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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 17, 2020 17:28:14 GMT
This isn't the most solid league, financially.The CFL might not survive the loss of a year's revenue
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Aug 17, 2020 17:52:42 GMT
Wouldn't their season have been half over by now anyway?
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Post by Geddy on Aug 17, 2020 21:31:39 GMT
This isn't the most solid league, financially.The CFL might not survive the loss of a year's revenue
Our government refused to bail them out which is fine by me actually. If the CFL does die this increases the chances of Toronto getting an NFL team which is good. |
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Post by tristramshandy on Aug 17, 2020 21:35:32 GMT
This isn't the most solid league, financially.The CFL might not survive the loss of a year's revenue
Then Edmonton is never not the Eskimos? Wonder if the Rock is behind this . . . 
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 17, 2020 21:46:21 GMT
This isn't the most solid league, financially.The CFL might not survive the loss of a year's revenue
Our government refused to bail them out which is fine by me actually. If the CFL does die this increases the chances of Toronto getting an NFL team which is good. I like the CFL. Nice to see summer football. And it Toronto gets an NFL team, where does that leave Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg et al? No way can the CFL live without Toronto
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Post by Geddy on Aug 17, 2020 21:51:30 GMT
Our government refused to bail them out which is fine by me actually. If the CFL does die this increases the chances of Toronto getting an NFL team which is good. I like the CFL. Nice to see summer football. And it Toronto gets an NFL team, where does that leave Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg et al? No way can the CFL live without Toronto
The CFL is irrelevant in Toronto as the club draws 10,000 fans per game max. I'm sure the league could survive without Toronto. |
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Aug 17, 2020 21:54:18 GMT
I like the CFL. Nice to see summer football. And it Toronto gets an NFL team, where does that leave Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg et al? No way can the CFL live without Toronto
The CFL is irrelevant in Toronto as the club draws 10,000 fans per game max. I'm sure the league could survive without Toronto. is this why Kawhi left - it's a pretty sh*tty sports town that doesn't support it's teams?
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Post by millar70 on Aug 17, 2020 22:05:06 GMT
Quitting when the going gets tough.
Is that the actual official motto of Canada at this point?
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Post by twothousandonemark on Aug 17, 2020 23:31:29 GMT
I like the CFL. Nice to see summer football. And it Toronto gets an NFL team, where does that leave Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg et al? No way can the CFL live without Toronto
The CFL is irrelevant in Toronto as the club draws 10,000 fans per game max. I'm sure the league could survive without Toronto. It's the corporate bs that the CFL needs Toronto to have a team. As for the league dying, not happening. Isn't it mostly a tv driven league by TSN? Bell?? I do think the league is still heading towards turning a corner with Halifax, & a stronger national brand with that expansion as a sign of stability. Might be another 2-3yrs though. As for the NFL, I'm not certain the NFL owners care about mythical lost revenues north of the border. I think, that they think, that Toronto having an NFL team would be a tv/media abyss. Besides, I do think Toronto is at peak sports dollar right now for fans. A 2nd NHL team might not fit in with the Leafs, Raptors, Jays, & TFC. The Leafs machine would devour it. The Bills virtually already have this market to themselves anyways. If they left, the state of New York would not house a single NFL franchise, I think they were ready to go to war about that if Toronto were about to land the Bills.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 17, 2020 23:36:07 GMT
First time since 1919 that there won't be a Grey Cup.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Aug 17, 2020 23:51:43 GMT
First time since 1919 that there won't be a Grey Cup. Well, the CFL does have a lot of American players. Atlantic provinces are still not allowing fellow Canadians in their bubble without full quarantine plan. CFL should've tried for a bubble plan itself, weeks ago.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 18, 2020 0:25:08 GMT
The CFL is irrelevant in Toronto as the club draws 10,000 fans per game max. I'm sure the league could survive without Toronto. It's the corporate bs that the CFL needs Toronto to have a team. As for the league dying, not happening. Isn't it mostly a tv driven league by TSN? Bell?? I do think the league is still heading towards turning a corner with Halifax, & a stronger national brand with that expansion as a sign of stability. Might be another 2-3yrs though. As for the NFL, I'm not certain the NFL owners care about mythical lost revenues north of the border. I think, that they think, that Toronto having an NFL team would be a tv/media abyss. Besides, I do think Toronto is at peak sports dollar right now for fans. A 2nd NHL team might not fit in with the Leafs, Raptors, Jays, & TFC. The Leafs machine would devour it. The Bills virtually already have this market to themselves anyways. If they left, the state of New York would not house a single NFL franchise, I think they were ready to go to war about that if Toronto were about to land the Bills. The CFL depends on ticket sales. Their TV deals aren't that big.
