I’m the same. Although I also follow golf.
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What do you mean by presented correctly? A billion dollar tv budget and marketing or rule changes or other or all of the above?
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I mean get rid of all the quirkiness. The quirkier it is, the more niche and limited it will be in growing the fanbase.
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Many need to listen to these words. It’s true and a horrible way to try to sell Your league to the masses. In particular younger fans.
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If we don’t use 4dn rules the league is a joke? If we do use 4dn rules we are just a second rate feeder league? It really is a joke if we give any weight to the opinions of those laughing at us.
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Agree with the spirit of what you’re saying except it’s not “we” who are using 3 down rules. It’s “they” the people in charge of the CFL and those whom decide what the rules are going to be. “We” are merely spectators and if “we” don’t like what the CFL is doing “we” can put our money in other places. And people aren’t laughing at “us” for the most part. There are exceptions to every rule.
This guy makes me laugh sometimes.
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This is an optics issue, but the same people who would laugh aren’t going to watch the CFL anyway, so I wouldn’t look to eliminate all quirkiness. Just the stuff that looks stupid but serves no actual purpose, like goalposts at the front of the end zone and the dumb rouge on punts that sail out of the end zone.
If you just bulldoze all the stuff that makes the CFL what it is, you lose uniqueness and truly just become a copy of the No-Fun League, which is hardly desirable. Then we’re just a feeder league with an immigration step.
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Sounds like we just have a different definition of quirkiness.
Most of us I figure would agree starting here, and then we could quibble from there?
He dances almost as well as Mr Orange
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There now is courtesy of Cold Weather Todd @GAK250 . Let’s put our hands together and thank him here in February too.
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Well the irony is that the changes for the 2026 will be the ones that are the least controversial, so all that hot air folks have let out of the balloon between the old place and here is only the start before the next off-season begins after the 2026 Grey Cup.
I am still of the frame of mind that based on what actually plays out in 2026, the league will tweak the changes made and the proposed changes, but that’s early speculation now well before speculation after the evidence of the 2026 season is at hand for review.
Meanwhile the CFL needs to get a new media deal done for the US, and such a deal should also include easy and common exposure on FAST channels and on some streaming platform, but NOT an exclusive on the latter! Shoot if they go with CBS and Paramount+, I’ll sign up again no doubt.
At least the league has increased its exposure on YouTube, despite consistently shitty capabilities over the years for which they are still looking for somebody to help:
@disciplineandpunish @GridironGirl and others from the old place might be able to pull back the curtain all the more there than they have already.
Whatever was still of value for the sake of social media engineering beyond the old forum was otherwise burned to a crisp before we could loot and recover it in the old Mod Barn, but it’s not like we were going to try anyway in light of other good and valuable consideration and fine salvaged booty.
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Like a compromise 105-yard field?
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what they have now with the last 3 minutes is silly. The rest of the game they have 35 seconds to get the ball into play. It should be the same 35 seconds and the compromise should have been that the game clock doesn’t start until the 20 second mark (in my opinion).
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Oh no you don’t. They have THESE changes right. Keep the last three minutes the same as the status quo, for it’s GREAT! The clock rules for the last three minutes have NEVER been broken!
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Yes agreed. That is a compromise that would effectively be 3 clocks to run the game but could be aesthetically made into 2 clocks by holding the game clock until there are 20 seconds or less on the play clock when the end of the previous play dictates clock runoff is permitted prior to the snap.
That’s a mouthful. The game should have a simpler timing and pacing solution. My hope is that the average number of plays run in the “normal” 35 second automatic play clock regime will demonstrate that the clock stoppages in the final 3 minutes are unnecessary. They will have to do this if the total actual game run-time starts to exceed 3 hours. We can then time the games with a simple and consistent standard for the whole 60 minutes.
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The compromise is that they should have laid down the law with the refs for the other 57 minutes and not changed the clock rules.
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That wouldn’t have furthered the agenda to Americanize the game though. 
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Oh no you don’t! They’re not consulting with the referees, just like they did not consult with any fans either! Bwah ha ha ha ha!
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