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American football , referred to as football in the United States and Canada , and also known as gridiron , is a ___MASK32___ played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end . The offense , the team with control of the oval - shaped football , attempts to advance down the field by running with or passing the ball , while the team without control of the ball , the defense , aims to stop their advance and take control of the ball for themselves . The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs , or plays , or else they turn over the football to the opposing team ; if they succeed , they are given a new set of four downs . Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the opposing team ' s end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponent ' s goalposts for a field goal . The team with the most points at the end of a game wins . The Grey Cup is the name of both the championship game of the Canadian Football League ( CFL ) and the trophy awarded to the victorious team playing Canadian football . It is contested between the winners of the CFL ' s East and West Divisional playoffs and is one of Canadian television ' s largest annual sporting events . The ___MASK42___ have 16 championships , more than any other team . The latest , the 104th Grey Cup , took place in Toronto , Ontario , on November 27 , 2016 , when the Ottawa Redblacks defeated the Calgary Stampeders 39  33 in overtime . A sports league is a group of sports teams or individual athletes that compete against each other in a specific ___MASK32___ . At its simplest , it may be a local group of amateur athletes who form teams among themselves and compete on weekends ; at its most complex , it can be an international professional league making large amounts of money and involving dozens of teams and thousands of players . The ___MASK95___ are a professional Canadian football team based in Regina , Saskatchewan . The Roughriders play in the West Division of the Canadian Football League ( CFL ). The Canadian Football League ( CFL LCF ) is a professional sports league in Canada . The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football , a form of gridiron football closely related to American football . Its nine teams , which are located in nine separate cities , are divided into two divisions : the East Division , with four teams , and the West Division with five teams . As of 2016 , the league features a 20 - week regular season , which traditionally runs from late June to early November ; each team plays 18 games with at least two bye weeks . Following the regular season , six teams compete in the league ' s three - week divisional playoffs , which culminate in the late - November Grey Cup championship , the country ' s largest annual sports and television event . Leron Mitchell ( born November 24 , 1981 ) is a former professional Canadian football defensive back . He most last played in the Canadian Football League for the ___MASK95___ .