{"id":338531,"date":"2025-12-11T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/338531\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T07:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:20:11","slug":"cfl-2026-schedule-kicks-off-in-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/338531\/","title":{"rendered":"CFL 2026 schedule kicks off in Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Football League has released its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \u201dnofollow\u201d\">2026 schedule<\/a>, and the season will start in Hamilton on June 4th when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticats.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \u201dnofollow\u201d\">Tiger-Cats<\/a> host Montreal. 2026 will also bring three changes to the CFL, including a modified rouge, a new 35-second play clock, and team benches on opposite sides of the field. Ticats legend Simoni Lawrence sat down with Rick to break it all down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Football League has released its 2026 schedule, and the season will start in Hamilton on June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-338531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}