by SSReporters, Stupid Sideline Reporters
I know if you're like me, NBA season is over, the NHL season is over, the Olympics is a month away, and then you have the MLB......blech, not much going on.
Well with the help of Youtube, I've got a little surprise for you. It's the Canadian Football League! It's never had a lockout, they've been around for over 100 years, and, get this, you can celebrate touchdowns!
Here are some important things to note about the CFL:
- 2 preseason games, usually a home and away against one team.
- You have 3 downs, not 4, to get 10 yards.
- The goalposts are still at the front of the end zone.
- The end zones are about 20 yards deep.
- The field is 110 yards from the front of one end zone to the other.
- Conceding safeties is quite common when you're backed up.
- Any punt, field goal (has to be a missed one), or kickoff that reaches the end zone and isn't advanced means it's a single, or 1 point.
- It's 12 on 12, not 11 on 11.
- An NFL kicker has a higher salary then most CFLers.
- Because there are 8 teams, every game is on national TV.
Rod Black and Duane Forde are the commentators.
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2 comment(s):
Also, don't forget that the offense can have up to 3 men in motion prior to the snap.
Great stuff... I missed most of that game (and Hamilton's Jesse Lumsden running through the Toronto Argonauts for 189 yards in the first game of the network doubleheader) since I was at a Tragically Hip concert, but that was the excitement of the CFL right there.
The league's been a bit dominated by the defences over the past couple years, but games like that make you hope it's going to get back to the days of wide-open football.
A couple more of the rules differences:
-- The field is 65 yards wide, not 53 1/3
-- There's only 20 seconds between plays, not 40 (the timing rules are slightly different from the NFL, so teams still get the same 50-60 plays from scrimmage per game)
-- The neutral zone is larger I(one yard instead of the length of the football)
-- A fumble out of bounds goes to the team that had the last touch, not last possession
-- One foot in bounds on sideline catches
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