The new stadiums, the Argos move to BMO Field. and the upgrades to BC Place and Commonwealth have given the CFL some really nice stadiums. Quite a change from even just 10 years ago. Thanks for covering our little football league!

My dad played in Montreal. His name is on the ring of Honour.

"I hear Canadians say that Winnipeg is cold, so it must be a whole different level of cold." I live in Winnipeg, I can confirm. Also IG Field is a really nice stadium. Every year when Winnipeg plays Saskatchewan, it's called the Banjo Bowl and it's probably more important than the Grey Cup to people in WPG and SSK.

No one mentioned how well you pronounced Saskatchewan so I will. Excellent job!

One other great thing about McMahon Stadium in Calgary is the tailgating. We're one of the few CFL teams to allow REAL tailgating. Hours before the games, fans pack the parking lots with barbecues, coolers, trailers, tents and buses.

As possibly the only Arkansas born American fan of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, I appreciate this vid!! LETS GO BLUE!!

"The Coffee Grounds." I've never heard it called that before, but I'm going to start now :)

For those who are watching later into this release window, the Edmonton Football Team has rebranded in time for the season, now going by the name "Edmonton Elks"

As a Canadian, thank you for making this video

Underneath the older stands in Ottawa, side with the flat roof, is a hockey arena. Home to the Ottawa 67's. Really wild interior for a hockey arena.

About Montreal Molson stadium, at night, you can see downtown with all tall buidings. Awsome place. Also, MTL is one of the oldest city in north america with alot of very old buildings from 1600-1700-1800

There’s a hockey arena underneath the stands in Ottawa. It’s home to the OHL’s Ottawa 67’s

I've been to Molson Stadium, and it was super cozy. Atmosphere was fun, and I sat close enough to the field where it almost felt like I was on the Alouettes' sideline.

Thanks for covering the CFL! Great video! Ottawa has maybe the most unique dual use stadiums ever, lots of history there too!

Thank you for doing this. I worked on the rebuild of TD place in Ottawa.

The Canadian Football League once had two teams nicknamed the Roughriders. Even the players got confused when the Roughriders used to play the Rough Riders.

That first shot of Tim Horton's Field at 25 seconds, I can see the house I used to live in in 1977. The high school at the top used to be a baseball field, the corner to the upper right is the corner of King Street East and Melrose Ave. South, my house was 3rd on the left, 11 Melrose. We would make money on football nights by renting out our driveway, it held 5 cars.

"The roofs are crinkle cut, to allow for more flavor and crunch" Hmm yes this roof is quite flavorful well done Winnipeg

You have GOT to be one of the few people who've noticed the similarities between the football stadiums in Winnipeg and Seattle! Good on you!

You’re voice is so calm. Also cool to see that you recognize the CFL I’m from canada and you gonna get a sub.

Re: TD Place in Ottawa. The side that is completely straight and parallels the sideline is left over from the old Frank Clair Stadium that the Rough Riders/Renegades played in. The grand stand got a makeover, as originally it was a two deck grand stand whereas now it has a very small "lower deck" at the very front closest to the field and then above that the top 95% of the grandstand is the "second deck." That used to be a two deck grandstand with a much more even split between upper and lower deck. But the main structure is from the old stadium, and you can tell because it doesn't have that curve. The grandstand on the other side could not be salvaged and updated like the other one; it was condemned and torn down. Because it was built from scratch, it has the new style where it curves around the field so that the seats on the far ends of the grandstand are on an inward angle so that you can see more of the field head-on before you have to start turning your head to see what's going on at the other end.

Montreal and Quebec City are full of European architecture. Both are really nice

My rankings 1 mosaic 2 IGF 3 bc place 4 commonwealth 5 bmo field 6 Tim hortons field 7 Td place 8 percival molston 9 McMahon

TD Place in Ottawa (or I think I will always call it Lansdowne..lol) can have almost any kind of sports and entertainment event. No end zone stands works. One side has condos (yeah, Like those are cheap.. NOT) and the other is where the Great Lawns are. TD Place has had music concerts, music festivals, it is also the home to the Fury's. Parking is a nightmare most of the time, but usually find something when I have to work there.. It is really a all in one.

Beautiful looking stadiums

Thanks for doing this Go Ticats

Dude I love your channel...another great video ! Thanks

I think a few of the stadiums in the CFL try to be open ended to avoid anyone thinking they have a bad seat, with such a long distance from the other end zone. That said, the old stadium in Hamilton (Ivor Wynne Stadium) did have seating behind one end zone.

The key aspect you missed about Canadian stadiums is that unlike US stadiums, they aren't plopped into the middle of Sahara-class parking lots.

Nice video. I've one stadiums postcards collection, it's great to see your videos. I enyoed a lot.

I've never heard Tim Hortons Field called The Coffee Grounds, but I have heard it called The Doughnut Box. Great place to watch a game

The world’s fastest cow in Calgary is better than most Super Bowl halftime shows. He’s awesome

Cool video. Would like to visit some of these one day. I have been to 37 college football stadiums in my life. Most in the SEC. But it would be cool to go see some of these.

