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The CFL and NFL competed for the same player pool in their earlier years before the CFL settled into a de facto (and from time to time formal) developmental role to its American counterpart. Dozens of professional players move between these codes' top professional leagues every year, making any attempt at a list incomplete at best.
NFL owners voted to approve the 2020–2030 CBA on February 20, 2020. [29] The Board of Representatives for the NFL Players Association approved a vote of the proposed CBA from the NFL owners on February 26, 2020, that went to a vote of the members of the Players Association. [30] The new CBA was agreed to by the NFLPA on March 15, 2020. [31]
In return, the NFL was granted access to CFL players entering a defined two-month window in the option year of their contract. This was later written into the CFL's collective bargaining agreement with its players. The CFL's finances have since stabilized and they eventually repaid the loan. The CFL–NFL agreement expired in 2006.
A player with a $50 million contract will pay $1.5 million to an agent. Under the standard contract, an agent receives 3% of the contract in fees. 7 NFL Players Who Have Negotiated Their Own ...
The league also has agreements with the CFL that date to the 1990s regarding the honoring of player contracts. In 2021, the NFL announced that they were planning on holding more regular season games outside of the United States in the near future, with Canada being one of the countries they were hoping to hold a game in, in addition to ...
Two years later, in 1982, after NFL players went on strike in September, the CFL got another chance at major network exposure when NBC bought out the ESPN rights for $100,000 a game to make up for its lost football programming. NBC would air CFL games on Sunday afternoons with full NFL production values and announcing crews.
The Canadian Football League (CFL) follows similar rules to the NFL with regards to practice squad players, but has unique rules due to its nationality-based player designation and roster ratio system, where Canadian citizens are considered "national" players and non-Canadians are considered either "international" or "global" players. Each CFL ...
Salaries are up to five times higher and the position lends itself to longevity: Australian football players generally retire at around 30, whereas American football punters can play well into their 40s (Darren Bennett, played 11 seasons in the NFL after leaving an Australian rules career when he was nearing 30).