History of African Americans in the Canadian Football League I probably wouldn t have been motivated to get off my ass and create History of African Americans in the Canadian Football League if it weren t for the whole kerfuffle about the player category and a subsequent discussion with DoubleBlue As it turns out there was a preexisting orphaned article under a different name which I have merged So I do owe you and DoubleBlue thanks I think we now have a very useful start article on this important part of CFL and Black history