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“Viewed from the prism of the N.F.L., the Canadian league is a quirky cousin, a pass-happy place with three downs instead of four, and an odd rush of receivers sprinting toward the line of scrimmage before the snap. It has long been a sort of island of misfit toys, filled largely with players who do not conform to N.F.L. standards and players hoping to use it as a steppingstone to the N.F.L.”
-- John Branch for The NY Times
With America cracking down harder on drug use in professional sports, Mr. Branch reports on how some football players get a second chance in Canada to play professional ball, as the Canadians are shrewd enough not to have drug tests.
Such is the case with Mr. R. Jay Soward, for example, who signed on with the Jacksonville Jaguars for a five-year, five and a half million dollar contract, but after getting washed out with bad drug tests and subsequently falling into alcoholism, he has found something of a second chance playing for Canada's Argonauts for fifty-thousand-dollars a year. It beats construction work.
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“Viewed from the prism of the N.F.L., the Canadian league is a quirky cousin, a pass-happy place with three downs instead of four, and an odd rush of receivers sprinting toward the line of scrimmage before the snap. It has long been a sort of island of misfit toys, filled largely with players who do not conform to N.F.L. standards and players hoping to use it as a steppingstone to the N.F.L.”
-- John Branch for The NY Times
With America cracking down harder on drug use in professional sports, Mr. Branch reports on how some football players get a second chance in Canada to play professional ball, as the Canadians are shrewd enough not to have drug tests.
Such is the case with Mr. R. Jay Soward, for example, who signed on with the Jacksonville Jaguars for a five-year, five and a half million dollar contract, but after getting washed out with bad drug tests and subsequently falling into alcoholism, he has found something of a second chance playing for Canada's Argonauts for fifty-thousand-dollars a year. It beats construction work.
