Screengrab via ESPN
The Canadian Football League is clearly a tier below the NFL when comparing the overall quality of play and depth of top-level football talent spread across its rosters.But there is one critically important area of the sport which CFL teams and players seem to be head and shoulders above their American counterparts, and it’s obviously the most significant—the ability to throw down the type of touchdown celebration that football heroes are made of and viral legends are born.While the NFL just softened its stance on said conduct this season, the CFL and its players have had the concept, creativity, technique, and execution of elite-level TD celebrations nailed down for years, but the limbo-style celly put together by Diontae Spencer and a couple of his Ottawa Redblack teammates after a first-quarter touchdown strike on Sunday was simply in a stratosphere of its own (below is another angle of it).
The Redblacks saw their season come to an end with a 31-20 loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders in their divisional semifinal matchup, but this celebration will likely remain the GOAT for quite some time—which is really all that matters here.