CFL GOVERNORS UNANIMOUSLY VOTE TO KICKOFF AUGUST 5
The CFL is going ahead with its 2021 season.
The league’s board of governors have voted unanimously in favour of an amended collective bargaining agreement and starting the ’21 campaign Aug. 5. The CFL did not play in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The league said it will release a 2021 schedule Tuesday. The board approval means training camp will be scheduled to begin July 10.
“Words cannot express how grateful we all are to the health care and front-line workers who have done so much to keep Canada going,”CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie said in a statement. “We at the CFL want to thank everyone who has chosen to get vaccinated, we encourage everyone to get a first shot, or a second, when it is their turn.
“The public health officials in every province keep telling us that as long as the vaccination rate keeps climbing, and the number of cases of COVID-19 is contained or goes down, the more life will get back to normal, including full capacities in our stadiums.”
The league unveiled plans in November for a full 18-game season that was to have started in June but later pushed back the start to August and reduced the number of games to 14.
“We are now in the best possible position to play football in 2021,” the CFLPA said in a statement. “We are pleased the CFL board of governors did the right thing by voting in favour of a good and fair agreement that makes it possible for games to be played, with strong player safety standards in place, as soon as August 5.
“CFLPA members are looking forward to getting back to the game as well as the communities they proudly represent. We will continue to closely monitor decisions made by the various levels of government to understand how we can meet pandemic safety protocols and get players back to work.”
The Grey Cup game was also pushed back from Nov. 21 to Dec. 12 in Hamilton.
(Canadian Press)
Yahoo. Go Riders. ???
Hold up! Hold up! Hold up! King Trudeau and his Merrymen did give their accent to the CFL to proceed with a season. Ole Randy and b of g lackies jumping the gun.
This just in,
The “Delta Variant” could derail Canada’s summer reopening plans. Plus …. the coronavirus was in part developed in a neighboring city lab east of riderville and then smuggled to wohunn, the President’s investigating crew will prove this true. Little boy wonder shaking in his little Canadian boots on P. Hill.
GO ROUGH RIDERS GO ROUGH RIDERS
GO ROUGH RIDERS YEA OTTAWA!
Whoa, hold your horse’s riderville, Trudeau and Theresa Tam didn’t give their permission for the CFL to play with US football citizens coming over the North border in droves, nah hah. Canadian Customs still closed until further notice.
Hopefully Randy and these so called governors unanimously also banned the rouge and the goal line goal posts forever and other quirky {big field] Canuckle-head buffoonery to football north of the south border.