Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.
Eight episodes in, we finally directly address the question of "how did Canadian football come to be different from American football?" before skipping straight to the early 1990s to get to the good part! Namely, the time the CFL—on the brink of financial ruin—threw a Hail Mary by trying to expand into a market that was surely ripe to accept Canadian football: the United States of America.
In this one: you'll learn how close we got to getting any more Rough( )riders, the CFL learns the hard way why Americans don't play football in late June, and one obscure anthem singer learns how butchering "O Canada" can make you the most recognizable Yank in Shanghai.
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Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)
Major sources:
"Canadian Football: The Grey Cup Years" by Frank Cosentino (2017)
"End Zones & Border Wars: The Era of American Expansion in the CFL" by Ed Willes (2013)
"25 Years on, Infamous O Canada Performance Remains Part of CFL Folklore" by Dan Ralph, for CBC Sports (2019)
Las Vegas Posse vs. Saskatchewan Roughriders (16 July 1994)
