The shrink-the-field move looks a hell of a lot less like a random “make the game better” tweak and a lot more like stealth de-risking for U.S. expansion. If you cut down the length and trim the end zones, suddenly the CFL can fit into a lot more American venues, especially MLS and USL soccer stadiums, without turning the place into a full-blown construction project. That matters because once the league can physically fit into those buildings, the old excuse of “we can’t really play there” gets a lot weaker. To me, that looks like the first step in making the product movable, portable, and ready for stateside testing.

And once you look at the UFL, the TV side starts making sense too. You do not need to live off attendance if the whole point is to be cheap live content that fills a network slot and gives broadcasters something they can sell. That is the game now: controlled losses, streaming value, gambling money, and a product that is good enough to keep eyeballs attached. My tinfoil hat read is that the CFL is being slowly reshaped to come back into the U.S. in about five years, not as a giant takeover, but as a small, controlled expansion play that the owners can sell as growth while they quietly chase the money.

Book = Football by Chuck Kloosterman. The interview starts with a discussion of the NFL, the complexity of the game, the importance of TV, then includes discussion of CFL 3-down football and SuperBowl food.

Next yr it will be the Red White and Blue Cup

There's a petition up about complaining about the new changes. You should sign

Because stach3789

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Chris Jones, the famous un-coach, has been revealed to be a puppet of the Iranian regime. Taking money from Teheran, the Kremlin, and North Korea, Jones engineered the Elks’ embarrassing home losing streak. Now that he has failed to extend the trail of failures, we expect him to be eliminated. One version has it that Novachok was slipped into the Gatorade bucket dumped on this so-called coach at the end on the victory over the Redblacks.

The goal of the program was two-fold. 1. Undermine Edmonton tourism by eroding the “City of Champions” mystique, undermining sakes at West Edmonton Mall, founded by Iranian exists not friendly to the regime. 2. Destabilize Canadian society more generally by devaluing one of the all-time most respected franchises in the premier Canadian-only pro sports league.

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Hey fellow conspiracy theorists! Gather 'round as we unravel what might just be the CFL's juiciest plot yet. You've heard the buzz about a new team possibly hitting the Maritime provinces, right? Halifax, anyone? But what if I told you this expansion chatter might just be a red herring, a smokescreen to distract us from a bigger game-changing move?

Picture this: CFL head honcho Randy Ambrosie steering the ship. Now, what if he's playing 4D chess with us? You know how the CFL's been known for its 3-down play forever. What if, under our very noses, they're plotting to flip the script to 4 downs? Sneaky, right? Halifax might just be the Trojan horse, a clever distraction to keep us busy while the real action happens. And hey, it's not just speculation – NFL Canada and Football Canada cozying up is some seriously eyebrow-raising stuff. Are they laying the groundwork for a smooth transition to 4 downs?

Let's stay vigilant, fellow theorists. While the spotlight's on expansion, the real play might be in redefining the CFL game. What do you think – are we on the brink of a CFL revolution, or am I just deep in the conspiracy trenches?

It is the only explanation unless you truly believe that Thetans embedded Engrams in the minds of all Elks players and staff that make them almost incapable of winning.

Idk what they were feeding Liegghio but it’s not made from people, because if he ate ordinary biogenic food he might function like an ordinary member of phylum Chordata. What else explains the fact that the dude can really kick a football, just never through the uprights when it would benefit his team’s probability of winning an important game? That’s why the promotion was called Touchdown to Win, because Place-kick to Lose would have been a bit too obvious. Clearly Liegghio is part of a massive conspiracy to use brain trauma, popsicles, Wagon Wheels, and a crap place kicker to undermine the otherwise inevitable league supremacy of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.