[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

The two times that the US hosted the Women's World Cup, their average attendance was about 37,000 and 20,000. In the States they just have a bunch of stadiums to choose from, plus a climate that is better suited to growing real grass.

I still think that FIFA would prefer real grass, and if the Men's World Cup was ever to come to Canada, I'd bet that it would still played on real grass. The scale of the tournament is such that temporarily outfitting real grass would make sense.

Long term, however, I don't foresee any Canadian stadiums going back to real grass permanently. Our summer is too short, and most facilities are shared with the CFL. Artificial just makes sense, especially now that the artificial surfaces are so much better than they used to be.

BMO Field in Toronto is the outlier here. Toronto FC finally got a nice real grass surface, and now the Argos are moving in to chew it up all summer long.

Not going to happen as the Eskimos finally ditched grass due to it being unplayable in freezing temperatures.