After 24 hours of panic, curiosity and wild speculation amongst Canadian football fans, CFL commissioner Stewart Johnston actually managed to make a measured yet impactful announcement on Monday.

The first-year boss didn’t do what Canadian football traditionalists feared, and turn the CFL into essentially a G-League or AHL for the behemoth that is the NFL.

Instead, after five months of listening and learning on the job, Johnston unveiled some intriguing rule changes that, it says here, should improve the product. The CFL outlined its two-year plan for phased rule changes on Monday after giving 24-hours notice for a downtown Toronto press conference — a sure sign something big was up.

The new game will maintain two of the most important features of the CFL — three downs and the wider fie

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