Canadian Football Is Running Out Of Plays

Since the Baltimore Stallions began playing in the Canadian Football League last year, they have been the winningest expansion franchise in the history of professional sports. In their first two seasons, the Stallions took an incredible 75% of their regular-season games. And on Nov. 19, they played in their second straight Grey Cup, the CFL's answer to the Super Bowl, and won it--a first for a U.S.-based team.

But winning isn't everything--or, a wag might say, anything--if you're an American team in the Canadian Football League. The league's ambitious drive into the U.S. seems to be coming to grief, and a National Football League expansion into the Toronto market would threaten the league's existence.