NFL stands for "National Football League," which is the professional football league in the USA.
CFL stands for "Canadian Football League," which is the professional football league in Canada.
CFL-3 downs NFL-4 downs
The teams that share a name between the NFL and CFL are the Detroit Lions of the NFL and the British Columbian Lions of the CFL.
CFL. It must be short for RoughRiders. There is no team called the "Riders" in the NFL. However, there is a team called the Raiders.
NFL is four downs and cfl is three therefore having more passing. Also the cfl field is longer(120 yards and 20 yard endzones) compared to NFL which is(100 yards and 10 yard endzones). Finally the cfl ball is larger.
They can if the get drafted.
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Generally, yes. However, there are rules regarding players being under contract to only one team. If a CFL player has an opportunity to play in the NFL, he first gets released from his CFL duties. Then, he signs an NFL contract. Dominique Dorsey recently missed the first half of the 2009 CFL season while he was signed with the Washington Redskins. They released him just before the season opener and he returned to his CFL team, the Toronto Argonauts.
Yes ... QB Warren Moon won the CFL Most Outstanding Player award with the Edmonton Eskimos in 1983 and the NFL Most Valuable Player award with the Houston Oilers in 1990. Moon is one of two men inducted in both the CFL and NFL Hall of Fame ... the other is Bud Grant.
Well Mexico doesn't have NFL but Canada is the only other country with NFL.Theirs is CFL(Canadian Football League).
Warren moon, and doug fluttie
Kevin Ingram played for the Edmonton in the CFL.