Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.

Fresh off of learning about the unmitigated clownshow that was the Las Vegas Posse, we ask the question: "Okay but what if you made it really humid, too? What if you added circus animals?? What if the field tried to kill you???" We also ask the question: "How many CFL franchises do you get a crack at running into the ground with your small adult failson?" And additionally: "What do you do with your jingle after the NFL sues you to make you stop using your team name?" Not to mention: "What is the most appropriate way to write about a public figure dying in a nursing home?" We don't get a lot of good answers, but there are definitely a ton of questions.

This brings us to what Francis Fukuyama was talking about when he said "the end of football history": the 1994 Grey Cup. That's it! There's simply no more football to discuss after that. All that's left is to hammer out George Stroumboulopoulos' role in the past nine episodes. Oh, and "Danton Barto" is in there.

Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur

Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28

Follow our various socials: https://linktr.ee/CanuckIsASlur

Check out Beyond the Breakers: https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebreakerspodcast/ Follow Tanner on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hive.fleet.hodag/

Intro: "A Horse With No Name" by America

Outro: "Baltimore CFL Football Theme" by WMAR-TV Baltimore

Major sources:

"End Zones & Border Wars: The Era of American Expansion in the CFL" by Ed Willes (2013)

"This Isn't How a Legend Should End" by Earl McRae, for the Ottawa Sun (23 June 2007)

Las Vegas Posse vs. Saskatchewan Roughriders (16 July 1994)

Baltimore CFL Football Club vs. Calgary Stampeders (16 July 1994)

Baltimore CFL Football Club vs. B.C. Lions (27 November 1994)

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.

Eight episodes in, we finally directly address the question of "how did Canadian football come to be different from American football?" before skipping straight to the early 1990s to get to the good part! Namely, the time the CFL—on the brink of financial ruin—threw a Hail Mary by trying to expand into a market that was surely ripe to accept Canadian football: the United States of America.

In this one: you'll learn how close we got to getting any more Rough( )riders, the CFL learns the hard way why Americans don't play football in late June, and one obscure anthem singer learns how butchering "O Canada" can make you the most recognizable Yank in Shanghai.

Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur

Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28

Follow our various socials: https://linktr.ee/CanuckIsASlur

Check out Beyond the Breakers: https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebreakerspodcast/ Follow Tanner on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hive.fleet.hodag/

Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)

Major sources:

"Canadian Football: The Grey Cup Years" by Frank Cosentino (2017)

"End Zones & Border Wars: The Era of American Expansion in the CFL" by Ed Willes (2013)

"25 Years on, Infamous O Canada Performance Remains Part of CFL Folklore" by Dan Ralph, for CBC Sports (2019)

Las Vegas Posse vs. Saskatchewan Roughriders (16 July 1994)

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.

We begin the home stretch of this series with a look at the very deliberate creation of modern Gaelic football, which has managed to escape our attention thus far...then we move on to an era of American football so violent that the President gets involved. No, way more "violent" than how you'd mean it today—no, more "violent" than actual combat sports. It's so, so, so much more violent than that. And more fatal.

In Part 7, you'll learn: the physiognomic differences between Irish and English legs, the proper sporting way to go about fighting a spectator, and which of Napoleon's marshals would've made the best offensive coordinator for American football.

As mentioned in this episode, here is the video of Mark Cuban completely dismantling Skip Bayless on live television.

Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur

Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28

Follow our various socials: https://linktr.ee/CanuckIsASlur

Check out Beyond the Breakers: https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebreakerspodcast/ Follow Tanner on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hive.fleet.hodag/

Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)

Major sources:

"How Football Began: a Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born" by Tony Collins (2019)

"Recollections of a Town Boy at Westminster" by Francis Markham (1903)

"Football: a study in diffusion" by Graham Curry (2001)

"Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man" by Julie Des Jardins (2015)

"The Rise and Fall of the Flying Wedge: Football's Most Controversial Play" by Scott McQuilkin and Ronald Smith (1993)

The New York Times, 2 December 1893

"Football facts and figures: A symposium of expert opinions on the game's place in American athletics" by Walter Camp (1894)