Canadian high school football?

[Darth Shoju]

I'm a little confused about your 3-1 score. Are you referring to football (soccer) or american-style football? If you refer to the latter, a safety is worth 2pts and a field goal is worth 3pts. Did you mean to list the score as 3-2? Or am I just too slow from not drinking enough caffiene?

In Canadian rules football you get a point for kicking the ball through the endzone. I'd say that the missed field goals he references still went through the endzone and thus gained the team 1 point.

 

[Darth Shoju]

At high school level? None. University and college football is pretty popular (at least in the towns with a team at that level) and gets coverage outside of its hometown sometimes (like championship games and such). Really Canada is more 'pro' level oriented (except the CHL - that has become extremely popular of late - shame NHL has pushed it off the air around here).

I'd say that depends on your definition of 'popular'. In Winnipeg, the local t.v. sports usually makes some reference to high-school volleyball, hockey and football. I've heard somewhere that soccer is the sport with the most amateur players in Canada (yes, we have soccer moms up here too...in winter they become hockey moms). At my high school hockey, volleyball and soccer were the three most popular sports, with basketball a distant 4th (which happened to be the sport I played throughout highschool after quitting hockey; in fact I played it all-year round). I'd say baseball and track were tied for 5th most popular. Wrestling was a big thing in our highschool, as was football, but at some point in the 80's both those activities died out. Curling was an extremely popular sport in my town but the high-school didn't really have much to do with it.



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[Chunklets]

In Canadian rules football you get a point for kicking the ball through the endzone. I'd say that the missed field goals he references still went through the endzone and thus gained the team 1 point.

Yes, that was it exactly. There wasn't even a successful FG in that game.

 

[was]

In Canadian rules football you get a point for kicking the ball through the endzone. I'd say that the missed field goals he references still went through the endzone and thus gained the team 1 point.

Thanks for the update. That's a little different.

 

[Impeesa]

I'm pretty sure it exists. It doesn't carry the reality-warping importance that it supposedly does in the US, though. I had friends in high school who played football, but I'm pretty sure it was city league and not school teams. Either way, I know my school didn't have a team.. we mostly cared about the basketball and rugby teams. Then again, I went to "the redneck school" in a redneck city, we may have been biased towards the rugby (even our girls' rugby team was feared).

--Impeesa--

 

[devilbat]

I went to High School in the States for a year. I played High School Football there, and it was completely incomparable to Canadian High School Football.

In the High School I went to south of the border, football players were mini celebrities. The games were broadcast on the radio, strangers were always talking to you if you were wearing the jersey. It was awesome.

In Canada, nobody cared. Except maybe for the girlfriends and your parents.

In Canadian rules football you get a point for kicking the ball through the endzone.

Or downing the ball in the endzone prior to offensice plays. For example on an interception, missed field goal, punt return, kick off return or fumble recovery. The point is called a rouge.

 

[Arnwyn]

So what sports do they care about other then hockey?

As others have noted: at the high school level - none.

I've heard soccer's popular but that was on tv.

Soccer is not popular as a spectator sport in Canada. (Sure, there are patches throughout the country where some people are fanatics, but you'll find that everywhere with every sport). Mainstream - nobody watches soccer in Canada. (Though loads of kids play it, because it's cheap.)

 

[mojo1701]

I've heard soccer's popular but that was on tv.

In certain ethnic groups. One of the Polish halls (there's two) advertises in the church (that they're associated with; i.e. Polish) bulletin about upcoming games, barbecues, etc. Their games were usually against another town's ethnic team.

 

[LostSoul]

So what sports do they care about other then hockey? I've heard soccer's popular but that was on tv.

In my high school, it was rugby and soccer. Football was probably 4th, behind basketball. We did have a team though (mixed-gender). They didn't offer high school hockey.

More people play soccer than hockey. I played year-round (indoors from October through to March). The new year's tournament was always hell.

 

[ragboy]

I'm pretty sure it exists. It doesn't carry the reality-warping importance that it supposedly does in the US, though. -

I went to High School in Texas and football IS REALITY. If you've seen Friday Night Lights, that's how football was revered in my school, except that we never won a game...or rarely, anyway.