Shower thought: Canadian Football League should use NFL rules, field

[Rock Strongo]

NFL doesn't have a proper "minor league". I think it'd be beneficial to NFL hopefuls to have a place to play and showcase their talents for NFL teams. With injuries and roster turnover, this could be useful to both parties.

the CFL prides itself on a different brand of football. remember the movie kingpin?

Ishmael: Wh-wh-wh-what do you expect? I mean, you guys with your 10 frames.

Roy: [angrily] What do you mean, "you guys with your 10 frames"?

Ishmael: Well, my grandpa always taught me to bowl 15 frames. It's like I told you before, we Amish, we do everything half again as hard as you do. Ten frames.

[scoffs]

the CFL prides itself on 3 down football.

 

[dkmightyhammer]

NFL doesn't have a proper "minor league". I think it'd be beneficial to NFL hopefuls to have a place to play and showcase their talents for NFL teams. With injuries and roster turnover, this could be useful to both parties.

It would be next to impossible to use the CFL for a training league or minor league of the NFL because of the very first rule of the league. CFL teams are required to use Canadians.

CFL rosters are 44 players. By rule 21 MUST be Canadian. So the NFL would be pretty limited in how many players they could send to the CFL as "minor league" players.

 

[dkmightyhammer]

This is a CFL sized field. I think it's at a university. It gives the best view of the differences As you can see the playing surface is significantly wider, it's 110 yards long and the end zones are much deeper than the NFL end zones. All of which supports the wide open passing game that the CFL is. Note the two 50 yard lines

Can you imagine how much fun a passing QB like Rodgers, Ryan, or Brady could have on a field that size? There would be so much open space for the WR's they'd be impossible to defend. Plus the endzones are big enough to land a 747.

 

[Center Ice]

Can you imagine how much fun a passing QB like Rodgers, Ryan, or Brady could have on a field that size? There would be so much open space for the WR's they'd be impossible to defend. Plus the endzones are big enough to land a 747.

That would be cool. CFL games are generally high scoring games with lots of excitement. Just because one team had a 2 touchdown lead with 2 minutes to go doesn't mean they're going to win. It's nerve racking to the final whistle.

 

[PatsFan2003]

NFL doesn't have a proper "minor league". I think it'd be beneficial to NFL hopefuls to have a place to play and showcase their talents for NFL teams. With injuries and roster turnover, this could be useful to both parties.

I thought that's what college football is for.

 

[Rex Racer]

NFL doesn't have a proper "minor league".

Sure it does, it's called "college Football" and the quality of play sucks in comparison to the the pros just like all the other minor leagues.

 

[Rex Racer]

This is a CFL sized field. I think it's at a university. It gives the best view of the differences As you can see the playing surface is significantly wider, it's 110 yards long and the end zones are much deeper than the NFL end zones. All of which supports the wide open passing game that the CFL is. Note the two 50 yard lines

I always got a kick out of the extra 10 yards between the two 50 yard markers. Reminds me of the DMZ in Korea. This is your side, this over here is our side and this space in between is no man's land.

 

[Rex Racer]

Can you imagine how much fun a passing QB like Rodgers, Ryan, or Brady could have on a field that size? There would be so much open space for the WR's they'd be impossible to defend. Plus the endzones are big enough to land a 747.

Warren Moon was a pretty prolific passer up in Canadia

 

[jarntt]

You and I so think of different things in the shower

 

[Center Ice]

I always got a kick out of the extra 10 yards between the two 50 yard markers. Reminds me of the DMZ in Korea. This is your side, this over here is our side and this space in between is no man's land.

And when you get seats on the 50 yard line somebody always asks, "who's 50 yard line"?

 

[dkmightyhammer]

Warren Moon was a pretty prolific passer up in Canadia

Moon's the reason I'm a huge NFL fan today and a Seahawk fan. Too bad he spent 5 of his prime years playing in Edmonton. He would have moved way up in the NFL all time passing stats if he played his entire career in the US.

 

[Sgt Brutus]

Sure it does, it's called "college Football" and the quality of play sucks in comparison to the the pros just like all the other minor leagues.

false equivalent

 

[DJ]

I agree. The NBA and MLB have minor leagues, not sure why the NFL doesn't.

 

[Rock Strongo]

 

[Eco]

Shower thought sounded better than sitting on the pooper. A lot of thinking gets done on both.

Shower thoughts, shitter thoughts....both sound legit to me.

 

[Rex Racer]

Moon's the reason I'm a huge NFL fan today and a Seahawk fan. Too bad he spent 5 of his prime years playing in Edmonton. He would have moved way up in the NFL all time passing stats if he played his entire career in the US.

Tough to say whether he would have been as prolific in the NFL right out of college as he was in the CFL, but he did come home and light it up.

 

[dkmightyhammer]

Tough to say whether he would have been as prolific in the NFL right out of college as he was in the CFL, but he did come home and light it up.

Moon blamed it on racism of the time. He says no teams wanted a black QB in the 70's. He's probably right about that. He did get offers to play in the NFL but I think coaches always wanted to turn him into a TE and Moon flat out refused to give up being a QB. You're right that its tough to predict what kind of numbers he would have put up in the NFL straight out of college but I don't think he's HOF for nothing. He probably would have been at least decent and he likely would have over 10000 more career yards passing added to his NFL totals. That's only 2000 yards per year so I think that's realistic. That would put him right between Elway and Marino at 6th on the all time list. Not that it matters, it's just interesting.

 

[Rex Racer]

Moon blamed it on racism of the time. He says no teams wanted a black QB in the 70's. He's probably right about that. He did get offers to play in the NFL but I think coaches always wanted to turn him into a TE and Moon flat out refused to give up being a QB. You're right that its tough to predict what kind of numbers he would have put up in the NFL straight out of college but I don't think he's HOF for nothing. He probably would have been at least decent and he likely would have over 10000 more career yards passing added to his NFL totals. That's only 2000 yards per year so I think that's realistic. That would put him right between Elway and Marino at 6th on the all time list. Not that it matters, it's just interesting.

I'm not buying the racism excuse. His college stats were uninspiring to say the least and he went undrafted. I think that going to the CFL and continuing to develop was real good for him.