On canada.com today, there's a story titled "CFL's dysfunctional ways simply carry on", and on sportsnet.ca (as pointed out in another thread), there's one titled "C is for cuckoo". Then the two stories go on to mock the CFL for what's happened over the past few months, such as:
-The Argos going after Flutie and Williams;
-The Riders firing Shivers;
-The TiCats firing Marshall;
-Not all teams are around .500 (ie, some teams are really good and some teams aren't);
-All teams are around .500 (yes, one article complains about it one way, another complains about it the other way);
-Some games were close;
-Toronto's QB's became injured;
-There's no team in Ottawa;
-Tom Wright is leaving after this year;
-The media has been banned from some locker-rooms;
-The Argos fired Kent Austin;
-The "CFL" going "ga-ga" over American stars (never mind that it's the teams, NOT the League, that goes after American stars) and "not learning";
-Shivers being fired after a win;
-Shivers not firing Barrett (to try and save his own skin);
-It being very possible that the second half of the season will be different from the first.
One article says "Getting rid of the Ottawa Renegades hasn't made the CFL any less wacky", "Take a look around; turmoil is rampant", and "Now that's the dysfunctional little CFL family we all know and love"; the other says "Just wondering here, as we do about a dozen times every summer, but doesn't the CFL seem just a trifle bizarre?", "But - which has always been the CFL's favourite word - the league is so untogether in other areas", "On the field so far, the CFL is just as cuckoo as it's ever been", "Even though the manner in which they would have reached it is typically CFL. Bizarrely."
This is brutal. Why does the CFL get mocked over things that happen in EVERY other league (even the invincible NHL and NFL)? Why is it "cuckoo" or "dysfunctional" that there have been a few firings mid-season? Name one league that hasn't had a mid-season firing. If you think there's a lot of parity in the league, how is that a bad thing? If not, then name me one other league that doesn't have some really good teams and some really bad teams. And so on. Every point up there applies to every major sports league. So why does the CFL have to continue putting up with this crap?