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Originally Posted by esquire
Me neither. If Americans had the same mindset that we do, Auburn and Alabama would play football in front of 1,000 parents and girlfriends while the people of Tuscaloosa would stay home and watch the Seahawks vs. Bengals or whatever.
I think all of our Canadian CFL haters should start a public service campaign to inform all those NCAA fans that they're wasting their time watching "second rate football"  |
The CFL is not second rate it is just different. NCAA Ball compared to the NFL is like a cupcake to a full cake, its just a tiny piece of the bigger thing.
My beef with the CFL is that it has always been a sloppy game. Its sloppy because they don't commit the same time and resources as the NFL does into preparation and practice. If they did they would fix that glaring deficits almost overnight, so hopefully in time with new money into the league teams can invest more in the field level aspects of the game.
NCAA is more polished but its basic mickey mouse ball. Your watching a game with like 5 set plays and a bunch of kids just gun-slinging it. You get great athletic match-ups which sets the game apart at times but that's about it.
Many might not agree with it but its just my observation from a fan and a player of both. CFL game is better to play as you get more space to run around and hunt heads, but from a product on a pro level the lack of prep is obvious when you get so many "Big plays" which 90% of the time are due to simple mess up on assignments that would never happen in the NFL. Does that mean its a lesser game, no but it just shows that more prep and detail is needed towards prep for the game. Even during the GC I had to cringe and a few instances when both teams just did dumb sloppy stuff.
The NFL isn't immune to its own problems. The fetish for everybody on the field to be 6 foot 5 and 240lbs is clogging up the small field. Teams can't get any room to run decent plays and the play is starting to get bogged down. First and shorts in the NFL are hard to watch, your looking at landfill of bodies with no room to get anything going. Only teams with a solid slot game or a solid RB can make it work unless by luck something opens up for the QB in those situations.
This can all change though. If this money starts rolling in you can invest in better personnel on the assistant level and dedicate more time to more key specializations for each position like in the NFL.
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Originally Posted by elly63
It is strange how some "Canadians" go out of their way to denigrate homegrown product. What's really strange is how many Americans watch the game on ESPN 2, obviously they see something that the NFL fanboys in Canada do not. The high ratings are somewhat shocking (to me). And it's not a fad like Australian rules football was for a while years ago.
And speaking of ratings, just listening to PTS and they speculated what will happen to the Raptors with the new hockey deal. Raptor ratings are infinitesimal now what will happen when they go head to head nightly with hockey. Raptor ratings are another dirty little secret brought to you courtesy MLSE. Sorry, meant to say hidden from you by MLSE.
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The Raptors have always been given a short hand. They have always been dumped to the lesser networks that nobody has and thus it cripples its viewership.
Next, the Raptors are a "local" team with pockets of viability in places across Canada. Basketball draws flies all together though in Canada and its not just the Raptors that have issues in that regard. Most Ball gets low ratings here in Canada, and Basketball has more "casual" fans then the rest of the sports. Basketball is always cool but its not cool to watch crappy teams.
Plus there is also a distinction in how basketball fans consume games. Many more stream online then compared to Hockey or Football since its availability is so sporadic and sparse.
Rogers can't be a total dick when it comes to the Raptors since they own half of them. Hockey conflicts will result but you can already see that possibly Friday nights and Sunday mornings will become Raptor nights since those will be open from National Hockey coverage.
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