Eh, Happy Canada Day

The Roundup would like to wish a happy Canada Day to Booster Vice President Jim Leish and any other hosers out there.

More importantly, we would like to point out that the NFL Network is broadcasting what Jim calls "real football", and no, he's not referring to the Women's World Cup (soccer).

Rather he means the Canadian Football League, which kicked off its season last night with an exciting 30-26 victory by the Montreal Alouettes over the British Columbia Lions.  By the way, did you know that "Alouette" means skylark in french?  It does.  Thus the children's song Alouette, gentille Alouette translates to:

Little skylark, lovely little skylark
Little lark, I'll pluck your feathers off
I’ll pluck the feathers off your head
I’ll pluck the feathers off your head
Off your head - off your head
Little lark, little lark
O-o-o-o-oh

And then subsequent verses of:

Off your beak
Off your neck
Off your back
Off your wings
Off your feet
Off your tail

Anyway, if you'd rather watch football, such as it is, rather than trying to figure out how to pluck feathers off a Skylark's beak, check out the NFL Network's CFL schedule.  (It may be the only pro football we have this year - eh?)

Then you can have an all-American Fourth of July weekend, as will The Roundup, watching soccer from Germany, tennis from England, and football from Canada.