Former Bombers in NFL (and spring leagues) news

[Jets]

Even if the CFL goes full stupid mode and Americanized everything (4 downs, essentially the same field & rules), it doesn’t make a lot of sense to make any sort of agreement or merger with the UFL.  If the CFL is in dire straits financially there’s no logic in merging with another failing league and adding 8 more struggling/bankrupt franchises to the mess. 
 

Im much more inclined to think switching to the American game is a feeble attempt at aligning with the NFL and making the CFL into some sort of “NFL Canada” setup akin to NFLEurope of old.  Basically you play NFL rules on NFL fields in Canada, but the NFL farms out dozens of practice squad players to Canadian teams as a development league, while keeping a handful of Canadian players on each roster (probably a lot less with less stipulations on playing them though). 
 

In return I could see the NFL propping up the CFL financially and maybe even expanding to Toronto and/or BC, leaving the remaining teams as a NFLCanada, the farm system. 

[Bigblue204]

6 hours ago, Jets said:

Even if the CFL goes full stupid mode and Americanized everything (4 downs, essentially the same field & rules), it doesn’t make a lot of sense to make any sort of agreement or merger with the UFL.  If the CFL is in dire straits financially there’s no logic in merging with another failing league and adding 8 more struggling/bankrupt franchises to the mess. 
 

Im much more inclined to think switching to the American game is a feeble attempt at aligning with the NFL and making the CFL into some sort of “NFL Canada” setup akin to NFLEurope of old.  Basically you play NFL rules on NFL fields in Canada, but the NFL farms out dozens of practice squad players to Canadian teams as a development league, while keeping a handful of Canadian players on each roster (probably a lot less with less stipulations on playing them though). 
 

In return I could see the NFL propping up the CFL financially and maybe even expanding to Toronto and/or BC, leaving the remaining teams as a NFLCanada, the farm system. 

Ufl is different. The franchises aren't necessarily broke. As they're all owned by the league or something like that. The TV deal they have with fox could be huge for the CFL.other than that, there's nothing though.

[Goalie]

UFL is like an updated XFL. Owned by a dude and his ex wife and a tv station. It’s all about ratings and gate I’d assume. They doing ok in a few markets (st Louis would put 40k for the cfl ) but obviously not so well in 3 they just moved to smaller venues like oh I dunno the size of BMO or MCGill or Hamilton Stadium. 

Any news on Elgersma. Lol

Edited 4 hours ago by Goalie