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https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2026/06/10/alouettes-beat-the-rough-riders-1-0-in-lowest-scoring-game-in-cfl-history/ · 10 Jun 2026
Most football fans like a lot of scoring. You really can’t beat seeing two teams going back and forth and lighting up the scoreboard. Of course, a good defensive matchup can still make for some entertaining football now and then. But back in 1966, a game...
https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2026/05/22/cfl-preseason-there-must-be-a-better-way-for-fans-sake-1985/ · 22 May 2026
The 2026 CFL preseason is underway with a full slate of games this weekend. I'm always happy to have football back - even if the games don't really matter much to us fans. It's safe to say that the coaches and players themselves get way more out of these m...
https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2026/03/26/the-cfls-early-websites/ · 26 Mar 2026
At high school in the mid 1990s we were asked to use a new technology called the "World Wide Web” for a research project. Yours truly balked and wanted to stick with the tried-and-true volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica. I told my friend that I would giv...
https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2026/03/05/cfl-ends-u-s-expansion-retreats-back-to-canada/ · 5 Mar 2026
On Friday February 2, 1996, the Canadian Football League officially ended its American expansion efforts. During the CFL’s annual winter meetings, the league announced that the Birmingham Barracudas, Memphis Mad Dogs, San Antonio Texans, and Shreveport P...
https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2026/01/21/winnipeg-leads-opposition-to-cfl-american-expansion/ · 21 Jan 2026
When the Canadian Football League rolled out American expansion in the early 1990s, support for the idea was far from unanimous. Yes, proponents argued that U.S. expansion was the way forward to grow the league and to help stabilize the struggling Canadian...
https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2026/01/07/the-cfl-expands-to-the-usa/ · 7 Jan 2026
When I first started following CFL football in the early 1990s, two issues dominated the league: struggling Canadian franchises and U.S. expansion. They kind of went hand in hand, the idea being that an injection of American money and new markets would hel...
https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2025/10/15/100-yard-fields-in-early-canadian-football/ · 15 Oct 2025
When CFL Commissioner Stewart Johnston announced sweeping rule changes to the Canadian game last month, one modification that probably alarmed traditionalists the most was the change to the size of the CFL football field. In 2027, the field will shrink fro...
https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2025/10/01/portland-hosts-fast-break-cfl-football-precursor-to-cfl-usa-expansion/ · 1 Oct 2025
In 1992, the Canadian Football League was looking to grow. Larry Smith was appointed the CFL’s new commissioner with a mandate to expand the CFL. Of course, Montreal and Halifax were high on Smith’s list of potential sites. But so, too, were several ci...