{"id":742683,"date":"2026-06-17T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/742683\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:01:16","slug":"retired-sociology-professor-bibby-sees-definite-advantages-for-cfl-returning-to-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/742683\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired sociology professor Bibby sees definite advantages for CFL returning to U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Reginald Bibby, a retired University of Lethbridge sociology professor and author, suggests in the appendix of his book The Canadian Transformation: 1975-2025 that the CFL should expand into four American states that border existing Canadian franchises.<\/p>\n<p>Bibby feels the move could have many positive returns for the league, which had U.S. franchises from 1993 to1995 before reverting back to its all-Canadian format in 1996. They include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boost CFL interest in both Canada and the U.S., making it more attractive to American television networks and potential investors south of the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Existence of suitable stadiums already in U.S. cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Reginald Bibby, a retired University of Lethbridge sociology professor and author, suggests in the appendix of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-742683","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\/742683","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=742683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}