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CFL Broadcast Rights in the USA

How 'bout the chopping of heads in Saskatchewan?

Not a surprise though. They are 1-7 and that fan base seems every bit as
intense as Steeler or Packer fans.
 
Guess it all became moot because the NFL is back. They only missed one pre-season game (the Hall of Fame game in Canton, OH) and we've been getting wall to wall, everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about the NFL, its 32 teams, its 1696 players, and other assorted minutiae, ever since, on CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and every radio station in all 50 states plus probably nearly all 10 provinces. (Don't know about NWT, Yukon and Nunavut, but they probably have their fans of 100-yard, 4 down, 11 on-the-field-men-to-a-side-at-one-time football as well.) So if you like the CFL, point your antenna north...
 
Not anymore here in Ohio and some border/near border states, Bob.

In fact, IIRC, there is no Canadian OTA coverage of the CFL...it's all on TSN/RDS now, no?

When CBC had the CFL, at least you could have a shot of watching, say, CBET/9 in Windsor. It's still on cable in parts of this region, as close to me as the Northern Ohio city of Sandusky (home of Cedar Point).
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
In fact, IIRC, there is no Canadian OTA coverage of the CFL...it's all on TSN/RDS now, no?
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You are correct; according to the CFL website, "TSN’s complete 84-game broadcast package is part of its exclusive multi-year deal with the CFL, which kicked off in 2008." However, RSN has the French-language broadcasting rights; according to the CFL website, they broadcast Alouettes games.
 
Agreed. The NFL Network has no incentive to carry these games one day beyond the start
of NFL training camps, making me wonder why the CFL brass thought this was a good deal.
 
CFL football is not a gentle as American football. It is also a faster moving game with that rough and tumble. I love CFL football.

Every time somebody mentions the CFL I remember how Mayor Kurt Schmoke, of Baltimore, brought in a CFL league, The Stallions, I believe, and then dumped them after they won the Grey Cup. He was pretty much the beginning of the end of Baltimore, but that is another matter for another day.
 
Silkie said:
CFL football is not a gentle as American football. It is also a faster moving game with that rough and tumble. I love CFL football.

Every time somebody mentions the CFL I remember how Mayor Kurt Schmoke, of Baltimore, brought in a CFL league, The Stallions, I believe, and then dumped them after they won the Grey Cup. He was pretty much the beginning of the end of Baltimore, but that is another matter for another day.
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That team started life as the Baltimore CFL Colts. But the NFL sued over the trademark of the name.
So they became just the "CFL's" for one season and then the Stallions after that. They were forced out when
the Cleveland Browns relocated to Baltimore and became the Ravens (1995 I think?). The Stallions then
moved to Montreal to become the "new" Alouettes.

I was not able to watch much CFL football in the era when they had US based teams.
I presume games down here were played on a 100 yard field?
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Silkie said:
CFL football is not a gentle as American football. It is also a faster moving game with that rough and tumble. I love CFL football.

Every time somebody mentions the CFL I remember how Mayor Kurt Schmoke, of Baltimore, brought in a CFL league, The Stallions, I believe, and then dumped them after they won the Grey Cup. He was pretty much the beginning of the end of Baltimore, but that is another matter for another day.
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That team started life as the Baltimore CFL Colts. But the NFL sued over the trademark of the name.
So they became just the "CFL's" for one season and then the Stallions after that. They were forced out when
the Cleveland Browns relocated to Baltimore and became the Ravens (1995 I think?). The Stallions then
moved to Montreal to become the "new" Alouettes.

I was not able to watch much CFL football in the era when they had US based teams.
I presume games down here were played on a 100 yard field?
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This era interests me....CFL musta been hard up, to get US teams in the mix.

I'd figure that CFL games w/ US teams had to use CFL rules, that being 110-yard field, wider sideline-to-sideline, and 25-yard end zones. Otherwise, any "records" would be tainted. But anyone can correct me here.

Didn't Shreveport La. have a team as well, during this era? Were these US-based teams expansion teams with great players (hence Baltimore's championship), were they moved from other cities, or were they good "farm" clubs?

cd
 
RDS, RSN...well, I get all the French networks confused in Canada, but I knew it wasn't on Radio-Canada. :D

The CFL also had a team in Sacramento, the Gold Miners. They eventually moved to San Antonio.

The games were indeed on a CFL regulation 110 yard field, in Hornet Stadium - the home field for the CSU Sacramento Hornets.
 
The Baltimore Stallions played at old Memorial Stadium. I don't think a 110 yard CFL field would have fit in that place.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
The Baltimore Stallions played at old Memorial Stadium. I don't think a 110 yard CFL field would have fit in that place.
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Don't know the measurements of that place, but if that's true that it was a 100 yd field, how could the CFL brass sleep at night, with fudged statistics and a questionable championship?

Gotta be a low point in the CFL's existence.

cd
 
If you start following links from that you find a news clipping where the owner held a press conference
announcing the Stallions name at "the Memorial Stadium 55 yard line". So they must have squeezed a
Canadian field in there somehow.
 
Also keep in mind the end zones are 20 yards deep, not 10....so you're lo0king at 150 yards total. Not to mentione the CFL field is wider.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
RDS, RSN...well, I get all the French networks confused in Canada, but I knew it wasn't on Radio-Canada. :D
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Actually, the mistake is mine - it is RDS. There is an RSN - Rogers SportsNet, but they don't have the CFL rights in any language. I was commenting on TSN's claim to have exclusive rights to the CFL, thinking they meant exclusive English-language rights. I didn't realize that TSN and RDS are same company - Bell Media.
 
Another "It's a Canadian Fact," courtesy SCTV:

"In Canadian Football, there are four downs, not three. Four, not three. They punt on 3rd down, just to be safe. Did you know that? It's a Canadian Fact!"

;)

cd
 
That's the Canadians for you: always playing it safe. :D

And a Happy Thanksgiving to all of the Canadian readers!
 
With a few Canadian TV shows now making inroads south of the border, you'd think the CFL would be a little more aggressive about capitalizing on the popularity of football in the U.S.? (To put a fine point on it--football on TV.)

The SEC, ACC, and Big East college conferences have syndicated college football telecasts, and I think many of these games are in HD. Why couldn't/wouldn't the CFL and TSN offer individual American stations and/or networks a live Sunday game or a condensed, two-hour replay of a Thursday/Friday game? Broadcast affiliates of NFL media partners would obviously be out, but that still leaves stations using The CW, MyNetworkTV, ThisTV, and programming services relegated to terrestrial subchannels.

It'd have to be financially friendly package to get stations/broadcasters to air games, but it doesn't seem that impossible to do.
 
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