Hee! So cool to discover a fellow female...uh...person with instincts. We'll have to get together and hash this whole thing out, someday. Maybe over a Grey Cup broadcast.

You hit the nail on the head re: Shoedad's scoffage. "They're not bad," he would say in the encouraging tone of a US president speaking of, well, Canada; "it's just they're not the big leagues. Every player on that field" - pointing at the Argos-Winnipeg broadcast I was trying to while away a not-Sunday with - "you can bet they wanna be where the big boys are. That's how you know you're a football player..." yada-yada-I'm-sure-you've-heard-it-all-before-cakes.

Given the quality of the scoffage, I consider it pretty amazing that I do actually really enjoy a CFL game from time to time. Partly because I love watching the passing game above all else (another reason to be a Packer fan; came into my fanhood just as Favre was coming into the league) and partly because, well, I'm from Toronto and not that into hockey. All those residual 'root, root, root for the home team' vibes have to go somewhere.
Besides which...I have always considered 'Blue Bombers' the loveliest team name in either league, if not all of professional sports.