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Old 10-14-2013, 11:48 AM   #38
Matty81
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The big thing with CFL regular season games is as somebody said that the regular season games barely matter at all, it's a good night out but it's not about the sport as much to me until the playoffs.

Also growing up in a mid sized city where my friends were from lots of diverse backgrounds, they have zero connection or interest from most first and second generation immigrant families, which unfortunately for the cfl is the segment of our population that's growing the fastest. The other big issue they have is that hardly any families put their kids in the sport.

They've been lucky in that tsn has embraced their product and invested in their production, it looks decent on tv.

Also total aside, for some inexplicable reason, they get a ton of public funds to build stadiums at a time when other sports struggle to get any funding to build much cheaper 4-5k stadiums at a fraction of the price. The amount of money we spent in bc on bc place actually made me angry. The MLS team offered to build their own privately funded stadium, they denied it and basically forced them to be secondary tenants in bc place.

Hate that the cfl is such a welfare case when it comes to their stadiums. Why the eff do they get so much money for a sport barely anybody plays... Pay for your own stadiums. Fine sport I'll watch from time to time but I don't think pro sports, let alone the cfl deserved government dollars.

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