While some Inuit have expressed support for the team’s use of the term Eskimo, others say they find the term offensive and outdated. The use of the term tends to be more heavily favoured through the western Arctic. The etymology of the word remains disputed.

The Calgary Stampeders have won eight Grey Cups, most recently in 2018, from their appearances in 17 Grey Cup Championship games.

The Elks were founded in 1949 as the Edmonton Eskimos and have won the Grey Cup championship fourteen times (including a three-peat between 1954 and 1956 and an unmatched five consecutive wins between 1978 and 1982), most recently in 2015.

Naulaq LeDrew, an Inuit community elder and artist based in Toronto, is happy Edmonton’s CFL team will no longer be known as Eskimos. It’s not because she feels the word is a derogatory term. For Iglorliorite, the word Eskimo has always been offensive, but she says not all Inuit feel the same way.

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Edmonton Elks

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A recent IMI brand study found the CFL to be the third biggest sports brand in Canada with one in two Canadians following the league at some level. The only two teams like that in the CFL are the BC Lions and the Ottawa Redblacks, the latest to enter the league.

But the CFL had an identity crisis with its US expansion, which literally alienated many fans of the game here. It’s also had a history of mismanagement in Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, and Montreal, where the teams weren’t well received despite a large population.

While Canada has their own football league – the CFL, statistics are beginning to show that the NFL is rapidly rising in popularity throughout the country, with many regions now watching more NFL than they do CFL. This shows that the NFL is indeed gaining an ever-growing presence in Canada, despite home loyalties.

While many Americans say they follow the CFL, it has not translated into big viewership numbers. (Canada’s CFL coverage on TSN averaged 660,000 viewers during last year’s regular season.) ESPN says a third of its televised CFL games were on Sundays, which put them in direct competition with the vastly more popular NFL.

If you want to watch the games in the United States, games will be carried on ESPN’s networks or streamed on ESPN+.

Originally Answered: Could the top college football team consistently beat the worst NFL team? No. Another way to look at it: Take an all-star team of college players vs the worst NFL team.