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Making it into shitty NFL won't win any fans and will only alienate the fans you do have

Play calling sucks when collaros is in there too. Hogan doesn't get any benefit of the doubt. His offense stinks on a lot of levels.

I'm going to be pissed if we add more american rules such as 4 downs or american kicking rules.

well that didn't take long for OT to rear it's head

I’d suggest a streaming deal. Maybe YouTube. Won’t be rules cuz that’s a committee thing. Has to be something to grow the revenue. And rule changes don’t do that. could it be expansion or maybe I’m not sure it makes a difference but going to 1 division next year.

Article from earlier this year where commish says only Winnipeg and Saskatchewan made money last year. That isn’t sustainable as a business model so something has to change. https://globalnews.ca/news/11263497/cfl-commissioner-league-financial-struggles/amp/ This article seems to be around diversifying off TSN. But I wouldn’t call that big changes to the game.

Maybe your boy Streveler is a dumbass or can only run 5 plays consistently

A small part of me hopes for the return of the Las Vegas posse so we can get another oh Christmas tree Canadian anthem. Canadians aren’t going to Vegas right now so let’s bring a part of Canada to them.

same calls he made all night though. izr/main line option, followed by draw.

Young people watch on their phones but have to like sports and lots of young people don’t anymore. The zombie apocalypse ppl speak of is here and it’s ppl staring in to their phones he says while typing on his new iPhone he got 3 hours ago. People don’t become football fans. Your mom or dad are fans so you become one. Ppl don’t just become nfl fans either. It’s the same thing. 15 million viewers is great but USA has 300 million people. Significant amount don’t watch. And nfl viewing numbers have remained the same pretty much so it’s not like they are growing in the USA themselves. CFL should be proud to be the Canadian alternative to the nfl. We aren’t America so the cfl is pro here. Promote it as maybe being part of our Canadian heritage instead of becoming more Americanized which at the moment Canadians are avoiding the USA like the plague. Dumb move if going more American. That’s gonna backfire so much. Elbows up??

That would make sense, but tsn mails it in a lot with the cfl. Sponsorship, streaming and gambling etc doesn’t make sense with significant changes to the cfl game. nailed it. I think the UFL is far more likely. they are in bad shape and desperate. They could always go back, but it would be catastrophic.

Amusing. People who pump up Streveler can’t accept he’s terrible now and will blame everyone almost but him. It’s hogans fault Streveler sucks. Stupid hogan letting Streveler throw last week, stupid hogan not letting him throw. honestly. Just amusing. The talent isn’t there on O. Demski pokey Brady. That’s it. And Streveler can’t pass a ball. What game plan actually makes Streveler look good cuz there’s no preparing for 2 weeks here anymore. Dude threw 8 passes and completed 3 and had an interception and a bad one at that. Poor read. I mean what’s the game plan that turns Streveler into a QB. Cuz right now he’s a dude who made a career out of 5 6 throws 6 years ago and has done nothing since.

I agree with you. I think young people aren’t watching because it isn’t “the league” This doesn’t change that.

yep. might break 100 passing yards! yeah that’s the biggest fear for me. Realistically, I don’t think it can be field size changes. too many teams on bad turf as it is. Next to that, 4 downs would be criminal especially on our field. it’d be un watchable. True minor league agreement with the nfl? Nfl return and scoring rules? I’m worried but maybe it won’t be some thing awful like that. Could also be the previously rumoured ufl/xfl merger deal. Streaming and gambling crap doesn’t fit the sound of this.

Do we really think the number one reason young fans aren't watching in the worst markets is the rules, though? I think it's more "I don't look football, and I don't like football that isn't the NFL". Rule changes won't fix either of those.

You have to think if it was truly major changes then tsn carries the pc. Sportsnet might even. But nope. prob a big sponsorship deal? Maybe a deal with the nfl actually where each team gets a couple million bucks. No idea. Toronto has an agreement with buffalo. Us and Minnesota. I dunno. BC and Seattle. Buy 1 get one. Yeah. I dunno. Could be anything. Streaming deal makes sense since announced on their streaming service

he did call the plays that resulted in the time killing drive, right? He called the right plays and our guys executed them well. The system worked at a critical time. Ottawa has a habit of improbable comebacks but we stomped that possibility dead. I'm not saying there aren't giant hairy weeping warts on the O in this game but there does seem to be some small amount of credit owing there.

To be fair no one is actually saying NFL. But it is more around these changes are significant. League needs to change for revenue, too many teams losing money. Don’t know what else this could be, especially with the influence MLSE has now.

imagine the tariffs on imports tho. Don’t see that happening. If it was that significant tsn would carry it.

Alienating the diehards to turn the CFL into the football equivalent of the AHL would kill it within 5 years.

It's interesting because this guy was with TSN prior to this gig... And we know how loudly the TSN talking heads (Naylor in particular) were banging the drum for NFL rules.... So I'm wondering if Ambrosie was staving that off and then a TSN guy got into power and is going to lean full force into the CFL being an NFL feeder league.....

There’s a real chance salomonsson sees games with the big club this year.

They gonna eliminate the need for kickers and special teams so basically our O when Strev plays. 4 downs I think might get some major backlash and then in 3 days they will do another pc to announce significant changes. Seems odd tho cuz maybe 40 ppl will tune in Monday at 1 pm where the world is at work coming back from lunch. Dumb time.

There's been a significant lack of scarves in the league since Ambrosie left. New mandate requiring all coaches and executives to wear them at CFL events.

Reading through the CFL “insiders” on Twitter, sentiment seems to be to start preparing for NFL style rule changes.