For once, the ball isn’t in Randy Ambrosie’s hands — neither the football nor the crystal ball. However, the Canadian Football League (CFL) commissioner is trying to remain optimistic without knowing what’s ahead for his league.
As the weeks go by, and events in Canada continue to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ambrosie is still hopeful there will be football in 2020.
But he also understands it’s out of his control. “My definition of ‘realistic’ is changing,” he said. “When we started and this whole crisis really hit home for all of us, you had these very definitive ideas of how you thought things would play out and this has been humbling, very, very humbling. “I think I’m speaking for Canadians from coast to coast that what we