- Because of the CFL's viciously low salary cap and the resulting annual shuffle of key players from Hamilton to Saskatchewan to Montreal over and over, fans get to pick a new favorite team every year, too. I will pick mine soon.
- Hearing "Argos pick up the rouge" is a reason to shout "WAAAAH-HOOOOOO!"
- Love the punt. There is no other game that has as much punting. Admit it and embrace it. The punt is the play of the future. Seeing teams give up the advantage of possessing the ball with the slim hope that the resulting advantage enjoyed by the other team is a net loss of relative advantage is pure excitement.
- What other national league has had a foreign champ? OK, the NHL and even MLB but besides those. Remember Baltimore.
- No more CBC broadcasts. No more framing the broadcast team around the "lunk and bookish guy" principle. No more of the profound basso of Steve Armitage booming out "Argos pick up the rouge!"
- No need to get all CFL in your liesure wear because no one sells it. I saw a guy at the Toronto Zoo the other week wear Argo gear and I assumed he worked for the team.
CFL Fever Gripping My Life
Posted by on Saturday, June 28, 2008 in - 9 comments
I hereby promise to watch CFL this season. You should too. We can spend a whole year CFL-esque, between now and when the snow flies freezing SEC-grad second stringers as Calgary plays BC in the western semi-final. Here are some of the things I note surrounding my renewed CFL interest:
Comments
sean liddle - June 28, 2008 9:33 am
I agree Alan. There is this huge gap after premiership soccer ends (after my team has yet again won...) in the summer where I have nothing to watch. I am a Pats fan but again, it starts in the Fall. I am without a CFL team to be a fan for though and I do not want to be one of those boring people like my dad who watched every single sport on television when he wasn't out golfing and running, with no specific team at all.
Ottawa would be an obvious choice but like you said, nOtttawa this year.
I dislike Toronto in all of its evil guises for the post part.
My Great grand parentage were from Quebec so Montreal is a possibility however we plan on retiring out west as in BC in a few years so it would be nice to have a team to follow and be able to say "been a fan for 10 years" etc etc..
And Calgary, well, its hard to support anything associated with oil money, regardless of how arms length it be.
hrmm.
I officially start watching now.
Temujin - June 28, 2008 12:13 pm
BC's starting quaterback is named Buck Pierce. Everytime he throws a touchdown, broadcasters will have a field day.
"He Pierced the Argos D with that throw!"
"That pass was worth a millions Bucks!"
Do you need any further reason?
Mike C - June 28, 2008 5:41 pm
I want to like it more than I do. I want to pick a team again, and I may yet. I would like to have a big Grey Cup party like my parents used to have; it was a big sporty, nationalistic, election-night/New Year's Eve bash.
I met qb Don Jonas once in my jammies! (And Howie Meeker another year - Dad's high school had a sport banquet and he hosted the after-party a number of years. So it was meet-the-special-guest and go to bed.)
Some times, though, I do have an urge to watch a CFL game; something comforting about it.
sean liddle - June 29, 2008 8:23 am
We had company over last night and I managed to squeeze in 2-4 minutes of watching the Edmonton game while they looked on. Made me feel all flag-ish and nationalistic... okay, maybe not, but it detracted form the boring conversation about 80s pop tunes for a moment.
I worked with one of the Shad brothers back in 86, does that count for anything?
Alan - June 29, 2008 10:00 am
"I want to like it more than I do."
Gold.
Hans - June 30, 2008 4:09 pm
I have been an Ottawa CFL fan for years. A team is supposed to come back in 2010. Even though I hate the CFL without Ottawa, I watch like the fool that I am, critiquing and loathing the other teams and scheming their demises especially the Edmonton Eskimos. I always hated the CBC coverage of the CFL, especially the "lunk and bookish guy" thing. The TSN coverage, camera angles, talkings heads, inteviews and analysis are miles better.
Douglas - July 1, 2008 9:12 am
Ticats! I live for the day when the CFL starts up a feeder league in Europe. The CFL in Europe!
Alan - July 1, 2008 10:21 am
The Darien Adventure of sports leagues.
Douglas - July 1, 2008 6:29 pm
With teams in Gdansk, Bratislava, Riga and Oulo.