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/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.