Regardless of exactly how facetious this is, it's stupid. If Menzies is merely sarcastically criticizing the CFL's yards in order to reversibly complain about the metric system, that's dumb (and not particularly funny or important), but if he's actually serious in saying the league should switch to metres, that might be the most idiotic comment a media member has ever made about the CFL. Given the strong history of examples there, that's saying a lot.
The particularly sad thing here isn't that Menzies is demonstrating his substantial ignorance and his desire for baiting people, though, but rather that he has a prominent platform to do so. Menzies is welcome to his views, but a five-minute rant about the CFL using yards instead of metres would be more appropriate on a shaky YouTube video shot in a basement with a cellphone than on a TV network which sees itself as so important that it's applying for mandatory distribution despite only grabbing 0.1 per cent of the Canadian viewing audience so far. (However, perhaps it's very appropriate for a network that prides itself on insulting viewers' intelligence and features such scenes as off-the-wall hosts attacking potted plants with chainsaws in an anti-celebration of Earth Day.)
Menzies has eked out a solid existence as a professional troll, so while the depth of stupidity displayed in his comments is notable, it's not particularly surprisingly that he's saying things to tick people off. What is surprising is that Canada has a television channel that considers this drivel worthy of airtime. Send Menzies back to his basement; there, he can wrap himself in metric flags to his heart's content and dramatically improve the level of discourse on Canadian television by his absence.
- David Menzies