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Canadian Football League Ligue canadienne de football; Most recent season or competition: 2024 CFL season: Sport: Canadian football: Founded: January 19, 1958 (67 years ago) () [1] [2] First season: 1958: Commissioner: Randy Ambrosie: No. of teams: 9: Country: Canada: Headquarters: 50 Wellington Street East, Toronto, Ontario: Most recent ...
The fledgling ESPN cable network signed a deal in 1980 to broadcast 30 CFL regular season games and the playoffs (including the Grey Cup game) in the United States, and CFL games became a fixture of the early years of the network. Two years later, in 1982, after NFL players went on strike in September, the CFL got another chance at major ...
After the merger of the Big Four and WIFU, the first 29 CFL seasons each consisted of nine teams playing in the same nine cities. [1] In 1961, inter-conference play began during the regular season. Until 1973, Western Canadian teams played 16 games, while Eastern Canadian teams played 14 games.
Two notable events occurred off-field at the end of the 1950s. In 1958 the Argonauts became a founding member of the Canadian Football League and a year later found a new home at Exhibition Stadium. [note 3] The Argonauts have won a record 19 Grey Cups, but suffered through a 31-year championship drought from 1952 to 1983.
In 1994, the CFL decided to expand further into the United States after admitting the Sacramento Gold Miners as the first U.S. team a year earlier. This led to the addition of the two American -based teams in the East, the Shreveport Pirates and a team in Baltimore that would eventually be called the Stallions after the NFL successfully ...
Canadian football, or simply football, is a sport in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete on a field 110 yards (101 m) long and 65 yards (59 m) wide, attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team's end zone.
The company was founded in a garage, and within two years, it produced its first hit: the Uke-a-Doodle, a kid-sized instrument. Barbie, perhaps Mattel's most iconic toy line, didn't join the party ...
This is a list of Canadian Football League regular season records that are effective as of the end of the 2024 CFL season. Italics indicate an active player. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.