Luke Links: The "Are you ready for some football, eh!" Edition

by Brad Wells on Jul 1, 2010 9:01 AM EDT in Luke Links

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For those of you who are tired of following futbol as a substitute for real football, NFL Network is offering you another international substitute to feed your fix until August: The Canadian Football League (CFL). That's right, it's Canuck football time, eh! NFL Network will broadcast 14 CFL games starting tonight with defending champion Montreal taking on Saskatchewan tonight. If you want a "Colts-related" reason to watch CFL games, just remember that the Colts have very strong ties to the CFL. Bill Polian once worked for the Montreal Alouettes, and current Colts player Sam Giguere is from Sherbrooke (just outside Montreal). Polian has does a lot of scouting of CFL players.

But, if Canadian football just isn't your thing (or you are like many others and do not get NFL Network), just keep telling yourself that training camp opens in exactly one month.

FROM THE SADDLE
Official Team News

John Oehser (Colts.com) talks with Antonio Johnson, who says the play of the d-line is a "team effort"
More Oehser, this time giving us some insight into back-up quarterback Curtis Painter

GREEN APPLES AND ROAD APPLES
Positive and Negative Analysis

Paul Kuharsky (ESPN) breaks down the safeties in the AFC South
John Oehser (Indy Football Report) has a series of 21 questions he will ask about the Colts between now and the start of the season. Questions one, two, and three are already posted, and they involve the Colts safeties, Donald Brown, and Bob Sanders
Brett Mock (Coltzilla) wonders whether Donald Brown will take on a bigger role with the team in 2010

OUTSIDE THE STABLE
Around the League

Chargers receiver Vincent Jackson is going to get suspended the first four games of the 2010 season
Titans receiver Kenny Britt might be a draft bust
Alfie Crow at Big Cat Country is reporting that the Jaguars will be at roughly the 5,000 mark for season ticket holders, which is (apparently) a big deal
The CFL will unveil HGH testing this year

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Canadian football =/= "Real" football.

FINALLY Jackson is being suspended…should have happened a while ago, if you ask me.

"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007

by peytonsthebest on Jul 1, 2010 11:31 AM EDT reply actions

agreed! and agreed!

darn good ’ol American Football is here yet……

may need shell out $50 just to watch old games…. and I wouuld be careful not to check out SB44…. btw, 44 in chinese is “double-dead” (dead dead, phonetically speaking but not the exact words) …. so maybe it is good luck that the Colts didn’t win that one…. just sayin….

If you see my smilieys, think of E.M.H. - our COLTs King of Smileys!

by Manning4ever on Jul 1, 2010 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions

Futbol is actually the original football.

You can’t say football is the “real” football, since both are completely different and not just small variations. But, whatever.
Can’t wait for kickoff!

"We’re only going to score 17 points? haha...OK" - Tom Brady
Last piece of Colts merch added to my collection: Riddell Authentic Revolution Helmet!.

by BlueMark1821 on Jul 1, 2010 5:07 PM EDT reply actions

I guess it depends on how you define "original"....

no arguments here that the European, especially the English, use of the word “football” refers to soccer 1st and foremost. As far as I know, American football actually originates from RUGBY…. so little connection to soccer/football/futbol.