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Originally Posted by Sly
Why doesn't Canada have a NFL team?
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This simple answer to this question is that, unlike the other major sports, we have our own league for football, "The Canadian Football League"
The league has a long and storied history all it's own, thus Canadians want to preserve it rather than have yet one more thing swallowed up and absorbed by the giant living to our South.
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The Canadian Football League (CFL; French: Ligue canadienne de football) is a professional league located entirely in Canada that plays Canadian football. It is considered to be the highest level of play in Canadian football. The league's top trophy, the Grey Cup, was donated by Governor General Earl Grey in 1909 to the team winning the Senior Amateur Football Championship of Canada. Both the trophy and the championship game have become known as the Grey Cup.
Since 1954, when the Ontario Rugby Football Union stopped challenging for the Grey Cup, the trophy has been awarded only to professional teams with the championship generally being an East vs. West competition. This is also the year the British Columbia Lions started play as the ninth professional team, so although the CFL was not technically founded until the late 1950's, 1954 is often referred to as the start of the "modern era" of Canadian professional football.
It is also considered to be the year the CFL was founded in substance if not in name. The game is very similar to American football but there are several major rule differences. Compared to the NFL, the CFL can be considered a "gunslingers" league.
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There you have it.