Matthew Campbell is on the line from Houston, but the distance doesn’t distill the passion he feels for Canadian football.

Originally from Hamilton but a died-in-the-green-wool Saskatchewan Roughriders fan – he hoped we wouldn’t hold that against him here in Manitoba – Campbell watched the CFL’s game-changing news conference on Monday and immediately sprang into action.

Creating a group called Concerned Fans of Canadian Football, Campbell began an online petition for like-minded followers of the three-down game.

Their concern: The league’s plan to erase two things that make the CFL game unique – the 110-yard length of the field and the position of the goal posts on the goal lines.

More than 1,100 fans signed up on the first day.

By early afternoon on Thursday, the petition had some

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