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=== Canadian Football ===
The professional Canadian Football League (CFL) and collegiate Canadian InteruniversityU SportSports play under the only slightly different Canadian rules. Though the CFL is [[Older Than They Think|considerably older than the NFL]] (with the CFL itself being etasblished in 1958), and its rules remain closer to those originally developed for gridiron football, there has been a substantial [[Adaptation Displacement]] making U.S.-style football far better known worldwide. Among the main differences are 12 men per side versus 11, 3 downs per series versus 4, a 110-yard long field with 20-yard end zones (Originallyoriginally 25 yards but shortened as a side effect ofin the American expansion experimentmid-1980s) versus 100/10, unlimited backfield players in motion, and the fact that any kick that goes into the end zone and isn't returned (including missed field goals) counts for one point (a "rouge"). These rules open up the passing game considerably and result in several otherwise unmemorable NFL players being able to do very well in the CFL, as well as the inverse. The leader for combined passing yards in all North American professional football leagues, Damon Allen, played exclusively in the CFL and quarterbacks like Doug Flutie and Jeff Garcia have done extremely well in the CFL despite average careers in the US <ref>Additionally, there is just one player that played with the CFL at some point in their career who is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Quarterback [[wikipedia:Warren Moon|Warren Moon]] (who after playing a couple very good years with the Edmonton Eskimos, went on to an outstanding NFL career)</ref>. CFL supporters in Canada tend to point to this as evidence of a more exciting game while NFL supporters point out that there is a significant difference in skill between the two leagues. At any rate, the NFL and CFL have always had a good relationship, and were more or less on equal footing until the 1980's, when broadcasting rights to NFL games became ridiculously lucrative.
The current roster of CFL teams consists of:
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