NFL or CFL Football?

The NFL has the smaller field, plays eleven per side with four downs and has a 40 second clock. Differences aside both games are basically football, played on the gridiron and both have their own excitement.

The big debate is whether or not the NFL has more talented players then the CFL. In a general rule thumb that is true since the NFL has more players it would only be obvious that the talent pool would be greater. However, there are many talented players who play in the Canadian game that would not make it in the NFL game and vice versa. The CFL usually goes for the smaller player who has lots of speed and a bigger focus on offence and the NFL player usually has the bigger player which has more of a focus on defence.

Setting that rule aside for the moment though, there have been many a player who had great careers in the CFL who made it big in the NFL. Players such as Warren Moon, Joe Thiesman, Doug Flutie just to name a few. So why do some Canadians look at the CFL as inferior? Well image perception for one. The NFL is known world wide, the super bowl is the highest rated and most bet on championship in the world. The NFL promotes its star players while the CFL is in a small market, tucked up in Canada and basically away from the American limelight. The CFL is well promoted by the local media in Canada, but it's still considered a second tier league to the NFL. The game CFL game itself though has been stated to be a far superior game then the NFL went it comes to the excitement level of the game. Longer, Wider and Faster is how the league promoted itself on its ill fated attempt to expand in the United States some 15 years ago. And in truth the CFL is a faster game and can be more exciting then the NFL game. But when it comes to pure marketing power the CFL is at the bottom of the barrel. Myself, I prefer the Canadian game over the American game, not that I don't like the American game. I just prefer a good old offensive battle with high scoring then a defensive struggle and a low scoring game which tends to be the trend in the NFL. Which ever game you prefer, we up here in Canada must realize that if the NFL does come to town, it could spell the end of the CFL as Canadians know it.