And there has been a lo of talk about a "gentlemen's agreement" not to put an NFL team in Canada and killing the CFL. No one was really sure how serious the Bills to Toronto talk was after Ralph Wilson died. Wilson had an agreement, to be honored in perpetuity, that the Bills will stay in Buffalo unless the team in on the verge of bankruptcy. The rumors flew at the time, but a lot of that was Jon bon Jovi and Donald Trump talking. Neither was a favorable candidate to own any NFL team, Bon Jovi didn't have the finances and Trump pissed off too many owners from the USFL days.
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Post by Geddy on Aug 18, 2020 0:39:18 GMT
It's the corporate bs that the CFL needs Toronto to have a team. As for the league dying, not happening. Isn't it mostly a tv driven league by TSN? Bell?? I do think the league is still heading towards turning a corner with Halifax, & a stronger national brand with that expansion as a sign of stability. Might be another 2-3yrs though. As for the NFL, I'm not certain the NFL owners care about mythical lost revenues north of the border. I think, that they think, that Toronto having an NFL team would be a tv/media abyss. Besides, I do think Toronto is at peak sports dollar right now for fans. A 2nd NHL team might not fit in with the Leafs, Raptors, Jays, & TFC. The Leafs machine would devour it. The Bills virtually already have this market to themselves anyways. If they left, the state of New York would not house a single NFL franchise, I think they were ready to go to war about that if Toronto were about to land the Bills. The CFL depends on ticket sales. Their TV deals aren't that big.
And there has been a lo of talk about a "gentlemen's agreement" not to put an NFL team in Canada and killing the CFL. No one was really sure how serious the Bills to Toronto talk was after Ralph Wilson died. Wilson had an agreement, to be honored in perpetuity, that the Bills will stay in Buffalo unless the team in on the verge of bankruptcy. The rumors flew at the time, but a lot of that was Jon bon Jovi and Donald Trump talking. Neither was a favorable candidate to own any NFL team, Bon Jovi didn't have the finances and Trump pissed off too many owners from the USFL days.
That gentlemen's agreement only exists if the CFL stays in business; they fold then Toronto could get an NFL team. |
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Post by SportsFan19 on Aug 18, 2020 0:43:37 GMT
First time since 1919 that there won't be a Grey Cup. Well, the CFL does have a lot of American players. Atlantic provinces are still not allowing fellow Canadians in their bubble without full quarantine plan. CFL should've tried for a bubble plan itself, weeks ago. The Atlantic Bubble is a complete joke with zero enforcement. Plenty of plates around here from Ontario and Western Canada, and the US, from Florida to Texas.
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Post by OrsonSwelles on Aug 18, 2020 3:20:52 GMT
I always wondered if Toronto would be better off playing outside of the city to the east in say Pickering. I think the people in that direction would be more into the games and tailgating.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 18, 2020 3:32:13 GMT
Well, the CFL does have a lot of American players. Atlantic provinces are still not allowing fellow Canadians in their bubble without full quarantine plan. CFL should've tried for a bubble plan itself, weeks ago. The Atlantic Bubble is a complete joke with zero enforcement. Plenty of plates around here from Ontario and Western Canada, and the US, from Florida to Texas. Really? Where is “here”? Nova Scotia? Here in Montreal there are very, very few cars with American plates. There was a big news item some days ago about a couple from Quebec who was fined something like a thousand bucks for stopping for a coffee in PEI on their way to the Magdalen Islands ferry.
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Post by SportsFan19 on Aug 18, 2020 6:06:34 GMT
The Atlantic Bubble is a complete joke with zero enforcement. Plenty of plates around here from Ontario and Western Canada, and the US, from Florida to Texas. Really? Where is “here”? Nova Scotia? Here in Montreal there are very, very few cars with American plates. There was a big news item some days ago about a couple from Quebec who was fined something like a thousand bucks for stopping for a coffee in PEI on their way to the Magdalen Islands ferry. Yup. There was one couple living in Texas that have a home here (woman is from NS), they put their house for sale, sold it, so they had to come get their stuff. Once here they decided not to sell, but to stay. A guy I've known since elementary school, living in Alberta, drove home in a motorhome, proudly declaring how he wouldn't be self isolating at all. Got to the NS border and they had stopped all checks as the lineups were too long. No one seem to know how they were checking up on those who were suppose to self isolate for 14 days upon entering. I think it was suppose to get better, and perhaps it has, it hasn't been a topic on local radio for a while.
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Post by GiantFan1980 on Aug 18, 2020 9:28:41 GMT
9 teams in the CFL? The NFL could absorb 8 of them and expand their 8 divisions to 5 teams each.
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