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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
This city has a metro area of 1.2M people. That is actually a fairly small city in the grad scheme of things. This city will never have a need, at least not in the useable life time of the project currently being planned, for the type of facility you speak of. This city needs nothing more than a stadium that is large enough to facilitate the CFL, that is all. Calgary has no need to be the venue for huge stadium shows, or events like the World Cup. The population of our city is simply not large enough and won't be for decades upon decades. Those type of events target much larger spots, even the greater Vancouver area is boarder line big enough to attract those type of events.
That's not to say an updated facility primed to house CFL and maybe MLS wouldn't be beneficial, but that's all we need for anything we could possibly end up hosting over the next 30 years, such as a Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
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Cleveland - why does a CFL stadium only have to be apprx. 30,000 seats, which is what Mcmahon is?
I bet that if the stadium is covered, even more people would go. I bet you could put 40,000 butts in the seats for each Stamps game. The ones that wouldn't go because of the slightest negative aspect of the weather... now would go.