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What's the difference between American Football and Canadian Football?

The two games look very alike to me and I am presuming there are some differences. Otherwise why bother to call them different names. Also, some of the American players wear funny looking kind of apron things and I have no idea what these are for. I used to play rugby myself and to some people its just as hard to figure out as American/Canadian football. Thanks for the info.

Public Comments

1. I don't know
2. American Football is waaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy more exciting...
3. no offense to all canadians but u need raw natrual talent to play american football. u canadians cant even take a hit!!! I cant wait until the nfl expands to canada!! then the PATS will kill everyone!
4. the basic differences are the ball shape and size, the field dimensions (including the end zone), the location of the goal post, number of downs, and number of people. Then there's the style of game, if you understand football and what 1 more person and a bigger field, and one less down means, you'll know what i mean
5. Go here and scroll down to the part where it says "differences" You will learn all about it here is the link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Canadian_and_American_football