The NFL should merge with the CFL (Canadian Football League) if it is looking to expand

Alright we're in the final round of the debate so let me wrap this up. Many of con's responses were not even related to the original resolution so I went ahead and responded only to those that were:1) Differences in play style between the NFL and the CFL"The ABA was in a financial crisis and the NBA simply absorbed them"The point still stands though that leagues under the same sport can merge even if both leagues have starkly different playing rules. The AFL and the NFL were also financially stabel when those merged into the NFL, so the same could also happen between the NFL and the CFL. "Except the CFL isn't in dire need for a merger"You don't need to be in dire need for a merger in order to be open to the idea of one. .. See previous point. "I doubt the NFL merger will even bother implenting or adhering to half the rules in the CFL if a merger were to happen. ""One,you dont know that, and two, the NBA and the ABA literally did exactly that when they merged, so your claim suggesting otherwise is once again worthless. "This statement is ludicrous as PRO implies Canadian teams aren't on the skill levels as the American teams. "Con 2 seconds later:"And because of that the CFL is deemed a "second-rate" league that will never be on par with the NFL as it only harbors "rejects". Michael Sam strengthens that bias. "Seems that Con cannot remember what his opinion on the talent level of the CFL even is. 2) Balancing of divisions"having a pro-football team in Portland generate a massive fanbase and profit there while establishing a rivalry with the Seahawks, ensuing large amounts of profit there. "But THAT WOULD CREATE UNBALANCED DIVISIONS. If you just create one or two teams in one or two places, that would cause for the divisions in the NFL to become unbalanced since all the teams in the NFl are currently evenly divided into 8 divisions of four teams each. Adding one or two more franchises would unbalance current divisions, but a merger with the CFL avoids this problem because then the NFL is bringing in enough teams to add to each division equally, preventing any imbalance from occurring. 3) Weather in Canada"The Mid-Atlantic, New England and PNW also experience frigid weather from Dec-Feb. What about them? What would their scheduling be? "That would be the job of the NFL and the CFL to work out. This isn't a Q&A session Con, you're supposed to be arguing for your side of the debate. The NFL and the CFL could agree to move the season to earlier in the year to avoid the winter months, schedule away games during the coldest parts of winter so that the Canadian teams would be in the US at the time, the NFL and the CFL along with the Canadian government could convert some stadiums into dome stadiums. .. There are numerous possibilities that can be pursued. "And who will pay for them (dome stadiums) anyway? The CFL teams? The richest teams in the CFL are worth 20x less than the Bills which are just worth under 900m. Stadium costs peak in the hundred millions anyway"The NFL makes BILLIONS of dollars annually. Chipping in a little of that income combined with the Canadian government pitching in would certainly be able to cover at least a majority of the expenses needed to make Canadian stadiums more hospitable during the winter months. CFL stadiums usually average 20,000 to 40,000 people, making them very small compared to NFL stadiums which average 60,000 to 80,000, literally twice the size of CFL stadiums. The cost of converting some of those stadiums into dome stadiums would therefore not be as expensive as one would think, especially since some of the CFL teams already HAVE dome stadiums. . https://en.wikipedia.org...https://en.wikipedia.org...Plus, converting a small stadium into a dome stadium would be far less costly than building an entirely new stadium from scratch, which is important to remember because this solution doesn't propose building new stadiums, just upgrading already existing ones comparitively small than what we normally think of when we think of NFL stadiums. =================================================================================List of arguments con flat out dropped, ignored, or failed to defeat:1 - Con didn't dispute that a CFL merger would allow the NFL to move one of the worse CFL teams to LA and solve the LA team issue2 - Con fails to acknowledge that a CFL merger, unlike an expansion of 1 or 2 teams, avoids there being an imbalance of teams in NFL divisions3 - Con drops the point that the CFL already has staff and stadiums in operation where expanding into new cities would require starting completely from scratch4 - Con ignores how literally every other major sport in the US has teams located in Canada with no problems being caused by it5 - Con fails to address that A CFL merger would bring CFL fans into the NFL fanbase, which would outnumber any potential number of fans brought in by just making new teams in one or two large cities, thus making the CFL merger idea preferable for the NFL in terms of trying to bring in a wider audience to the NFL. 6 - Con refuses to accept that other major leagues have been able to merge together despite differences in rules/play, meaning that the NFL and the CFL could do the same7 - Con fails to adequately reason why the NFL should be limited to the US like he claimed in the first round when every other major sport in the US has teams in Canada8 - Con fails to justify an alternative type of expansion for the NFL that should be pursued instead of a merger with the CFL9 - There are numerous ways that the NFL-CFL merger can get around the issue of the season being during the frigid winter months, such as moving the season to earlier in the year, investing in dome stadiums, or having the Canadian teams play most of their away games during the harshest months of the winter. 10 - The NFL itself merged with the AFL in the 1970's, they could certainly and plausibly do the same with the CFL today. ==========================================================It is for the reasons stated above that I affirm that the NFL should merge with the CFL if the NFL is looking to expand.