NCAA Football

The Strangest Canadian Football Game Ever

If the NCAA is going to stage a college football game in Canada, shouldn’t they abide by the local rules? Watching Rutgers and Ball State play the International Bowl in Toronto, there were several violations of Canadian football rules: The field was too small, they gave each team too many downs on offense and there were never enough players on the field.

Even playing by Canadian rules, the Cardinals wouldn’t have had a chance against the Scarlet Knights, not with Ray Rice on the field. The dude ran for 280 yards and acored four touchdowns. (Imagine what his total would have been playing on a 110-yard field.) A 90-yard TD run at the beginning of the third quarter made the score 31-9 and that was, as they say in Canada, all she wrote.

It was fitting that ESPN put Canadian John Saunders in the booth to call the play-by-play, but Doug Flutie and Jessie Palmer should never be allowed anywhere near a live game broadcast. That was like listening to Beavis and Butthead for three hours. In fact, I think Beavis and Butthead would be superior color broadcasters for a football game.

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