Yes. I still find the NFL to be boring!

[Colin Unger]

Here's my response to this dude.

http://www.canada.com/sports/Debunking+dull+argument/2432039/story.html

First of all let me say that it's not about winning an argument or convincing somebody else that they should discontinue watching American Football. If you enjoy it that's great... it's just that I find the game to be a tad on the boring side and here are the reasons why I don't enjoy it as much as the CFL.

It's not that there isn't enough big plays or scoring in the NFL. My whole thing is that you're average NFL play has less suspense than your average CFL play. And the average NFL big touchdown play is less exhilarating to me than your average big play CFL touchdown. For the writer of this article to assume that we as football fans generically consider any scoring play to be entertaining is an insult to our intellect as football fans.

Just about any CFL play has at least a remote chance to score if the ball is in the hands of the right player. Dump passes in the NFL are designed to pick up 5 to 10 yards but on the wide CFL field these plays can often turn into touchdowns. Knowing that there is a chance of a big plan happening on even the most menial looking play create suspense. The bases always feel loaded during a CFL game.

The NFL has a lot of deep passes these days and those types of plays are nice to see especially when they are performed by the team you're cheering for. But they've got nothing on a short pass to a skilled speedster in the CFL where they make 4 or 5 moves en route to breaking one for a huge play.

It begs the questions. What's more entertaining??? A breakaway goal in hockey or a play where a Sidney Crosby takes the puck end to end and jukes between two defenders and sneaks it by the goalie at the last second.

[Hambone]

Your Crosby analogy is almost irrelevant. The coast-to-coast rush for a goal in today's NHL is about as common as a Bomber Grey Cup win in recent years.  Sorry. 

The vast majority of NHL goals now-a-days are the equivalent of a 1 yard plunge for a TD.....they are scored from the edge of the blue paint. A lot of the reasoning for that is the same in both sports. Like the NFL the NHL plays on a smaller surface with bigger, faster, stronger athletes than they did 20 years ago. In particular this is most evident on defence. Late in his career Gretzky once talked about how incredibly more mobile defencemen were compared to early in his career. You could attack one side of the ice because you knew the d-man on that side was slow of foot. He said that later in his career all d-men were so mobile and able to close gaps that you it was fruitless to try picking on one player. Everybody likes to marvel at Bobby Orr and his end-to-end rushes but rarely did you see anybody pressuring him until he neared the opposing blue line. In today's game he'd have a forechecker right in his face as he came around from behind his own net. He'd be pressured all the way up the ice.

In football I think the biggest change in the game aside for the size increase of players in general has been the athleticism of the players on the defensive side of the ball. Back in the earlier days most of the quicker, faster most athletic players wound up on the offensive side of the ball. I would submit that now the best athletes are more often found on the defensive side of the ball. A talented ball carrier might be able to make one or two guys miss, but rarely do they get beyond that. In the CFL we may see more such big plays but I think that is purely a product of the size of the field as it spreads defences out creating bigger lanes and longer lines of pursuit. With the extra 6 yards to either sideline a CFL ball carrier has a better chance to get to the corner to turn upfield than does his NFL counterpart

[Green is the Colour]

"Darius" Durant?  Seriously?

It took two guys to write that article?  Seriously?

[Argonut]

You know what they say

"Opinions are like butt holes. Everyone else's are repulsive." 

[Ravi Ramkissoonsingh]

The Green Bay/Arizona game turned into a good one but the other three games last weekend were excruciating to watch.  What drives me nuts about the NFL is the pace of the game compared to the CFL.  There seem to be more commercial breaks and the challenge system in the NFL brings the game to a screeching halt.