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Originally Posted by pylon
Vancouver and Toronto play to half empty buildings, if not more, every week. These are metropolis's of over 2 million people each.
Green Bay, however, a city of 105,000 manages to sell out every game and has approximately a 30 year waiting list for seasons tickets (but at the current rate of turnover it is something like a thousand years.)
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Vancouver's building holds 65,000 people dummy. And attendence in Toronto is clearly no measure of a sport's worth. If it were, the Blue Jays would've become a AA team by now.
Clearly the CFL, outside of the playoffs/Grey Cup, is not a 65,000/game sport. It's a 25-35 thousand a game sport, and it's completely fine being that.
Why would you assume that a league with 24 fewer teams and 300 million fewer people to draw from, would be on equal footing with the biggest sports league in the world?