Saturday, November 29, 2008

Those crazy Canadians

After the Baltimore Colts became the Indianapolis Colts but before the Cleveland Browns became the Baltimore Ravens, Baltimore had a brief stint as the host city of a team in the Canadian Football League.  They were to be called, of course, the Baltimore Colts, but the NFL prevented that because there was already a team called the Colts.  Nevermind the fact that the two teams played a completely different sport in completely different leagues; the NFL didn't see that.  The first season they played in Baltimore they were known as the CFLs, the second season they were the Baltimore Stallions, won the league championship (the Grey Cup), and the third season they moved to Montreal and became the Alouettes.  But I digress.  The point of this paragraph of Baltimore history is to emphasize that I know a little about Canadian football.  It's similar enough that you can watch a game and have a good idea of what's happening, but different enough that the details can be really confusing (can anyone explain the rouge to me?).

So anyway, another big difference (apparently) is the player celebration after scoring.  I stumbled across this one today, and it is without a doubt the most bizzare football scoring celebration I have ever seen.  Your thoughts?



Those crazy Canadians!

1 comment:

Kayla said...

Duck, duck, goose! There's something that could be great fun with a group of over a hundred or so people.

Football is still football no matter what rules you play by. (Nevermind European football...)