Any interest in having the host city team play the all-stars from the other 8 teams?
The All-Star team would be individually better than the host team, but the host team would be popping on all cylinders since they have everything organized and they know each other.
Thoughts on this type of all star game?
A traditional East vs. West matchup would be unfair with a 4 vs. 5 talent pool.
No interest … I-M-O football is the WORST sport for an all-star game.
I would take a preseason skills comp over an all-star game.
Most Players are already home before or shortly after the GC. Add the potential of injury, it’s a non-starter
I would only agree to it if it was played in a Home Depot parking lot .
Lameroo.
I could be watching re runs of America’s Funniest Home Videos or counting license plates on the freeway just for fun. Fake games known as all star games suck.
I would be okay with the CFL getting more in bed with “World Vision Canada.” They can focus on going to the Philippines in year 1 with enough players to form a Touch Football team. Help build houses or whatever World Vision wants them to do. In their spare time they can play against local Asian/Australian teams and any money can be donated to WVC. If the CFL can manage to get sponsorship from NFL Canada then that’s a bonus. They might do it because of the Los Angeles Olympics so it’s not an impossible goal.
year 2 Mexico. Play any south/north American teams that want to participate.
year 3 go to Africa. Play any African or European teams that want to participate. Likely African participants would just be learning the game.
Year 4 Invite the best of those teams to Canada. They have a rugby 7 tournament at BC place once in a while so it’s not an impossible ask.
I like other posters don’t see a tackle football game happening. However, getting the CFL brand out there in the world is not a bad thing.
Well the NFL has done this for years, and it’s known as the Pro Bowl, and well, look how terrible an idea that has been for decades and is now such that they don’t even play tackle football. Since 2022 when flag football was played, the NFL has rebranded them the NFL Pro Bowl Games.
Anyway, that’s a huge load of SUCK, and so is this idea for any league any more.
@Bom1980 you might like this idea. What do you think? EZ meet Bom.
Perfect.
I’m really not interested in any kind of All-Star game but would 100% be down for a skills competition during the pre/post season.
I was being serious about the entire CFL getting domed stadiums for all nine teams. I think with ingenious engineering the existing stadiums can remain intact with an outer structuring (a bubble of sorts) the encloses the stadium.
That was your thread over two years ago, and it was fun back then for a while during the lingering pandemic, but anyway, back to your other made-up crap.
Hate to burst your bubble, but I doubt that anyone here takes your nonsense seriously.
My vote would be an All-Star Week just before the pre-season, so in April or May. Make it a week long mini festival in a CFL city or a non-CFL city (e.g., Halifax, Quebec, London) and include a skills competition and three flag football games (CFL all-stars, CFL alumni, university all-stars). I’d be tempted to tie the CFL draft to this week, as well. Bring the football communtity together - pros and future pros - in one city for one week. Surely, you can build a marketable (and fun) product around something like this.
Wait until you meet @Bom1980 and @EZ_Football and they share with you more ideas like this one.
You all might even start your own private chat about them, or go figure, even a new Reddit thread!
CFL used to have a CFL week during the off-season. Then it was discontinued. I don’t see it coming back because the CFL doesn’t like to spend money with very little return. Go figure.