Awesome video. Its great to see the CFL getting recognized.

Looking forward to your Australian football stadium reviews.

Thanks for the content. Been to one of these stadiums

Thanks for including CFL!

The Tiger Cats vs TiCats to save time then droning on.... and the IG Field roof being crinkle cut for more flavour had me dying! :D

Let's find fans of CFL teams from exceptional (as in, unusual) places. I'll start: Roughriders fan from England here!

The Regina stadium looks best, but Winnipeg's a close second.

McMahon Stadium was built in 100 days back in 1960. It was a little smaller then, but I'm sure they didn't expect it to last over 60 years when it was built.

Nice to see you did the CFL

The reason so many stadiums do not have endzone seating is because it costs the same to build as sideline seats, but the end zone seats sell for less.

Regina and Winnipeg are at the top of the class for cfl stadiums

Cool !!! Have wondered aboot the Hamilton stadium on my last visit to Hammer-town !

I think you forgot something important about the TD Place Stadium on the 2:56 mark. Underneath the north grandstand is a 9,500 seat arena that is currently used by the OHL's Ottawa 67's, the CEBL's Ottawa Blackjacks, and used to be home to the NHL's Ottawa Senators.

Awesome video , i had to subscribe after this

i love the music you choose for these vids.

Thank you for making this. Go Riders Go!

Fact. My dad big John Toews, was the grounds keeper for Sir John Franklin community club, which happened to be the Blue bombers practice field in River heights Winnipeg. Dad noticed the players getting injured by the wire mounted triangular corner flags. At home in East Kildonan around 1967 I watched dad stuff a rectangular piece of foam rubber into a carefully sewn red rectangular bag. This was stapled to a 4"square piece of plywood which sat flush on the grass with a12"nail through the ply and into the ground. See them red rectangular corner end flag markers on every field today Thank you big John Toews raised Mennonite farmer in southern Manitoba then moved to Winnipeg Son Vern here

Piffles Taylor didn't spend years in the Kaiser's POW camp, lose an eye, and continue playing with a glass eye that he once had to spend fifteen minutes searching for on the field for you to call his house "Old Mosaic Stadium"

Saskatchewan could probably have used a 40,000 seat stadium. They have the best fans in the league!

Please take a look at nascar tracks, I’d love to see your take on them, even if you don’t watch it.

Taylor Field was so fun to go to and its a shame there are less seats now at Rider games

Can you do a video on the stadiums of the LIGA MX, some very interesting variety?

Nice review!

Viewed from my home in Los Angeles. Isn't there supposed to be a 10th team added to the league in Halifax,? Where does that stand?

Have you noticed that most of the CFL clubs share a stadium with the local university team? With the exception of Ottawa (hosts the annual Rivalry Game, the Panda Game), Toronto and BC?

B.C. Lions play in Vancouver in case anyone wasn't sure. He probably should have memtioned that but still a decent video.

The big CFL field length and deep end zones do make end zone seats kind of bad. I actually went to a game in Winnipeg's new place, and had end zone seats. Not great. Play sometimes was hard to follow at the other end of the field.

Are u planning on doing a video on the Canadian Premier League Stadiums?

You should def. Show the stadiums in latinamerican leagues! Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, etc.

The largest stadium is the Montreal Olympic stadium at 60,000+, where the Als play big playoff games and where Montreal-hosted Grey Cups are held, but since that is only an occasional venue I guess it doesn't really count? Winnipeg is the coldest major city (100k people or more) in Canada mostly due to it also being the windy-est city in Canada in winter. The Hamilton stadium is nicknamed the "Donut Box". I have no idea where "coffee grounds" came from, but it isn't from there. Might be what other teams' fans call it since the Cats are known as a hard to play team; not always the most skilled or winningest, but hardest-hitting meat grinder of a football team in the league. Kinda like the city they call home.

A lot of character in this mix of stadiums-especially Montreals. I have season tickets in Sask, that stadium is unreal for a CFL pad. Only negative is the roof fabric absorbs noise, so it's not near as loud as it could be. Love how Winnipeg designed the metal roof to reflect noise back on the playing field. Calgary is due for an upgrade, and Edmonton/BC need to consider building a smaller more intimate stadium. No need for 55k seats in the CFL. All in my opinion of course.

Fun Fact: Winnipeg's IG Field was built without the initially inflatable roof because it would then be legally classified as an indoor entertainment venue, which would have conflicted with long term contract commitments that the city and province have with the NHL Arena

Where the new Mosaic Stadium is amazing, my favourite Roughrider memories will always be from the old “Taylor Field”.

Go Redblacks!

It should be noted Tim Hortons Field is only 1.5km from the first the Tim Hortons. It should also be noted it sits on the site of Ivor Wynne Stadium which was built their originally in 1930.

I’m happy to be celebrating my 6 year work anniversary at TD Place :)

And there will actually be a CFL season in 2021! Go Riders!

Het Jordan Clarke! Why must we adhere to the NFL? CFL football is totally unique. Let's keep it that way!

