NFL stadiums have minimum requirements. They can be waived if a natural disaster forces a relocation, but those old CFL stadiums will need to be updated. Edmonton and Vancouver might be able to upgrade enough to meet the minimum 60,000 person capacity. The other seven teams will need new stadiums. You’re not squeezing in an extra 35,000 seats into a 25,000 seat stadium. Imagine conference realignment. You’d almost certainly need to bring in an expansion franchise to even it out; seven is such a weird number. Or is the NFL committing to the CFL’s expansion team in Nova Scotia? That might about New England a bit. Yes. Canadian football is more difficult, according to my Dad, the late, great Kurt Burris, who played professional football in Canada and the US. He played for the Calgary Stampeders and the Edmonton Eskimos, after the Browns, preceded by an OU football career the sports guys still talk about. He would know, I guess. The difficulty of CFL vs the size and training of the NFL guys probably levels the field, I would think. Hypothetically, he would be even richer than most of the current NFL team owners, but it ain’t happening’. It’s already been tried, just not in Canada, and the population is too small anyway.
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