Thursday Commentary: LFG!

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Week 6 in the Canadian Football League kicks off tonight with a classic Eastern Canadian showdown – the Toronto Argonauts at the Montreal Alouettes!

I’m not sure why but the weekly Game Notes email I get from the CFL head office fires me up as much as anything in sports.

There are quite a few great factoids league-wide in this week’s edition.

Did you know the Alouettes’ current 10-game win streak is the longest in club history? Quarterback Cody Fajardo has been at the helm for allllllll of them. And my buddy has thrown a touchdown in 13 straight games entering tonight.

This one should be a gooder – likely a sellout at McGill Stadium for sure – but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it go down to the wire.

In fact, CFL HQ will have you know that 75% of the games have been decided in the final 3:00. Can any other league boast that?

Also, the average margin of victory through five weeks of the season is 8.0 points. So basically, these games have generally all been decided by a touchdown. Amazing!

There are some weird quirks too. Over the first five weeks, teams have surrendered an historic low for sacks in over 100 years of CFL football so it’ll be interesting to see if that trend continues. (I’m all for it. The league needs its QB stars to be on the field).

And, interestingly enough, there have only been two kick return touchdowns this season which puts them on pace for six this entire year. There were 17 last season league-wide!

Look – we can sit here and rail on a lot of things related to the CFL which used to keep me up at night. However it seems there’s plenty enough media and fans doing that already.

But if you concentrate on what’s great about the CFL, it doesn’t take much to fall in love with the League all over again.

That’s today’s Rod Pedersen Commentary.

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