A few players have choosen the CFL in the past over the NFL. A few reasons are if they were offered a larger contract and for early entry if their NCAA eligibility had been taken away (poor grades). One of the greatest RB's of all time Herschel Walker choose the USFL over the NFL (so did Reggie White and Jim Kelly). It was strictly monetary.

As for the Bills playing in Canadia, I think its fine. Some people get caught up in the whole there shouldn't be games outside the U.S. thing. That is stupid. Think of it like this:1. the NFL is actually a private corporation 2. In being a Inc., the NFL has this crazy idea that they should profit as much as possible 3. The NFL has just about reached its saturation point on U.S. soil (L.A. wants another team but maybe they should have gone to games when they had two) 4. In trying to increase market share the U.S. is targeting large populous areas in which we share borders or customs (I.E. Mexico, Canada and England) 4. the best way to increase interest in these areas is to give them a top rated product (NFL rejects just don't draw the hype like the stars produce, I don't blame them, I love football but I wouldn't pay to go watch a washed up Lawerence Phillips play) 5. The crazy fade called a global enconomy has U.S. born corporations trying to increase market share boy going to recently open countries with growing middle classes and in need for their products (I.E. China, India: Look at it from the Walmart and McDonalds perspectives: theres about 2-4 billion ppl in those two countries, even if half of them eat burgers (in India's case McChicken's) that still a ton of burgers.

So the Bills playing a game in a foriegn city that you could spit from one of the skyscrapers in it and hit U.S. soil isn't an attack on the U.S. game or against the Buffalo Bills. Its just the NFL's way of garnishing more foriegn market share. In terms of globalization American Football is the least poplular of the 4 main sports that we have in our country. Baseball has a lot of foriegn born players from (japan, Dominican, Mexico, Etc), Basketball (Every team has at least one Eastern European player on it and Hockey (we're lucky we have enough players to form an olympic team, most clubs are comprised of Nordic Eastern European and Canadian players).

So you see the NFL is in dire need to Globalize to gain Market share. It is playing catch up to the other big 3 sports. If anyone contests this just look at the NBA and Yao Ming. He is one of the biggests cash cows they have. Did MJ ever have 1 billion ppl tune in to watch him live at 2 am? It really is just a money game. We just let our passions for the game hide that most of the time. I do the same just as much as anyone. Its hard not to when I ve played or worked in football since 3rd grade.