A day after Canadian quarterback Nathan Rourke blasted the CFL’s changes as “garbage,” veteran passer Bo Levi Mitchell backed the moves as a way to push the game forward.

“This is not about Americanizing the game, this is about modernizing the game,” Mitchell, a 12-year veteran and twice the league's outstanding player, told reporters in Hamilton on Tuesday.

“What can we do to put a better product on the field, a product that people want to watch, that's a faster pace? This is not taking away the unique things (about the CFL).”

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback's comments were in response to a series of sweeping changes unveiled Monday by CFL commissioner Stewart Johnston, including a shorter field in 2027 and next year doing away with singles being awarded for missed field goals that

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