CFL (Canadian Football League) is dead. Long live the CFL. From: What Magazine | Date: February 1, 1997| Author: Keast, Mark | COPYRIGHT 1997 What! Publishers Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Canadian Football League as we know it is dead, or at least it should be. But that doesn't mean professional football in this country can't flourish.

Which is why all this talk joining up in some capacity with the NFL makes sense.

It's all about perception, and what's going to get the young people in this country more excited than some kind of affiliation with the world's top pro football league?

Throw out all the arguments about the loss of pr...

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