Download or read book Bigger Balls written by Jeffrey Giles and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book End Zones and Border Wars written by Ed Willes and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: End Zones and Border Wars is the story of the CFL's ill-fated period of expansion into the United States during the early to mid- 1990s. It was a time filled with intriguing characters, from John Candy to Nick Mileti to Pepper Rodgers, the coach who loved everything about the Canadian game except the rules and the teams. With a cast of investors who are hopeful but unfamiliar with the game, bizarre stories emerge, from the Las Vegas Posse practising in the parking lot of the Riviera to the Shreveport Pirates camping out above a barn full of circus animals. The CFL's attempts to push the Canadian game into expanded territory brought both heartbreak and victory, with the 1994 Grey Cup victory of the BC Lions coming alongside the quick decline of every American club under low sales and resistance to new rules. The CFL survived these turbulent times to the harsh realization that it is a game for Canada alone, breaking through to a promising new era for the venerable institution.
Download or read book Canadian Football The Grey Cup Years written by Frank Cosentino and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian Football: The Grey Cup Years traces the first sixty years of the Grey Cup and its influence as a catalyst for the growth of football in Canada. Football moved from an occasion for competition among local teams, to inter-city and inter-provincial rivalries and eventually to the national scene. It began as a purely amateur sport and morphed into the Canadian Football League. Key elements in its growth are discussed: the rise of professionalism, rules of the game and the style of play as well as many of the defining moments and personnel of the era. The book stands alone as well as a lead-in to three other books on Canadian football by Cosentino: Closed Doors and Edmonton Crude, Gone South, and Home Again.
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Download or read book The Baltimore Stallions written by Ron Snyder and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baltimore is home to some of the greatest football players ever to step onto the gridiron. From the Colts' Johnny Unitas to the Ravens' Ray Lewis, Charm City has been blessed with multiple championship teams and plenty of Hall of Fame players. Between the Colts and Ravens, a brief but significant chapter of Baltimore football history was written--the Stallions. Formed in 1994, they posted the most successful single season in the history of the Canadian Football League, when in 1995 they became the only U.S. team to win the Grey Cup. By 1996 the Stallions were gone, undermined by the arrival of the Ravens and the overall failure of the CFL's U.S. expansion efforts. Drawing on original interviews with players, coaches, journalists and fans, this book recalls how the Stallions both captured the imagination and broke the hearts of Baltimore football fans in just 24 months.
Download or read book Goin Deep written by Matt Dunigan and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Put aside the fact that it ended my playing career, punched holes in my memory and put life as I knew it on indefinite hold, it wasn't that tough a hit." Thus begins Goin' Deep, Matt Dunigan's gritty, often startling memoir of his 14-year journey as a Canadian Football League quarterback, a career brought to a shattering halt on an afternoon in Hamilton in 1996 in a game he still cannot remember. It is a story that takes readers where football fans cannot go--down the stadium runway into the dressing rooms--where injury is a fact of life, injections can put agony on temporary hold, and the tough-minded live by the credo that "Pain is mind over matter. If you don't mind the pain, it doesn't matter." But Goin' Deep is more than a football story. The concussion suffered in that game against the BC Lions marked the end of Dunigan's brilliant Hall of Fame career in the no-quarter world of professional football--and the beginning of another journey still in progress, where some days start third-and-long and memories can be shrouded in a drifting, frustrating fog that may or may not clear. "You play the hand you're dealt," he says. "There are good days and bad days. Sometimes putting sentences together can be a struggle. Some days Kathy will say 'Remember when such-and-such,' and I can't. But these are my cards, and I'll play 'em." The way he's played and continues to play them as a TSN football CFL analyst makes Goin' Deep a riveting, heart-warming read.
