Warning!! Danger!! Annual Off-topic Baseball Thread '07!! Beware!!

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

I haven't heard of any issues within the Canadian Football League.

Who would notice if there was?

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

I haven't heard of any issues within the Canadian Football League.

You mean besides playing a guy who was dumped from the NFL for a whole season due to his pot use?

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Who would notice if there was?

Now I know that the CFL games do have US viewership. Maybe you get the CFL sports reports too.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Now I know that the CFL games do have US viewership. Maybe you get the CFL sports reports too.

I do have to admit that CFL games are more fun to watch than NFL games, with the big field and everybody running around.

I have the same thoughts on the NFL field as I do on the NBA court. I honestly think that today's players have outgrown both, and both sports would be wise to enlarge their playing areas. And you can add the older small hockey arenas to that too.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

You mean besides playing a guy who was dumped from the NFL for a whole season due to his pot use?

Everybody deserves a second chance.

Then the dumb guy went 'n messed up again, IIRC.

Also, IIRC, he didn't meet Mary Jane north of the border.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

I do have to admit that CFL games are more fun to watch than NFL games, with the big field and everybody running around.

I have the same thoughts on the NFL field as I do on the NBA court. I honestly think that today's players have outgrown both, and both sports would be wise to enlarge their playing areas. And you can add the older small hockey arenas to that too.

Very much agree!

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

I do have to admit that CFL games are more fun to watch than NFL games, with the big field and everybody running around.

Yeah, it's a bigger field, but they put 2 extra guys out there. If the CFL went 11 players per side and played 4 downs, instead of 3, I'd watch all I could get. The 3 downs just kills it for me.

But I love the single point for not returning a kick out of the end zone and I love the extra large end zones. We get one game a week on Fox Sports Net around here. Defending Grey Cup champs BC Lions are out to a 4-0 start.

Whatever happened to the Las Vegas Posse, Shreveport Pirates, and the Sacramento Gold Miners, anyway?

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

I do have to admit that CFL games are more fun to watch than NFL games

Yabut, Australian Rules Football is more fun than either of them!

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

I haven't heard of any issues within the Canadian Football League.

Didn't that one guy get suspended for having unnatural relations with a moose while eating steroidal back bacon, eh? I think his name was Dudley Dowrong.

[ChuckElias]

I don't want to be the cause of too many threads going off-topic (this one is enough, probably). So let me just say here, in reference to the cell phone number crack by Dan in the FBI thread. . .

Shut up!

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

I don't want to be the cause of too many threads going off-topic (this one is enough, probably). So let me just say here, in reference to the cell phone number crack by Dan in the FBI thread. . .

Shut up!

Ah good. So you admit you weren't sitting down then?

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

I don't want to be the cause of too many threads going off-topic (this one is enough, probably). So let me just say here, in reference to the cell phone number crack by Dan in the FBI thread. . .

Shut up!

Why to stick up for yourself there Chuck!!

I just wanted to be the 700th post.

Doh!!!

Peace

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Yeah, it's a bigger field, but they put 2 extra guys out there. If the CFL went 11 players per side and played 4 downs, instead of 3, I'd watch all I could get. The 3 downs just kills it for me.

But I love the single point for not returning a kick out of the end zone and I love the extra large end zones. We get one game a week on Fox Sports Net around here. Defending Grey Cup champs BC Lions are out to a 4-0 start.

Whatever happened to the Las Vegas Posse, Shreveport Pirates, and the Sacramento Gold Miners, anyway?

In 1993, the league admitted its first United States franchise, the Sacramento Gold Miners, in an attempt to broaden Canadian football's popular appeal and boost league revenues. The ultimate plan was to have a league of ten Canadian and ten American teams. Spearheading the efforts were two former World League of American Football owners, Fred Anderson and Larry J. Benson, who would each receive a franchise. While the first incarnation of Benson's team, the San Antonio Texans, did not play a single down, the Gold Miners did and finished the season 6-12, placing last in the West Division. The following year, the league added three more franchises: the Las Vegas Posse, the Shreveport Pirates, and the Baltimore CFL Colts (who were forced to change their name to the Stallions after a long legal battle). Baltimore was the most successful of the American CFL teams, finishing second in the East and becoming the first American team to play for (and win) the Grey Cup.

CFL USA logo


The 1995 saw the loss of the Posse and the move of the Gold Miners to San Antonio, while the Birmingham Barracudas and Memphis Mad Dogs were added. However, fan interest in Canadian football, with the possible exception of the Baltimore Stallions, was sparse at best. At the end of the year, which saw the Stallions become the first American team to win the Grey Cup, all United States teams with the exception of the Stallions and the re-launched San Antonio Texans folded because of financial difficulties. When the National Football League announced that a new team was to be added in Baltimore, the Stallions looked at the possibility of relocating to nearby Richmond, Virginia, but later moved to Montreal, becoming the Alouettes. The Texans would later fold with a similar explanation.


I believe NFL (on sabbatical) Referee # 52 Bill Vinovich officiating in the CFL when it expanded to the US.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Why to stick up for yourself there Chuck!!

I just wanted to be the 700th post.

Doh!!!

Peace

Yea, 700th post, but no mention of those White Sox or Cardinals...

[M&M Guy]

Ok, I'm tryin' to get this thread (loosely) back on-topic, but I hate to do it this way. I noticed there was no mention of the minor-league coach that was killed when he was struck in the head by a foul ball. Now there's a sad report today out of Michigan of a 6th-grade girl that died after being hit in the head with a batted ball while practicing with her softball team.

I'm kinda surprised we don't hear about this more often, especially with all the bats and balls flying into the stands while people are chugging their beers and munching on their nachos. It's one thing with a player or coach; it's their job to pay attention. But most fans spend quite a bit of time talking, eating, sleeping, burping, scratching; everything but paying close attention 100% of the time.

I know I don't want to go early, but if I have to, I'd prefer it was while I was watching or playing baseball, or refereeing basketball.