[TXMike]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

How is Canadian football not true football? Because we have 12 players instead of 11? Is it the bigger field that threatens your endurance? Different penalty application? A way to score 1 point?

Or these:

1. When have you watched Canadian football?
2. When have you played (competitive) Canadian football?
3. When have you officiated Canadian football?
4. When have you coached Canadian football?
5. And lastly, what would you do/say if your son said, "Dad, I want to play football, but the only scholarship I received was from the University of Western Ontario, a leading medical research university in the world?"

There are so many many people that disagree with you, it isn't funny. There is a large CFL-viewing public in the US, so much so that CFL games are carried in many markets.

Please though Mike, please define what "true football" is, and by who's definition this is, and how and why that definition came to be.

I think you're better off seeing all flavours of football for what it is, not what it isn't. So you're not a fan of the AFL, XFL or the CFL. Big deal. That fact and a quarter is worth a phone call.

Myself, I go to AFL games because they're fun. I watched the XFL because it was fun. I referee Canadian football because it is fun.

Read "Anatomy of a Game" and the mysteries of "real" football will be revealed to you.