It’s tempting to think of NFL as the be-all and end-all of football-maybe with a grudging nod to the game of soccer, known as football around the world-but Canada has a football all of its own. The Canadian Football League was founded in 1958, but the Championship Game, called the Grey Cup, was played as early as 1909. It traces its origins to the Canadian Rugby Football Union formed in 1884-a game played in the country as early as 1860. For many years, the CFL contained the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Saskatchewan Roughriders, two teams with essentially identical mascots. Despite these hiccups, the CFL expanded into the United States in 1993 with the Sacramento Gold Miners, who were originally supposed to be the San Antonio Texans. The eventual goal was a ten team division in America to tackle a ten team division in Canada. However, after the Baltimore Stallions won the Grey Cup in 1995, the American division shut down and the CFL has stayed in Canada ever since. Crossover is now limited to players from the CFL who made the Pro Bowl in the NFL like Jeff Garcia, Joe Horn, and Doug Flutie.