. Of course they totall wrecked the grass, it all had to be replaced.
CFL, !!!!
Remember all those grey cups in the snow/fog. Now those are real men, too bad they can't wear touques too
and is anyone cuter than Pinball Clemons. And he is a great Christian speaker too. Had him at church one time.
cjms
Posted on: 03/08/2007 11:35
Well as the Dallas Cowboys don't play in the CFL, I'd have to stick with the NFL. Yes; I do prefer the NFL game as well.
Cathi
SteepleFiddler
Posted on: 04/25/2007 23:38
I live in Canada; I grew up on the CFL; It's an enjoyable, relatively cheap afternoon or night out (and since my spouse likes the game as well, it's a cheap date - or I am ...). I can watch an NFL game on TV, but I rarely get "in to it" in the same way. Once, while living in Vancouver, I almost drove to Seattle just to see Doug Flutie play for the New England Patriots, but couldn't make the time - the next year he was in the CFL and I was thrilled to see him play several times over the years including one Grey Cup game (1997: sorry Green Riders).
But my best reason for loving the CFL is that it promted my son to ask when he was 8, "Can kids play football too?" Three years later now, he loves it, has learned so much about dedication, teamwork and the axiom that "effort leads to results". I have great hope that those lessons will serve him well in the coming teen years that he is excited about and, about which, dad is worried sick.
Thanks CFL !
YOUCANDOIT
Posted on: 04/26/2007 15:16
When Flutie was in the league it was CFL for me. Lately it's been the NFL.
nabi
Posted on: 04/26/2007 17:47
i think it's harder to throw great touchdowns when the endzone is 1/3 the size of CFL's. there are more strategies involved in putting the ball through the air when you have less space. when it happens, there's more athleticism involved.
NFL has a better running game, and this is where, once again, strategy takes control. it requires the synchronized efforts of many players to clear the way for the RB, and it requires a great RB with a ton of athleticism to run through a gap no wider than a foot sometimes. that's why there are four downs. it always amazes me when i watch it slowmo how every offensive player knows exactly where the RB is going to go; most of the time. you can tell a broken play right away, and it only takes one player who didn't knwo what was happening to mess up a play.
running game is much more one-on-one. if you can beat the slot or corner and the QB can detect you, you get the ball. a RB can rarely outrun ten defenders without his teamamtes pitching in to block. that's teamwork.
Ashley18
Posted on: 05/06/2007 15:42
Go CFL!!!!! I am passionately loyal to my team, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers! I don't care what anyone says, we rock! As for the NFL, every time I watch one of their games I'm constantly distracted by the out of this world neon green of their fields. It's insane! How can they play on that stuff?
Comments
revjohn
Posted on: 11/13/2006 08:22
Yaleo,
Hi,
You wrote,
The CFL has the speed and excitement....but I think it's obvious the NFL has the greater talent pool.
Which may be true and if so it begs the question, "Why doesn't the NFL have speed and excitement?"
The only answer I have come up with so far is "Because it isn't the CFL."
Our game rocks.
John
RevMatt
Posted on: 11/13/2006 12:01
CFL! CFL! CFL! CFL!
I want my team back. :(
sighsnootles
Posted on: 11/13/2006 16:21
as a longtime fan of the saskatchewan roughriders, i have to say that the cfl is my game of choice.
and how glad i am that the toronto argonauts LOST TOO......
the green and white in '07, baby!!!!
strongspirit32
Posted on: 11/13/2006 17:48
Cool! A sports discussion!
It's all about the CFL. Ever see a Superbowl game in the last 20 years that was a buzzer beater? But the Grey Cup always has some wonderful twists and turns.
The NFL is all about American marketing and culture and an imperialist view of sport: bigger is better, the salaries are huge and Doug Flutie always gets the run around.
Come on! We have a bigger field and we only need 3 downs. I ask you, which league has the players with more skill? Ya gotta throw before you run. And when you run, you got more room. It's more exciting!
I know we have a reputation as a farm league. But I never heard that being said about the CFL until a few years ago. We still rock!
Jonas
Posted on: 11/13/2006 18:10
God Bless our League!!
GordW
Posted on: 11/13/2006 18:23
ANd of course, as an ad campaign pointed out a few years back, we have bigger balls! :)
Personally I have never watched the NFL so really can't comment, besides I am still busy mourning the fact that the 'Riders got so thourouhgly beaten yesterday -- and by BC! Oh well, at least they beat the Stamps.
captainpony
Posted on: 11/13/2006 19:37
Softball has bigger balls but baseball is more fun to watch.
Thank you for mentioning talent. The fact is that if players in the CFL were better then they would play in the NFL.
You can't even say that the CFL is the minor league for the NFL because that would be NCAA football.
Unfortunately I can't go and watch NFL games so I limited to watching and cheering for the Green and Gold.
revjohn
Posted on: 11/14/2006 07:30
CaptainPony,
Hi,
You wrote,
"Thank you for mentioning talent. The fact is that if players in the CFL were better then they would play in the NFL."
Doug Flutie
Warren Moon
Joe Theisman
Deiter Brock
Vince Ferragamo
All ours first and went on to very respectable careers in the NFL. That Vince Ferragamo was a disaster for the Allouettes probably doesn't mean a thing
The real knock against the CFL is not talent. It is size.
