To start the CFL is Canada Football League which is usually played in 8
cities across Canada but this season they put a game in Halifax which
makes 9 cities. While the NFL is The National Football Leauge which plays
in 32 cities in the United States of America with the exceptions being
nuteral site games( Toronto in Canada and London, England). Also in the
CFL teams plays in 26,000 to 40,000 seat stadiums with no blackout on TV
while NFL has a minimum of 63,000 seats in each stadium and if it is not
sold out than the people in the home city do not get to see the game on
tv.
The CFL has a 18 game (9 home games, 9 away games) season that starts on
Canada Day (July 1St) while the NFL has a 16 game (8 home games, 8 away
games) season which starts the sunday after schools back in from summer
break. The Cfl play their games on Friday, Sataurday, and Sunday along
with Mondays on Canadian holidays while the NFL plays Sunday and Monday
and both will play Thursday games during the season when they decide to.
In the CFL teams are in two division which are called the west division
and the east division and each team plays 2 games aganist each of the four
teams in the other division (home and away). They also play 10 games
aganist the 3 other teams in their own division so that they will play 2
teams 3 times and play the other team in their division 4 times to make up
the 18 game season and each division has a week off in the middle of the
season (one division one week and the other division the next week). While
the NFL has two conferences which are called the AFC (American Football
Conference) and the NFC (National Football Conference) and both
conferences have 4 divisions which are called North, East, South, and West
which all have 4 teams in them. In the NFL each teams schedule starts with
2 games aganist each of the other 3 teams in their division (home and
away) and then the division will play every team in another division in
their conference (2 home and 2 away) and they play each division every 3
seasons. Then each team in a division plays a division in the other
conference (2 home and 2 away) and they play each division every 4 seasons
and the last home and away game in the 16 game NFL regullar season are
decided by each team's record at the year end of last season. So where you
placed in your own division (first, second, third, fourth) you will play
the teams in the same position in the other 2 divisions in your conference
and teams have 1 bye taken somewhere between week 4 and 10.
In the CFL the playoffs work like this the first place team in each
division get a week off while the second place team in each division will
host a game called the semi-finals of their division. They will face
either the third best team in their division or the fourth best team in
the other division depending on who has the better record at the end of
the season and the two winners of the semi-finals will go the next week to
face the first place team of the conference in-which the second place team
is from. The winners of the finals will play each other in predetromed
city (1 of the 8 cities that have a team in the CFL) and they play for
what is called the Grey Cup and the winning team gets to hoast the Grey
Cup (98Th Grey Cup in Edmonton this November) and get a championship ring.
The NFL playoffs work like this the two divison winners with the best
records in both conferences get the week off (called byes) while the other
two division winners host a game aganist 1 of 2 teams that have the best
records but did not win their division (called wild cards). With the
division winner with better record hosting a game aganist the undivision
winner with the worth record while the other two teams will play each
other. Then the next week the two teams in each conference that had byes
host a game with the team with best record playing the team with the worst
record of the two winners of the week before and the other two teams in
each conference play each other. The next is the conference finals with
the last two teams in each conference playing each other with the team
with the better record hosting the game. Two weeks later in a predetermed
city (1 of the 32 cities that have a team in the NFL most likely a warm
place) the two conference winners play for what is called the Superbowl
(played in late January) and the winner gets to hoast the trophy and they
get a ring too.
So the CFL starts earlier in the year July instead of September while the
CFL also plays 2 more games and every team in the CFL gets to play each
other in a home and away series unlike the NFL. The playoff in the CFL are
different because a team in one divison can play aganist a team in the
other division before the campionship game unlike the NFL and finally the
CFL has only 1 bye in a division instead of 2 in a conference for the NFL.
The CFL also plays to smaller crowds and every game of the season is on TV
and the CFL plays regular season games are usually played on Friday,
Sataurdays, and Sundays unlike the NFL who only has Sataurday games the
last two weeks of the regular season.
Thanks for reading
tom mehegan
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