Ah , nice Poe . For a moment I thought you were serious . <| sep |> I know I ' m in the minority and that a lot of Americans think bigger always means better . There are plenty of superior things that lose to their competitors due to many different factors such as size of market , availability of new resources players , who established in the various markets first , marketing and brand awareness , expansion ability within the markets they ' ve established themselves . Canada has an available audience one tenth the size of USA , they failed to expand to the USA before the NFL was established . Our climate limits the amount of players we can produce , many towns are either too small to support a high school team or too far to travel to compete with other teams regularly , or cannot afford covered fields so practice is limited to a small portion of the year . So many factors go into explaining why the NFL is financially more successful than the CFL that you can ' t base quality on just the audience size .