I was all for the Americian expansion in the early 90's thought that the league was finally willing to try new things to make the game more interesting. The problem was the CFL in the 80's and 90's didn't visually market the game through TV and videos like the NFL. The NFL used the visual mediums available to the max, CFL stayed in the 50's and just marketed that the game was entertaining. So in crunching times they focused on expansion for quick cash and except for Baltimore it was a joke. I saw a Canadian Division of nine teams vs an US Division of six? Just to guarantee a Canadian team in the Grey Cup the Canada vs US thing was stupid and did more damage then good, especially when five out of the six US teams were above .500 with no fan base and only two teams in the Canadian Division had a winning season.
Out of the bad though CFL became solely a Canadian game again and had to market the sport better, which they did. They still need to market the game better but its miles above what it was like in 1990. Attendance is better and theres more good to say then bad, US expansion may look good but I don't think its what the league needs id rather see them help out cities get new stadiums like when staging exhibition games in potential markets hold some of the profits towards a stadium fund. Its not how many teams are in the league that will make it more popular, its how many strong franchises in the league that does that.
Keep it Canadian
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