The Canadian Football League has stepped it up in terms of ridiculous rulings in a desperate attempt to keep up with their Canadian brethren — the NHL. But this could be a landmark in stupidity we’re looking at. What happened prior the CFL draft is even worse than the NHL changing a rule MID-PLAYOFFS. It’s that bad.
Now, following in the NFL’s and NBA’s footsteps of stripping teams of first round picks for cheating (See: SpyGate), when the league found out that the Montreal Alouettes had violated salary cap rules by going over, the looked to punish them. Here’s where the problem and stupidity comes in.
Montreal had traded away their pick to Hamilton before the draft.
Now common sense would tell you that Hamilton is not the team that the league was trying to punish for breaking a rule, therefore they could keep the pick since they traded for it before it was stripped. No. Hamilton lost the pick.
I could go on an angry rambling about how dumb this league is but, the way I see it, why complain about a minor league football organization. It’s not like any of the guys could compete in the NFL.