Berzerker
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You ever see the movie "The Replacements"?
sophie
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Did you see what the league looked like when they tried to replace the refs?
But Trump said he loves the poorly educated.
warpus
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You think Americans would watch a bunch of Canadian Football League players duke it out on the pitch? They already have the chance to watch, and they don't.
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That's because we have two superior alternatives in the NFL and NCAA football. Take one of those options away and I bet the CFL would become a lot more popular in the US until the NFL got back up and running.
Isn't that true for just about any profession though? If you've trained your whole life in being an auto mechanic, are you really going to be employable outside of the auto mechanic industry? Probably not. That's why employers hold so much power over their employees. Employees tend to become increasingly specialized the longer they are in a particular industry and so can't really afford to "stand up" to their employer for fear of becoming blacklisted in the industry and becoming unemployable. This is especially true in small or highly specialized industries where everyone knows everyone else and can spread the word about particularly troublesome individuals.
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warpus
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I really doubt it. People wouldn't take the time to learn all the new teams and new players, all sub-standard to what they are used to in terms of athletic ability. They aren't going to learn all the new rules, just so that for a couple weeks they can watch football. They'll just watch the NCAA instead or hey there's the NBA and MLB
Nah, remember that 2 year baseball strike in the mid 90s? People didn't start following Japanese baseball, they just switched to the NFL, which is part of how Football eclipsed baseball as the "National Pastime". I remember baseball being king before that strike, but after the strike, the stadiums were empty, nobody cared about baseball anymore. They went years and never recovered and it ultimately took a steroid-fueled home run race to get people interested in baseball again, but they didn't switch to another country's baseball league. So I think @warpus is right that CFL wouldn't benefit much from the NFL's absence.
The difference being that Japanese baseball wasn't, and still isn't, televised in the US while you can occasionally find CFL games on TV.
I think the real issue here is that there just isn't much demand for either, which is why you don't get the tv coverage.
Can't watch the CFL. They disrespectfully refuse to play the Star Spangled Banner before their games.
danjuno
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You'd get more viewers if they played Gordon Lightfoot.
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I find it hard to believe that players who want to play in the NFL but are just outside the requisite margin of skill at the moment wouldn't jump in. Unlike the refs, these players have years of experience (some of them years of NFL experience). The quality of games would be reduced, how substantially depends on how many players are being replaced.
If you literally replaced everyone the popularity would nosedive, though I would still respect these games more than the steaming pile of trash that is NCAA football.
If they get Lyndon Slewidge to do the anthem for all the games, I'll be happy to listen to "O Canada".
Seriously, it'll make you wish you were Canadian.
After a few weeks the fantasy players and gamblers would keep the popularity up once they figure out who was who.
