Introduction Canadian Football is usually seen as the less attractive sibling in North American football as America’s NFL trumps the national game in Canada mainly due the financial power of the league and its teams. However there is vast appeal of CFL, most notably as the game is played at a faster pace compared to the NFL with a shorter play clock (20 seconds as opposed to 40), meaning double the excitement in that time. Each game as four quarters of 15 minutes each meaning the games last 1 hour in total (3 hours overall if commercial breaks are included). It is also worth noting if you don’t know much about Canadian Football that each team has an extra man compared to American Football, 12 instead of 11. Furthermore the pitches are bigger and wider (150-yards in length, incl. 20-yard endzones and 65 yards wide) meaning the Linemen need to be more pacey in order to close down the opposing teams offense. Additionally players in the CFL tend to be quicker and lighter than in the NFL as well as being smaller as the America football teams cut them from the roster after deeming them an inappropriate size. Brief League & teams overview So that’s just a bit of background information on Canadian Football and the CFL highlighting the main rules. Now to look at the teams where there are currently nine, with the latest (Ottawa Redblacks) being formed in 2010 after a number of failed franchises in Ottawa. The nine teams are split into two conferences, Eastern and Western meaning five are in one while the remaining four are in the other, although all the teams do play each other home and away with the season being 20 weeks, starting in June and finishing in November. The five teams in Western division consists off, BC Lions, Calgary Stampeders, Edmonton Eskimos, Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers, while in the Western division there is Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Montreal Alouettes, Ottawa Redblacks and Toronto Argonauts. All the teams compete for the prestigious Grey Cup which is one of the oldest sporting trophies in the World having begun in 1902, although the professional competition (CFL) began in 1958. The teams Edmonton Eskimos Founded: 1949 Division: Western Colours: Green/Gold Stadium: Commonwealth stadium (56,302) No. of Grey Cups: 13 Most recent: 2005 Montreal Alouettes Founded: 1946 Division: Eastern Colours: Red/Blue/ Silver/White Stadium: Percival Molson Memorial Stadium (25,012) No. of Grey Cups: 7 Most recent: 2010 Saskatchewan Roughriders Founded: 1910 Division: Western Colours: Green/White/Black Stadium: Mosaic Stadium (33,427) No. of Grey Cups: 4 Most recent: 2013
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