QUOTE(bondiguy @ Nov 20 2006, 10:28 PM)
Do Canadians get into American Football?
Yeah the NFL(american football) is pretty huge in Canada too, but we have the CFL(canadian footbal) here as well, which is probably more popular. Talent wise it's not at as high of a level as the NFL and many players who can't make it there play here. Well a lot of the time it's not so much that they lack talent, many just aren't big enough to cut it in the NFL. But Ricky Williams played in the CFL this year and didn't do all that much. It takes some time for Americans to get used to playing with our rules.
I know many American will scoff at the CFL but it really is a great league to watch. There are bigger hyped games in the NFL, but I think the CFL provides more entertaining games on a more consistent basis.
The game of "american football" actually originated in Canada.where it had been adapted from rugby. The two games are virtually identical, but Canada has bigger balls(naturally

), we have 3 downs instead of 4, our field is wider and longer, and we have one extra player on the field per team. That's about it.