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The Canadian flag is displayed at centre field prior to a CFL game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Tim Hortons Field on June 14, 2025. Introduction On September 22, 2025, an earthquake in Toronto sent shockwaves across Canada. More than a year later, the aftershocks are still being felt. Stewart Johnston, who had only been commissioner of the Canadian Football League for five months at that point, rocked the foundations of the sport by announcing a litany of changes that not only affected the rulebook, but also the physical layout of the field itself. The proposed rule changes included: Starting in 2026: modified rouge team benches on opposite sidelines 35-second play clock double overtime mini-games followed by alternating two-point conversions to eliminate tie games Starting in 2027: shrinking the playing field from 110 yards long to 100 yards long moving the uprights from the goal line to the end line shrinking the end zone from 20 yards deep to 15 y...

CFL Commissioner Stewart Johnston and the league's Board of Governors want the public to believe that moving the uprights off the goal line and out of play in 2027 will open up the middle of the end zone, allowing teams to use more of the field to score. They are wrong, intentionally misleading, and being blatantly opaque about all the massive changes coming to the Canadian Football League next year. Using this video , I watched and catalogued every touchdown catch made within the scoring boundary (end zone) during the 2025 CFL season. I also turned that data into a graphic, similar to a baseball spray chart, to show the location of each one of those 134 catches. Ultimately, what I have put together effectively counters and negates Johnston's claims that the uprights are a hindrance to offences.  Before we get into the data, some notes: Ball must have been caught on or behind goal line. Balls caught outside the goal line and carried across are not counted. Does not account for...