That was my first thought when I looked over the CFL’s big news on Monday.

Star Canadian quarterback Nathan Rourke of the B.C. Lions calls it “garbage.” That’s close enough.

Over the next two seasons the three-down game will begin to look a little more American, starting with the length of the field.

The league’s taller foreheads decided a shorter field, shrunk from 110 yards to 100, makes for a better game.

“Trading field goals for touchdowns,” is how the new commish, Stewart Johnson, described it in a news release.

Offences will start closer to the opponent’s end zone, which will increase scoring, they claim. They didn’t say by how much.

But they did predict how another south-leaning move would pile up the points: moving the goal posts to the back of the end zone.

“10 per cent mor

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