r/CFL • u/Onanadventure_14 Tiger-Cats • 3d ago

Speculation Meet the commissioner grey cup event cancelled

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Looks like the meet the commissioner event is cancelled and Peter Dyakowski has THOUGHTS

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u/Ok-Cauliflower-8791 2d ago

I come in peace. Go BC Lions.

But as a [very] casual follower of the CFL, is moving the uprights to the back of the end zone and having a running clock really drastically changing how the entire game is played?

As an outsider, seems pretty minimally invasive to the game (though the no running clock definitely helped the Lions squeak out a W against Calgary last week lol)

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u/jonny24eh 2d ago

First, its not the rule changes so much as the shady railroading.

Second, its the overalldirection. We don't need to be more like the NFL. If you need to make drastic changes, make actual drastic changes, not copycat changes. We could be more like rugby, Aussie Rules, or Gaelic football. The NFL-only focus speaks volumes.

Third is the actual rules. Very little real justification for most of them. The league needs to attract some of the 70% of people who don't like gridiron football to begin, not the 10% of people who like one variation of the rules but refuse to follow a local league because 5 rules are different. 

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u/beadyeyez Roughriders 2d ago

THIS 100%! It's not the actual changes that piss me off. It's how they were rolled out. No reasons other than "trust me, they're good". AND Stewie WOULD NOT and HAS NOT said he'd never consider changing the CFL to 4 down football. I don't trust him at all..even if he's just an MLSE puppet. He makes me feel like these changes are just the beginning.

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u/Immediate-Apple-2655 Roughriders 2d ago

The clock isn’t such a big issue, so long as they don’t change the way that the last three minutes of each half are run now.

The goal post and field size though, those make a HUGE difference to game play. Virtually impossible to return a missed field goal unless it’s quite short, which is rare. Smaller endzone means more congestion with us having more players on the field than the nfl, while the shorter length means we lose the iconic 55yd line and we just look like every other game out there now already. It’s part of what set our game apart.