# CFL 2023 season **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [July 7, 2023, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708 "2023-07-07T01:32:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/21 "2023-07-07T03:41:31Z")
Holy hannah! Riders manage a TD, then a two-point conversion, tying up the score. Well done, Riders! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/22 "2023-07-07T03:41:39Z")
Just in time to see a TD and 2 pt convert! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/23 "2023-07-07T03:42:45Z")
Kick conceded! Riders leading 12-11! With 1:03 left to play in the game. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/24 "2023-07-07T03:54:12Z")
And the Riders win! Gosh, there was more action in the final two minutes than in some halves. Glad I tuned in. Celebrating with another Bunny Beer here. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/25 "2023-07-07T04:08:22Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Kick conceded! Riders leading 12-11! I had the sound turned down, but that looked like the returner (an American player, I’m guessing) didn’t realize that he really needed to return that ball out of the end zone? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/26 "2023-07-07T04:19:13Z")
That was the speculation in the stands. If the ball goes through the end zone in a kickoff, there’s no point. But if it stays in the end zone, it’s a point. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/27 "2023-07-07T04:23:42Z")
That’s the way it seemed to me—that he didn’t realize that he would be conceding a single point, and instead, that the ball would be brought out to the 20, and the Elks would go from there. Nope, not in CFL. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/28 "2023-07-07T04:28:48Z")
I’ve never been to a game where a rouge and the singles were so important to the overall score. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/29 "2023-07-07T05:13:22Z")
The player was CJ Sims, a rookie from the States playing his fifth regular season game in the CFL. There was a shot of him after the play talking to the head coach, who looked like he was trying to keep his temper in check. > **[Speedy CJ Sims eager to end Edmonton Elks' drought by scoring a return touchdown](https://torontosun.com/sports/football/cfl/sims-eager-to-end-edmonton-drought/wcm/489b426e-c741-4e03-85fc-326b5ece1ce2/amp/)** > > Edmonton hasn't scored a return TD since 2015. CJ Sims might end the drought. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/30 "2023-07-07T05:49:27Z")
I won’t say it’s common, but it’s also not unheard of, for rookies from the US to get the rules of Canadian and American football confused. Naturally, this tends to happen towards the start of the CFL season, but by the end, the American players get the hang of things. I don’t know what kind of training such players get in Canadian rules, but I’d hope that it would be something more than a half-hour talk in the locker room before their first few games. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/31 "2023-07-07T16:36:03Z")
Special teams coaches just got some highly useful training video last night! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/32 "2023-07-08T02:20:41Z")
Here’s an article with an embedded video. > **[CFL team loses in bizarre fashion after mental blunder](http://amp.thecomeback.com/international/bizarre-cfl-loss-mental-blunder-rouge-elks-roughriders.html)** > > The Edmonton Elks were up 11-3 inside the final 90 seconds Thursday, but lost to the Roughriders on a TD, a 2pt convert, and a rouge. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/33 "2023-07-16T01:31:11Z")
We didn’t go to the stadium for tonight’s game - just too smokey! QB Harris just being carted off with - rolled over a Calgary player in a scramble for 1st down, looks like serious knee damage. Before that, speedy returner had two runbacks on kickoffs to score two kickoffs. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/34 "2023-07-16T01:33:24Z")
I just got in, turned on the TV, and saw something-something-Harris being carted off. Can you explain what happened? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/35 "2023-07-16T01:35:35Z")
Harris was in short yardage and was carrying it himself to make 1st down. There was a pile-up and he rolled over a Calgary player who was already down, and grabbed his knee right away. Not a foul; just one of those unfortunate pile-ups. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/36 "2023-07-16T01:36:51Z")
And Calgary scores; 10 pt lead. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/37 "2023-07-16T01:48:28Z")
And Morrow catches and runs it in - his 3rd touchdown of the night for the Riders. 3 pt game. Battle of the Dickinson brothers continue. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/38 "2023-07-16T01:55:47Z")
Thanks for the info on Harris. Watching the game now. Calgary just scored a field goal. Score: CGY 30; SSK 24, with 1:31 left to play in the game. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/39 "2023-07-16T02:00:30Z")
Holy hannah! Long bomb by SSK results in a TD! Thought CGY might intercept, but nope. Only 42 seconds left. This is edge-of-your-seat football. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708/40 "2023-07-16T02:07:04Z")
Dang. Paredes makes a 50 FG with 0:00 on the clock. That’s it. Coach Dickinson beats Coach Dickinson. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfl-2023-season/986708.md?page=3)