AT LEAST THERE'S ONLY ONE ROUGHRIDERS NOW

Neil points out Reason Number 1,347 the CFL has it over the NFL: Imagining some poor bastard up from the States on business sitting in a bar last night, trying to figure out what the hell was going in the Saskatchewan-Montréal game playing on one of the TVs.

The Roughriders won 16-7, so our American friend would include the Alouettes were held to just the one touchdown until Chris Cuthbert said, "Well, that's six of seven points coming on safeties." Picture the dude saying, "How the hell did they get the other point?" just as the bartender gave him some change that included one of those poppy quarters that some U.S. Army guys feared were being used for espionage. He very well might have run out of the bar screaming.

It was 2-0 after the first quarter, 6-2 at halftime and 16-5 after three -- scores completely foreign to someone raised on that lesser version of football with the extra down, the fair catch and limited motion on offence. Since Montreal wasn't able to manage so much as a field goal, one could say a poppy quarter is a lot scarier than Jim Popp's team.

(This segues right into a note that Gatineau's Eric Deslauriers, the wideout who starred at Eastern Michigan, is expected to sign with the Alouettes. Eastern Michigan's teams are the Eagles and wear green and white, so obviously Out of Left Field feels obligated to root for him.)