{"id":410367,"date":"2026-01-15T06:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/410367\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:55:09","slug":"cfl-leaning-towards-playing-regular-season-through-2028-los-angeles-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/410367\/","title":{"rendered":"CFL leaning towards playing regular season through 2028 Los Angeles Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Graphic: 3DownNation (Photos: Jeff Vinnick | LA 2028 | CFL)<\/p>\n

The Canadian Football League has discussed its regular season schedule for 2028 when the Summer Olympics take place in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I was going to say where we are leaning, particularly for the 2028 schedule, it\u2019s that we\u2019ll play through the Olympics. We will talk that through again, but if there was a leaning right now from the room and certainly from the league office, it\u2019s\u00a0let\u2019s play right through and manage our clubs and our players accordingly,\u201d CFL commissioner Stewart Johnston said from the league\u2019s winter meetings in Calgary.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have more conversations to have with the Players\u2019 <\/a>Association<\/a>. That timing is dependent on how those conversations go. I know in speaking with the Players\u2019 Association, they also are motivated\u00a0because the players do want to be a part of this\u00a0if they can be. My hope\u00a0is that we will have\u00a0if not all details settled, at least the ones that we have control over,\u00a0prior to the start of this season.\u201d<\/p>\n

The opening ceremony for the 2028 Olympics is set for July 14 and the event will run through July 30, which coincides with the backend of the CFL\u2019s second regular-season month. With the crossover in the three-down league schedule, there are logistics to work out, especially after the board of governors unanimously approved\u00a0players being available to p<\/a>articipate in the <\/a>Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat, of course, comes with a lot of lead up. We had a very good discussion on the various aspects, including maximizing\u00a0CFL participation. Players\u00a0need time to attend camps, adjust to flag football, and\u00a0practice. How many players per CFL team do we think is the right number? How the schedule is going to work? We\u00a0will be in midseason while that tournament\u00a0takes place in July of 2028,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a great discussion, talked about a number\u00a0of options. We are going to pull those together once we have further rules committee meetings, further management council meetings, and ultimately our board meeting in March. We expect before the 2026 season starts, we\u2019ll have a number of those details ironed out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flag football will make its Olympic debut at LA28 with a six-team tournament, featuring 10-player rosters and five-on-five play at Exposition Park Stadium. The Summer Games flag football men\u2019s and women\u2019s tournaments will take place from July 15-22.<\/p>\n

For what it\u2019s worth, reigning CFL Most Outstanding Player Nathan Rourke was uncertain if he\u2019s the best quarterback for Canada\u2019s flag football team<\/a>. It seems as though he could be the top choice, which might mean the B.C. Lions playing meaningful games without the team\u2019s starting QB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graphic: 3DownNation (Photos: Jeff Vinnick | LA 2028 | CFL) The Canadian Football League has discussed its regular…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[166835,166836,11137,2602,903,49,48,7028,521,522,520,172752,172753,32478,172754,6381,1522,172755,11139,4963,95709,82,84996,115674,772,183],"class_list":["post-410367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-3down","tag-3downnation","tag-b-c-lions","tag-bc-lions","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-cfl-mop","tag-cfl-most-outstanding-player","tag-la","tag-la28","tag-lions","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-oympics","tag-nathan-rourke","tag-olympics","tag-rourke","tag-sports","tag-stewart-johnston","tag-summer-olympics","tag-united-states","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410367","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=410367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}