Most anyone could tell you that the University of Tennessee has had a long, successful tradition of producing players who have gone on to have great success in the NFL.
Indianapolis quarterback Peyton Manning stands among the former Vols on NFL rosters as arguably the most famous and accomplished athlete in UT's storied athletic history.
But Tennessee players aren't limited to the NFL; some have taken their skills further north and play in the Canadian Football League.
Condredge Holloway enjoyed a CFL Hall of Fame career in the 1970s and 1980s at quarterback, while linebacker Ray Nettles starred in the 1970s being inducted into the CFL Hall of Fame in 2005.
Tennessee has five current CFL players, three of which are active in two-time all-star and two-time Grey Cup champion Jeremaine Copeland (Calgary), and rookies Jonathan Hefney (Winnipeg) and Demonte Bolden (Hamilton).
Jonatanan Brown (Toronto) is a four-time all-star defensvie lineman who is on injured reserve, and offensive lineman Albert Toeaina is on Hamilton's practice squad.
All of the SEC schools except Georgia have at least one player in the CFL, with UT's five matching honors with South Carolina.
The CFL game is much like the NFL game, though a wider (65 yards to the NFL's 53.3 yards) and longer (110 yards, with 20 yard end zones to 100 yards and 10 yard end zones) make for a more open, pass-happy style of game.
The bigger field is offset by CFL offenses only getting three downs to the NFL's four, and there are 12 CFL players allowed on the field at a time to the NFL's 11. The 19-week,m 18-game regular season and its playoffs run from mid-June until early November.
Aside from some other subtle rules and scoring variations, the game is largely the same, though the CFL does not approach offering the kind of money the NFL can. Quarterbacks, predictably, rank among the highest paid with the best approaching $1 million a year
This is an artible by Mike Griffith via Go Vols Extra.com