Download or read book The Canadian Football League written by Steve O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North American football was born in Canada in the 1860s. For decades, though, the growth of Canadian football was slow to change from its rugby traditions. In recent decades, it has been in the shadow of its largest competitor, the National Football League. Although hockey is held up as Canada's number one sport, the CFL has enjoyed as rich and storied a tradition in Canadian sports history. This book is not the usual general history detailing on-field accomplishments, Grey Cup winners etc. Instead, it combines an historical look through 2003 with discussion of continuous themes which have shaped the League. These include the role of the Canadian player, competition from other pro sports, the media's role in creating an image of the CFL, Canadians' attitudes towards pro sports, and how the CFL continually struggles to survive - often in spite of itself.
Download or read book The Canadian Football League Story written by Canadian Football League and published by published for the Canadian Football League by D.W. King Publications. This book was released on 1964* with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Canadian Football League written by Steve O'Brien and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern North American football was born in the 1860s at the same time Canada became a nation. However, for decades, the growth of Canadian football was slow and unwilling to change from its rugby traditions. In more recent times, it has also been in the shadow of its largest competitor, the National Football League. Although hockey is professed to be Canada's number one sport, the CFL has held as rich and storied tradition in Canadian sports history. This book is not the usual general history detailing on-field accomplishments, Grey Cup winners and so on. Instead, it combines an historical look through 2003 with various continuous themes which have shaped the League. These topics include the role of the Canadian player, marketing, competition from other pro sports, the media's role in creating an image of the CFL, Canadian attitudes towards professional sports, and how the CFL continually struggles to survive.
Download or read book A Passing Game written by Frank Cosentino and published by Blizzard Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year by year summary of boardroom conspiracies, inter-league back fighting, media deals, and the increasing Americanization of the CFL.
Download or read book The Canadian Pro Football Encyclopedia written by Tod Maher and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian Pro Football Encyclopedia is without question the most comprehensive resource on the rich history of the Canadian Football League ever published. This edition is updated to include the 2012 season and the historic 100th Grey Cup game. The Canadian Pro Football Encyclopedia goes beyond the players with game scores, historical highlights, standings, team statistics, all-time leaders and the records of the game's head coaches. It is a lineup that will satisfy any football fan. PRAISE FOR THE CANADIAN PRO FOOTBALL ENYCLOPEDIA "The authors have taken CFL research to a new level and added a long overdue and valuable resource to the recorded history of professional football in Canada. The attention to detail is extraordinary and has allowed us to strengthen our league's own historical records in too many ways to count. This is quite simply a must have for any fan of the history of the Canadian game." -Steve Daniel Head Statistician of the Canadian Football League "A well-researched encyclopedia of the Canadian Football League. The presentation is excellent and this voluminous work covers every aspect of the game. A must for any researcher or fan of the CFL." -Ken Crippen Executive Director of the Professional Football Researchers Association ABOUT THE AUTHORS TOD MAHER is an award-winning historian. He is the 2001 Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA) recipient of the Ralph Hay Award for career achievement in professional football research. He is also a three-time winner of the PFRA's annual Nelson Ross Award. He is the co-author of The ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia, The Pro Football Encyclopedia, The Pro Football Playoff Encyclopedia and several other books on the history of professional football. BOB GILL is a former newspaper editor who is the 1990 winner of the PFRA's Ralph Hay Award and a three-time winner of the Nelson Ross Award. He is also the author of Pro Football Trivia and the co-author of The Pro Football Encyclopedia, The Pro Football Playoff Encyclopedia and several books on the history of professional football.
Download or read book Canadian Football World League written by Peter Tremblay and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much talked of "merger" between the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the upstart reincarnated Xtreme Football League (XFL), a league without even one successful season under its belt, was a dog's breakfast. Thankfully, Canadian football survived those perilous negotiations and remained intact for the 2021 season. In Canadian Football World League: Growing the CFL through a new independent international league, Peter Tremblay argues that the most logical direction for the CFL would be a "Canadian Football World League" (CFWL). The CFL is a leader in the International Alliance of Gridiron Football, and there has been significant interest in Canadian football and the CFL among international players and representative international organizations, demonstrating that a global professional football league using Canadian rules is more than viable. Based upon economic models already successfully implemented in other leagues and the unique identity of Canadian football, Peter Tremblay maintains that the time is right for a global approach to growing our national game.
