"The Canadian Football League had always been fond of its quaint approach to the sport-adding 10 yards to the field here, shaving off a down there, putting 12 players on the field instead of 11 because you can never have too many wideouts, having cavernous end zones and ways to score a single point, even fooling with the nomenclature to include the word "rouge" to describe said point."
"But CFL commissioner Stewart Johnston, whose main job seems to be looking like Thanos if Thanos were a middle distance runner instead of a destroyer of planets, has decided with the help of his owners to Americanize the game in pursuit of more touchdowns, fewer field goals, and playing dimensions that look more like the American game that Canadian football looks but does not feel like."
The CFL will move goal posts to the back of the end zone and shorten end zones from 20 to 15 yards. The field will be shortened from 110 yards to 100 yards. Commissioner Stewart Johnston and team owners aim to Americanize gameplay and increase touchdowns while reducing field goals using CFL office projections. The league's permissive pre-snap motion, larger end zones, 12-player format, and unique scoring like the single point or "rouge" are central Canadian features at risk of being diminished by these changes.
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