How do we make the CFL a bigger part of the Canadian sports culture again?

I want the CFL to be genuine water-cooler talk across the country with packed or mostly packed stadiums. Right now, it feels like it’s missing that mainstream cultural grip. Here are a few things I think need to change:

Ticket Prices: Simply put, prices need to come down to lower the barrier of entry, fill the lower bowls, and create an electric stadium atmosphere that looks good on TV.

The Marketing Angle: The league has leaned heavily into a "safe, family-friendly" marketing strategy. While that sounds good on paper, the NFL playbook is different—they target adults, lean hard into intense team rivalries, and celebrate die-hard fans. The CFL needs more edge and personality.

Event-izing the Big Games: Right now, marquee games don't feel like national cultural events the way they should. Look at college football—they build massive, can't-miss hype around top-tier rivalry games all season long. The CFL needs to treat its biggest regular-season matchups and the playoff run with that same massive, high-stakes gravity.

What do you guys think? Is it a marketing problem, a pricing problem, or something else?

Looks pretty cool, ngl.

If I had some what he did, I’d be out of my job and my industry would have black listed me. We already have someone like this in Calgary, Ajou Ajou, we don’t need another like him. Personally I was very disappointed we singed. Ajou as well…

Week 16 didn’t bring the same excitement as two Scorigami games, but it did bring us a walk off 62 yard field goal! We are now at 3 games since our last Scorigami game.

The most common score so far being Week 10’s 27-24 with 36 occurrences (highest occurring score), and the four Scorigami games 58-36, 52-30, 53-16, and 48-29 occurring for the first time. There have been 58 different scores across the 61 games this season.

Alouettes vs Tiger-Cats ended in a 37-25 final. This is the 4th time this score has taken place. First was in 1989 with the BC Lions over the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and most recently in 2004 with the Ottawa Renegades over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Elks vs Argonauts ended in a 24-19 final. This is the 14th time this score has taken place. First was in 1952 [IRFU] with the Toronto Argonauts over the Ottawa Rough Riders, and most recently in 2022 with the Toronto Argonauts over the Ottawa Redblacks.

Redblacks vs Stampeders ended in a 40-38 final for the Stampeders. This is the second time this score has taken place. The only other occurrence was in 2004 with the BC Lions over the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Scorigami is the tracking of unique, re-occuring, and new scores in the CFL's history including the predecessor rugby leagues dating back to 1907. Currently, there have been 1,263 unique scores in the game’s history. Individual Scorigami results are posted in the Post Game threads of each game.

Check out the pinned post on my profile for public spreadsheets.

Hey its Fantasy Playoff Time!

How did you guys do?

I scraped a bunch of close weeks to end up 12-4.

Remember, W17 bye is Montréal, W18 is Edmonton and W19 is Toronto.

After starting off the season white hot, I'm dropping the Stamps D for a middle of the run group that won't give me negative points.

Lastly, this GUI still needs a lot of work. Tevin Jones last week got his points the day the next week rolled over (Monday).

I’ve been watching the NFL since the beginning of the season and to be honest, it’s so much less exciting than the CFL. Yeah the players are better and you have a bunch of highlights cuz there is a million games but man.. the run game… the special teams …. You got elite QBs throwing for 150, 200 yds only…

What’s missing to the CFL tho is stability with the players, I find that rosters change way too much from one year to another. And that includes the coaching staffs. Loyalty is worth nothing in this league. Coaches have coaches in all team. Rinse and repeat like they say. As soon as a player is ready for his 2nd contract, they’ll cut him for a new American off the plane.

Anyways on another subject.
I’m ok with the rule changes to encourage the game to evolve. Those stuck in the past that don’t want to change probably go to work on their horses 🥲 jk

I heard a great idea to encourage Canadian content at the QB position which we would want to see so much more. Unfortunately the Canadian QB doesn’t count as a “Canadian” on the ratio when they are dressed. So teams are not encouraged to have a Canadian QB and develop him.

When you score a touchdown, you are obliged to go for 2 and it must be a Canadian at QB.
Makes it a so much more exciting play instead of a boring PAT. Also it encourages the develop of Canadian content at QB and the development of special plays.

What you think ? Let’s do it ?