How would you handle the merging of the NFL and CFL?



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Don't discount the rivalry between Arizona and Dallas. Prior to being moved to the NFC West the Cards played the majority of their years as members of the NFC East (in St. Louis and Phoenix) and thus played the Cowboys twice a year for many, many years.

I firmly believe that NFL players playing on a CFL sized field with CFL rules would be the greatest thing to ever happen to the game of football

separating the bears and packers has to be some sort of crime

Great idea, only one change I would make. I feel like you have to have Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo all in the same division. That would be some intense city rivalries

Back around 1983 or ‘84, when I was in, oh, ninth grade I think, I came up with a merger of the CFL and USFL, plus I threw in a couple of WFL and concept teams to bring it up to 28 teams, then split into Eastern and Western Conferences. I even drew helmets with a template, and had some fun with it for a few years. I resurrected the idea later on with a few other teams, like the Baltimore Stallions.

I like the 2nd concept a lot. Only Change I would make would be swapping g the colts and browns. The AFC north is very competitive with each other and close geographically so it makes sense to keep them together

I've been living in Canada for a bit in Ottawa (which is in Ontario too). From what I can see its probably the Blue Bombers and Roughriders who are the most passionate and have the biggest rivalry imo. Also two teams with the same name is honestly not as big an issue as you think. Before they were the RedBlacks Ottawa were called the Rough Riders so it'd probably just be a thing where people would clarify the city more than the nickname. Option 2 is also way better tbf. You could do something like the Dominion and Republic Conferences or something to give a hint at both. It'd be funny to see how they'd merge the rules in this situation because both sides are gonna hate it lol.

😊I hope they don’t merge. But I do hope that NFL and CFL teams play exhibition games and all star games against each other.

I was actually hoping for a merger with the XFL. This would make sense, because both leagues games are similarly faster paced, there's no flags thrown every other play. If you compare an XFL/CFL game with an NFL game, you'll notice the slower pace of NFL games. I also had the idea that games played on XFL fields would use XFL rules, and vise versa. This would add a whole new level of strategy to the league, and every season's final championship game would alternate between CFL, and XFL fields.

It's an interesting idea but but I don't see Canadians willing to give up their larger field extra player and our motion rules are very different plus we have something called the waggle allowing receivers to run up to the line of scrimmage getting a full head of steam. Plus we have one more man on the field instead of 11:00 we have 12

I wish NFL and MLB had eastern and western conferences like NHL, NBA and the MLS

I liked your idea and video. The NFL has plans to expand into Mexico and Europe, so imagine how that would add to your concept!
I’d like to see how the CFL and NFL would blend their rules and regulations.
You’ve got me thinking now. I subscribed to your channel, so I’m looking forward to more content from you!

Instead of an East-West  latitude alignment, you'd bet better off with a North-South longitudinal alignment for the divisions. That way teams stay in their own time zones mostly, making it easier on travel.
e.g. West
BC
Seattle
LA Chargers
LA Rams
SF 49ers
Las Vegas

I came up with a similar merger concept of the two leagues before. I brought back the central division and created a maritime division (mainly because I too threw in the Atlantic schooners team to roughly round out the league as even as possible.)

Got the Brown and Bengals mixed up. I don't like losing the division rivalries, but it's an interesting thought experiment

Ayyyy at least you mentioned Atlantic schooners!! The game at SMU was awesome!

This was entertaining. Also love you mention my town of Moncton New Brunswick!

In both of these scenarios I was really surprised you didn't have Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo all together. All 3 cities are less than 100 miles apart. Otherwise, very interesting.

With concept 2, you could have 12 divisional games and 7 games against all teams in another division and have the divisional matchups be on a 5 year rotating basis. That would be 19 games, which would be likely 3 or 4 bye weeks (which the CFL has). Then have the top 2 teams in each division make playoffs plus 2 wild cards per conference for a full 16 team playoff.