Why doesn't Canada have a NFL team?
 

They have a team for every other "major" North American sport that I can think of... why not football? I would think a city like Toronto would be able to support of football team. No?

Canadian teams in American based leagues suck. Except for NHL of course.

Why am i not thinking of a MLB team in canada

EDIT: Blue Jays :thumbsup

CFL wouldn't be to happy with that competition

Our cities can barely support our own CFL teams, never mind then also having a NFL team.

Canadian men are not manly enough for American football. Thats why they have 3rd rate players and end zones that are 20 yards long.

Plus...NFL teams need 50k plus fans...that would never happen in Canada.

Cause they NBA did sooooooooo well up here!

They got some tough fuckers in canada, i dunno why not.

The CFL and the NFL cut a deal a few years ago. As long as the CFL exists the NFL will not consider a Canadian NFL franchise.

We probably aren't big enough to support a team.Toronto although a fairly big Canadian city barely gets any fans for their CFL team..seems more like a Baseball/basketball town

Because nobody wants to play football on ice :D

A REAL answer. Thank you.

Do Canadians watch NFL more than CFL? I never hear anything about the CFL, I think I've seen it on TV once.

I can't believe I'm the only person to find this funny :).

Some (like me) do watch more NFL than CFL. But I did catch the Grey cup game a few weeks ago, it was one hell of a good football game.

Big markets like toronto, vancouver and MTL could probably pull it off.

It's also tough to get rid of the walrus shit on the tundra..it tends to freeze over

You forgot... hockey ?!? lol

how's dat

I personally only watch CFL ... NFL games once in a while that's about it.

One could think that way... if one was clueless.

Hey, for every stupid remark you can make you'll hear a Canadian shoot back with something like "Yeah? Well at least we don't need FOUR DOWNS to get a first down like your NFL pussies :1orglaugh "

In the CFL you get 3 downs to move the ball, if you can't cut it with that you can't cut it.

Two different sets of rules, no sense at all in comparing the two leagues.

And Canadians on the whole would prefer to preserve our CFL rather than bring in NFL franchises, so it's a non-issue.

The real reason is that the league is literally the "National Football League." They are not the "International Football League." Canada is not part of our nation and is therefore not eligible to join.

Don't the Toronto Blue Jays play in the American League in MLB?

And the National Hockey League has both Canadian and American teams, no?

go canada

As does the NBA.

Someone should phone the Toronto Raptors and tell them they can't play anymore because someone on GFY said they're not eligible. :winkwink:

Canadians don't know how to do anything but shovel snow and fuck moose.

If you handed them a football, they'd draw antlers on it, cut out a hole, and try to stick their penis in it.

And we, unlike Saddam Hussien, are definitely hording weapons of mass destruction.

Well "Major League Baseball" is not limiting by definition. The "league" names are left over from the days when it was strictly played in the United States.

The NHL . . . well crap, I (like 99% of Americans) don't know anything about that.


Obviously the answer is money. I'm just trying to pick on those hosers.

Don't worry, you're next on the liberation list.

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.

From wikipedia.org:There you have it.

We'd rather save our money for beer than spend it on a fleshlight...

If that means you yourself are coming to my house, no need to kick the door in.

Take me, I'm yours.

And why doesn't the US have a team in the CFL? haha...

People in Canada don't really care about football... most of us would rather watch hockey or real football (soccer).

They don't have a NFL team cuz all of the meat head players in the CFL league cried their poor little hearts out when the Baltimore Stalions won their prechious little trophy

Doesn't the NFL fund the CFL now anyways?

Similar to a minor league for the NFL... (besides drafting players from college)

nevermind, it was cleared up for me, according to my friend, the NFL bailed the CFL out of Bankruptcy and ran the league for 2 years until they got back on their feet, this was like 8 years ago or something...

I don't think the NFL wants to touch the CFL anymore..

The CFL is really good football, some of the biggest college stars play in the CFL...usually because they're a little small to play in the NFL (Doug Flutie for example) alot of canadians like both the NFL and CFL, I dont really worry about which one I like more I just enjoy the games. And TO could get enough fans for an NFL game if they ever got a franchinse which I doubt they ever will. Just stop calling the super bowl champions "world champions" same goes for the nba

:1orglaugh I was only kidding dude. I love Canada. Quebec has beautiful brunettes.

Canadians don't really understand what the big deal with football is. Hockey is your sport.

Football is now the number one sport in the U.S.