Download or read book Flutie written by Doug Flutie and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous Boston College quarterback, winner of the Heisman Trophy, owner of the record book for quarterbacks in the Canadian Football League, and National Football League All-Pro, recounts his life on and off the field. Doug reveals how he has demonstrated community spirit, charm, and the relentless drive that have been essential to his success as a smaller athlete in a big-man's sport. Includes a look at how Doug led the Buffalo Bills to the playoffs and captured the hearts of fans not only in Buffalo, but across America.
Download or read book Game Day Gangsters written by Curtis Fogel and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the complicated interaction between sport and law, much is revealed about the perception and understanding of consent and tolerable deviance. When a football player steps onto the field, what deviations from the rules of the game are considered acceptable? And what risks has the player already accepted by voluntarily participating in the sport? In the case of Canadian football, acts of on-field violence, hazing, and performance-enhancing drug use that would be considered criminal outside the context of sport are tolerated and even promoted by team and league administrators. The manner in which league review committees and the Canadian legal system understand such actions highlights the challenges faced by those looking to protect players from the dangers of the sport. Although there has been some discussion of legal and institutional reforms dealing with crime and deviance in Canadian sport, little exists in the way of sports law, with most cases falling into the legal categories of criminal, administrative, or civil law. In Game-Day Gangsters, Fogel argues for a review of the systems by which Canadian football is governed and analyzes the reforms proposed by football leagues and by players. Juxtaposing material from interviews with football players and administrators and from media files and legal cases, he explores the discrepancies between the players’ own experiences and the institutional handling of disciplinary matters in junior, university, and professional football leagues across the country.
Download or read book The CFL Shitshow Into XFL Pipe Dream Land written by John Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you frustrated or mystified by the Canadian Football League's apparent inability to restart during the pandemic, despite evidence of how other professional leagues across North America have found a way? Do you find a contemplated merger between the CFL and the American-based XFL troubling? Are there alternatives to a partnership with the XFL that would lead to the veritable destruction of Canada's culturally unique football identity? John Mackenzie's The CFL Shitshow in XFL Pipe Dream Land: In defence of Canadian football during the pandemic provides a succinct critique of the CFL's current woes while providing a perspective on how to rejuvenate the CFL in the prevailing pandemic. Explore how the CFL can reinvigorate itself in a manner that will protect Canadian football as a celebration of our national identity and heritage.
Download or read book Canadian Football League Facts Figures and Record Book written by Canadian Football League Staff and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Football League Teams written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Montreal Alouettes, BC Lions, Toronto Argonauts, Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Calgary Stampeders, Ottawa Canadian Football League team, Ottawa Renegades. Excerpt: The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team competing in the West Division of Canadian Football League (CFL). Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, the Lions play their home games at BC Place Stadium in Downtown Vancouver, having previously played at Empire Stadium in East Vancouver from 1954 to 1982. Due to the installation of a retractable roof at BC Place, the Lions will play at a temporary stadium located at Empire Field for the 2010 season and for the first five regular season games of the 2011 season. The Lions played their first season in 1954, making them the youngest franchise in the CFL, and have played every season since. As such, they are the oldest professional sports franchise in the city of Vancouver and in the province of British Columbia. They have appeared in the league's Grey Cup championship game nine times, winning five of those games, with their most recent championship occurring in 2006. The Lions are also the only Western Canada team to have won the Grey Cup at home, having done so in 1994, while also becoming the only team to beat an American based franchise in a championship game, a feat accomplished in that same game. The Lions currently have the second longest active playoff streak, and sixth longest of all time, having made the playoffs for 14 straight seasons. Name: The team is named for The Lions, a pair of mountain peaks overlooking the city.Helmet design: White background, with a black "BC" and a profile of a mountain lion's head (orange).Uniform colours: Orange, Black, WhiteStadiums: Empire Stadium (1954-1982), BC Place Stadium (1983-2009, 2011-future), Empire Field...
