On 8/28/05, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Canadian football. > It's similar, but different, nonetheless. > Thanks for looking >
One more player on the field, considerably larger field, one less down (meaning you only get 3 chances to move the ball 10 yards, rather than 4 in Amercan football). All that, plus the players annual salaries are measured in tens of thousands of dollars, not millions as in the US. Still, a fun game to watch; highly entertaining. It was even better when we had two teams in the CFL (Canadian Football League) named the Roughriders: The Ottawa Roughriders and the Saskatchewan Roughriders (the green team in Bill's pix). But, the Ottawa team folded several years ago, and although there's a new team there now, they chose a different moniker. It was always fun trying to explain a "Roughriders vs. Roughriders" game to foreigners <vbg>. -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
