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The Canadian Football League is a small, “folksy” sports league when compared to major sports in North America, but the CFL isn’t a stranger to capitalist tendencies when it comes to dealing with its player work force. On a new episode of OffCourt hosts Abdul Malik (@socialistraptor) and Eytan Tobin (@RabbiDieHardman) breakdown the CFL collective bargaining agreement and its strange and not very player friendly living stipends and pensions plans and compare the average salaries in the CFL, the NFL and other major sports leagues and explore how these minimal salaries affect the finances of the various CFL teams.

Plus: a look at the off-season lives of CFL players and how the COVID shutdown has affected them this season, the pathway to the NFL from the CFL and how Canadian players have to diversify employment opportunities to supplement their salaries and why CFL Commissioner Randy Ambroise has weird mob boss energy.

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