[Senator Clay Davis]

I don't think any of us want the Jets to fail, but reality is reality. A city with a metro population that is 40% smaller than every other team in the league just has a much, much lower margin for error. It has to be sellouts every night, with high ticket prices. Hard to justify that for a team that doesn't appear to be anywhere close to a playoff contender, let alone a Cup contender.

Then you have to remember that Calgary and Edmonton are more desireable cities to live in than Winnipeg...and they stuggle mightly to attract free agents. Winnipeg is never going to be a place anyone who wasn't born there wants to play for. Attracting high end FAs will be a monumnetally difficult task, even more so if the franchise isn't a winning franchise. So again unless the Jets hit home runs with some draft picks, its difficult to see them being competitive for much, especially again when they are in a brutal division (4th place looks like best case scenario for a while).

Eventually you have to remember True North is a business, and if the Jets are losing money they will sell them or try and move them (or leverage taxpayers into a new building). You can say how committed TN is, but no one is committed to losing money.