Fun fact that you forgot to mention: TD Place Stadium has TD Place Arena under the seats on the left side.

Cool video. Go riders!

Hamilton, Ottawa, Toronto, even Montreal and Calgary. Why do so many stadiums hate behind the goal/end zone seats??

Hope these CA cities & stadiums can venue for future soccer matches like CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Lions and Bombers have the best stadiums and there are end zone seats. Yay! Last Bombers game I went to it was 20 degrees when the game started and dropped to 0 when the sun went down, all I had on was a t-shirt and cut-off shorts. Holy crap was it cold!!

Winnipeg's has nice architecture.

a 9 minute video of some bloke roasting the CFL and canada as a whole, meanwhile all the canadians in the comments are like "love it, 10/10"

I believe the Montreal Alouettes still play their home playoff games at "the Big O" (yes, that's what they call it...the insane 1970s boondoggle that is Olympic Stadium). So technically there could've been another stadium added to this list. Oh, and I live in Winnipeg, and yes...it's cold. But that's kind of a cliche at this point. Winnipeg isn't actually THAT cold. Compared to most other Canadian cities (with the exception of Regina, Saskatoon and Edmonton, which are pretty much the same as Winnipeg, winter-wise), our winter starts a bit earlier, ends a bit later, and gets a bit colder...it's no big deal (I've lived in other places in Canada, winter sucks almost everywhere). In my entire life (going on 40 years), the winter nighttime air temperature in Winnipeg has dropped below -40 °C just 3 times. There's places in Russia (including some cities) that see lows under -40 °C multiple times a year. This year, there were only ~10 days (a couple in late January, the rest early/mid February) that I consider intolerably cold (nighttime lows below -30 °C, wind chills sometimes dipping into the -40s and maybe a couple times into the -50s) which is maybe _a bit better than normal_ (we generally get a maximum of 3 weeks of brutally-cold winter weather each year). March was pretty good, April was a bit cool (not ridiculous though...only 1 snowstorm which was not too bad, melted quickly)...and May is starting off pretty cool as well, but I remember May of 2002, which was maybe the most brutal May I've ever seen (we got snow more than once; on 17 nights, the temperature dropped below freezing; and the mean temperature for the first 20 days of May was just 5 °C, which is more than 5 degrees below normal). Usually we're out of the minuses (with respect to nighttime lows...daytime highs generally cycle in and out of minuses in March and early April, before departing for good in mid-April at the latest) after the first week of May, and we don't see them again until September. But from mid-May to mid-September you can count on tremendous weather. Not a lot of rain, plenty of blue skies, maybe a couple weeks of excessive humidity making it uncomfortable, but far less than a place like Toronto or Montreal experiences. Our summers are great, our winters suck; we're the sunniest city in Canada (basically year-round), but also one of the windiest. You take the good with the bad here.

can confirm, after half time in any game in winnipeg its pretty damn cold

Hope to see one in Halifax

We call it “The Dump” in Calgary…

I’m American and I like Canadian Football 🏈.

Just a quibble: U Sports, the national university football league, has three times as many teams as the CFL. An excellent video, though. And few people follow university football, anyway.

Great video, thanks for bringing attention to the CFL. GO RIDERS GO

I never really noticed how almost all CFL stadiums have at least one open end. I know for BMO Field it's because it was made for soccer which has a shorter field of play than Canadian football, and Toronto FC tends to have temporary stands put in for some matches that get removed for the Argos. I don't really know why this is the case for other stadiums, especially ones that were purposefully built for the CFL (like the Coffee Grounds)

Old mosaics stadium looks a lot like mid division English soccer stadiums. With additions added on over time as they drew more people. Rather then completely new stadiums every other decade like you might see in most American or Canadian cities. More attention placed on fan viewing with each addition rather than built all at once.

Please next rank soccer stadiums in Asia or specific regions like South East Asia, East Asia...

Fun fact, McMahon stadium was built in just over 100 days. If you e ever been there you’ll see why, it’s purely concrete and steel 😅

And, as everyone knows, the Baltimore Stallions are the only team outside Canada to win a CFL championship. But when the Ravens came to Baltimore, the Stallions moved to Montreal, which, for some inexplicable reason, at the time no longer had a CFL team. So it was a win-win-win, I guess.

Green is the colour, football is the game, we’re all together, winning is our aim, Saskatchewan Roughriders is our name. ✌️

We would never have a covered stadium in Winnipeg. Football is played outdoors!

One thing that is great about McMahon stadium is the site lines There are no bad seats that way

Back in the day, I always bet on the RoughRiders, because they had twice the chance of winning as any other team. Sometimes they had a 100% chance of winning, unless the game ended in a tie.

It would be cool if the NFL went to one of these stadiums for one of their international games

A little trivia about McMahon… there’s a silver dollar in each support column. Tossed in when they poured the concrete.

Top three coolest 1.lions 2.roughriders 3.elks/eskimos

Ig stadium is sick

Wouldn't USports be larger by number of teams?

I miss the ole SkyDome and the old Winnipeg Stadium.