Half their ball carriers pick up two yards just falling over.
John
loughtog
Posted on: 11/16/2006 22:34
Case and point: Ricky Williams. Why didn't he dominate this season? He was one of the best in the NFL. Accoring to you, captainpony, the CFL pales in comparaison to the NFL. If that was the case, Williams should have dominated.
The game isn't easier of harder, just different.
tiebos
Posted on: 12/06/2006 01:11
If I want to see touchdowns, I will watch the NFL. If I want to see GREAT touchdowns, I will watch the CFL.
I don't even think I need to explain that because it makes perfect sense to me. However, since I am the only one who ever understands what I say, I will explain:
4 downs - take it easy; enjoy life; ham it up for the camera; move it along at a slower pace because quite frankly, the NFL gives American players 4 chances to achieve what Canadian players only need 3 to do... And who can't occasionally move 10 yards with 4 chances so why put much effort into it?
In the CFL, we only have 3 downs because quite frankly, the latter part of the season gets COLD and we would like to finish both being the player and the spectator in the stadium before the gaslines in our snowmobiles freeze up. However else would we manage to get home??
So the CFL gets it done and if it takes some wicked foot work and an awesome arm on occasion, the touchdowns don't escape us in our measly three downs.
'Nuff said?
crazypunk77
Posted on: 01/05/2007 13:53
I am canadian but I find the NFL alot more exciting and more fun to watch. GO PHILADELPHIA EAGLES!!!
CarrieRules_123
Posted on: 02/28/2007 23:35
the cfl has more action than the nfl because the nfl spends WAY to much time fighting so all you get to see is people beating other people up instead of touchdowns and field goals!!
GO CFL!!
Atheisto
Posted on: 03/01/2007 14:20
CFL=NFL = large men wearing pads.
Rugby = real men...no pads....more action, less ad breaks....no paying a gazillion dollars for one guy who's only job is to kick the ball perhaps 5 times a game. No useless statistics, no drawing silly lines on the field, no airhead cheerleaders.
Go All Blacks (England are terrible...Canada aren't quite there yet).
You may now hang, draw and quarter me.
And don't even get me started on baseball.
CarrieRules_123
Posted on: 03/03/2007 14:44
football is WAY BETTER THAN RUGBY!!!!
lastpointe
Posted on: 03/07/2007 18:20
One season the Argos practiced at a field across from my kids school. Way exciting.
They were so nice, SOOOO big. Kids had a blast. Of course they totall wrecked the grass, it all had to be replaced.
CFL, !!!!
Remember all those grey cups in the snow/fog. Now those are real men, too bad they can't wear touques too
and is anyone cuter than Pinball Clemons. And he is a great Christian speaker too. Had him at church one time.
cjms
Posted on: 03/08/2007 11:35
Well as the Dallas Cowboys don't play in the CFL, I'd have to stick with the NFL. Yes; I do prefer the NFL game as well.
Cathi
SteepleFiddler
Posted on: 04/25/2007 23:38
I live in Canada; I grew up on the CFL; It's an enjoyable, relatively cheap afternoon or night out (and since my spouse likes the game as well, it's a cheap date - or I am ...). I can watch an NFL game on TV, but I rarely get "in to it" in the same way. Once, while living in Vancouver, I almost drove to Seattle just to see Doug Flutie play for the New England Patriots, but couldn't make the time - the next year he was in the CFL and I was thrilled to see him play several times over the years including one Grey Cup game (1997: sorry Green Riders).
But my best reason for loving the CFL is that it promted my son to ask when he was 8, "Can kids play football too?" Three years later now, he loves it, has learned so much about dedication, teamwork and the axiom that "effort leads to results". I have great hope that those lessons will serve him well in the coming teen years that he is excited about and, about which, dad is worried sick.
Thanks CFL !
YOUCANDOIT
Posted on: 04/26/2007 15:16
When Flutie was in the league it was CFL for me. Lately it's been the NFL.
nabi
Posted on: 04/26/2007 17:47
i think it's harder to throw great touchdowns when the endzone is 1/3 the size of CFL's. there are more strategies involved in putting the ball through the air when you have less space. when it happens, there's more athleticism involved.
NFL has a better running game, and this is where, once again, strategy takes control. it requires the synchronized efforts of many players to clear the way for the RB, and it requires a great RB with a ton of athleticism to run through a gap no wider than a foot sometimes. that's why there are four downs. it always amazes me when i watch it slowmo how every offensive player knows exactly where the RB is going to go; most of the time. you can tell a broken play right away, and it only takes one player who didn't knwo what was happening to mess up a play.
running game is much more one-on-one. if you can beat the slot or corner and the QB can detect you, you get the ball. a RB can rarely outrun ten defenders without his teamamtes pitching in to block. that's teamwork.
Ashley18
Posted on: 05/06/2007 15:42
Go CFL!!!!! I am passionately loyal to my team, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers! I don't care what anyone says, we rock! As for the NFL, every time I watch one of their games I'm constantly distracted by the out of this world neon green of their fields. It's insane! How can they play on that stuff?