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[QUOTE="TexanMark, post: 3846161, member: 35"]
OX, you made me curious about the 20 yard end zones. Doing research it appears the CFL allowed teams to shoehorn in as best they could the field.  Many of the American fields were not exact.

From Wikipedia:
[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Mad_Dogs[/URL]

(This is kinda wild about the Liberty Bowl)
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The Liberty Bowl was not as well suited to the Canadian game, as the stands were very close to the field of play, making it difficult to reconfigure the field to CFL standards. As a result, even with the addition of [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AstroTurf']AstroTurf[/URL] cutouts to widen and lengthen the field, it was still narrower and shorter than all other CFL fields, including other US fields which were not regulation. In order to shoehorn even an approximation of a Canadian field onto the playing surface, the end zones became half-grass/half-Astroturf pentagons that were only nine yards long in the middle and seven yards long at the sidelines. CFL rules call for a 20-yard end zone, and no other stadium had end zones shorter than 15 yards. The stands jutted into the corners of the end zones, creating a clear safety hazard. In addition, the Liberty Bowl grounds crew had marked the field with [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard']33 inch yards[/URL].[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Mad_Dogs#cite_note-3'][3][/URL]
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