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Not likely.

Instead, they'll admit the CFL is a far more challenging league than the NFL. :P :P :P

Actually, I think they have a few strengths - albeit ones not at all interesting to tech:

Yahoo Sports - Say what you will, but their coverage of almost every sport known to man is impressive. Their coverage of hockey & the CFL is fantastic and I love their soccer & college football coverage as well.

Flickr - Like it or not, it's still an amazing site to browse and utilize for photos (still the best site on the planet for porn IMHO). They also allow you to license your photos in almost any manner of copyright you wish, including creative commons.

Really, it's not always about the tech.

My football has only three downs you insensitive clod!

Actually, the blog 55 Yard Line has an excellent article on whether or not more coaches should go for it on third down based on yards to go for a first down and the line of scrimmage.

Try the Canadian version. I enjoy a lot more than the American version, unfortunately the season just ended on the weekend.

http://www.cfl.ca/

I stand corrected: it is indeed 110 yards, which is 100.584 meters. As others have said, it is ten yards in three downs.

I stand corrected: it is indeed 110 yards, which is 100.584 meters. As others have said, it is ten yards in three downs.

A CFL field is 110 yards between the goal lines, and each endzone is 25 yards deep if I recall correctly. http://www.cfl.ca/
Rules are listed at that site anyway.

Way to be ambiguous Sumitter. Don't you know that Slashdot standard sizes only come in "Libraries of Congress" for data, and "VW Bugs" for things that come from, or go up into space?

Our balls are bigger*. Now our telescopes are too :-)

*Actual official CFL t-shirt slogan.

You sure about that? I heard that the "Canadans" have their own version of football as well. In fact, it's closer to "Usan" football than to "Europal" football.

The other should be called American Handoval or something equally silly.... It has nothing to do with football....

True, but we Yanks aren't the only ones with a game called "football" that involves oval-shaped objects thrown around by hand. Those two flavors do have some differences.

(And why didn't they go metric?)

(And why didn't they go metric?)

What about Canadian Football?

The point of copyright is that monopoly in expression creates diversity in expression.

NFL doesn't have a monopoly on football, just on its team nicknames and logos. Imagine the possibilities if NFL licenses exclusively to one developer and NFL Players Inc licenses exclusively to another: you'd get situations like the early 1990s where one company's game would have real players and fake team logos, while the other had fake players and real team logos. So we have one NFL game, one NFL Players Inc game, one CFL game, and one of the other kind of football.

There are what, 8 teams? How long can a season take?

Why do you imply ruling out repeat matches in a season? There are thirty teams in the National Basketball Association, and a season takes over 80 games. There are thirty teams in Major League Baseball, and a season takes over 160 games. There are nine teams in the Canadian Football League, and its regular season is 20 weeks long.

There are what, 8 teams? How long can a season take?

Why do you imply ruling out repeat matches in a season? There are thirty teams in the National Basketball Association, and a season takes over 80 games. There are thirty teams in Major League Baseball, and a season takes over 160 games. There are nine teams in the Canadian Football League, and its regular season is 20 weeks long.

Article 1: Regulation Fields
The field shall be 110 yards long by 65 yards wide. it shall be distinctly marked as indicated herein.
...
Vertical posts (goal posts) shall be placed and centred on each goal line. The distance between the posts shall be 18 feet 6 inches. The goal posts shall extend 40 feet above ground level and shall be joined by a crossbar parallel to the ground at a height of 10 feet. The diameter of each post above the crossbar shall be not less than 3 inches or greater than 4 inches. At the extreme top of each post there shall be attached a coloured ribbon 4 inches wide and 42 inches long. A wishbone type or single shaft goal post assembly may be used provided that it complies with the above standards, and the base of the assembly is not further than 75 inches from the goal line.

Football seemed reasonably popular (though not as much as Hockey, of course) when I lived in Calgary. This may be a regional thing, of course, but some Canadians do follow CFL football.

Apparently, even in Canada's biggest market, Canadians aren't any more sophisticated than Americans.

For example, a number of years back, the local CFL franchise Toronto Argonauts were having a great season, averaging 39 points a game! On offense, not total game score! Come September, the run to the playoffs is on, and they draw something like 20000 fans to a game, maybe less, I don't recall. That same weekend, an NFL pre-season exhibition game also in Toronto drew 55000 people! Buloads of Torontonians regular travel down to Buffalo Bills games.

Toronto doesn't dislike Canadian music on it's merits, only because it's not American.

Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

What Happens When a Linux Geek Takes Over a Canadian Football Team ?

* Bob Young, founder of Red Hat and Lulu.com buys Canadian football team the Hamilton Ticats.
* Ticats playbook submitted to SourceForge for development. Fans of the Canadian Football League are invited to submit revisions.
* Initially puzzled by open source strategy, other CFL teams begin using the plays.
* Ticats adopt open-channel Wi-Fi for communications between coaches and quarterbacks using new helmet developed under the GPL, known as the GNU-Helmet. Xs and Os on playbook diagrams are replaced with 1s and 0s. Fans begin to show up at games with laptops to IM the assistant coaches.
* Ticats playbook becomes bestseller .
* First season is devoted to eliminating bugs. Bob Young called an eccentric, fringe player. Headline screams "Playbook Bazaar -- Bizarre!"
* Innovation in CFL play explodes. Stadiums host record crowds. US newspapers run stories, but most assume that the sport in question is actually soccer.
* Bill Gates surprises press by purchasing Seattle Seahawks.
* In the third season, CFL continues to gain momentum. Young brokers a revolutionary agreement with the Australian Football League incorporating new rules and tactics. Games become more interesting. Cable channel TechTV signs contract to air every CFL game. US viewers begin to abandon NFL games in droves.
* NFL sues, claiming a process patent on option plays
* Clear-Channel takes over 90% of US stadiums and inks 10-year contract with NFL. Fans are routinely strip-searched for illicit food and drink items as they enter stadiums.
* Gates responds to decrease in attendance at games by inking broadcast deal with all four networks to air games simultaneously.
* Canada announces increase in immigration. MIT Beavers win Division Championship.
* Electronic Arts announces that "Madden NFL 2007" will be open source. Furor erupts. New version quickly surfaces in which characters can be forced to play soccer.
* NYT article notes that enrollment in youth football programs across North America are up, as are demands for reinforced padding and elastic straps for eyeglasses. 'Football is all about brains!" bellow coaches.
* 2010 - Ticats win Grey Cup for the first time in decades. Average size of defensive lineman is 5'7", 155 lbs.

Actually, some could argue its the americans who have basterdized our great sport of football. According to the clf's history section, The first football game was played in 1861 at the University of Toronto. Unless you can provide proof that the americans were playing football before then, I'm declaring that football is Canadian (like basketball and hockey).

(note to the europeans, what north americans call football is different then you, we call it soccer here).

The Canadian dollar once worth about USD$0.92 is now down only worth USD$0.64 (source: http://www.xe.com/).

And this is bad because?????

Having a weaker dollar makes our goods cheaper for Americans, and American goods more expensive to ous. Canada has a multi-billion dollar trade surplus. The result: though the american economy is in bad shape, Canada's economy is showing little signs of a slowdown.

Furthermore, it's not the Canadian dollar which has lost value, but rather the American dollar that has gained value. Versus currencies from the rest of the world, the Canadian dollar has been holding its own.

Canada can't get into space without hitching a ride on a more advanced nation's ship.

We've been sending satelites into space for years, including the first ever communications statelite. With manned missions, we decided to partner with the US, though they seem to be taking most of the credit for themselves. In the end though it doesn't matter as there's no point in duplicating efforts, and that is the point of the ISS.