When professional football comes to mind, most modern day Americans tend to think of the NFL and its 32 historic teams, but there are several other alternative pro football leagues that they may have never heard of. One of these leagues is known as the Canadian Football League, or CFL. This league is mostly composed of players coming out of college who aren't quite talented enough to make it to the NFL, and the style of football played is much different than most Americans are used to. Another largely unpopular pro football league is the Arena Football League, or AFL. Like the CFL, this league plays a much different style of football, but it's played indoors rather than outdoors. The final league, Minor League Football, is much different…show more content… The league itself consists of nine teams, and its regular season lasts for 20 weeks, beginning in late June and ending in early November. The nine teams are divided among two divisions, East and West, and the winning teams of each division face off at the at the end of the season in a championship game called the Grey Cup, which is the equivalent of the NFL's Super Bowl. As for the players, most of them are post collegiate athletes who are not quite talented enough to be drafted into the NFL. Those who stand out in the league are usually sent off to the NFL, so the skill level in the CFL is relatively low in comparison. The final major difference between the CFL and NFL is the rules. Canadian Football is played on a field that is 110 yards long, and the goal posts rest in the middle of the goal line rather than the back of the end zone, which introduces a method of scoring known as a rogue. In Canadian Football, each team has twelve players on the field at the same time, and the team on offense only has three downs to move the ball ten yards rather than four downs. These rules make Canadian Football a much faster paced and offensive based
