As Grey Cup weekend approaches in Winnipeg, an Angus Reid poll finds that only 16% of Canadians follow the CFL closely or very closely.
This compares to both 2014 and 2018, when 21% Canadians said the same thing. Three different iterations of this survey (2021, 2023, and 2025) concluded that interest peaked at just 17%.
The championship game between Montreal and Saskatchewan will be the last Grey Cup played before “tweaks” to field dimensions and game rules are introduced over the next two seasons
These changes include shortening the field from 1 10 yards to 100 yards, shortening end zones from 20 yards to 15 yards, moving the goalposts from the goal line to the back of the end zone, nixing the single point awarded for a missed field goal that goes through the end zone, and using an

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