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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Not likely. Canadian teams tend to be a negative draw at the gate in U.S. cities, and games involving Canadian teams are a total non-starter on American TV. Toronto has been trying for decades to get an NFL franchise, with no success. The NFL just isn't interested.
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Wouldn't matter. You think the fans in Green Bay/Dallas/New York etc care who's coming to town? They'd just fill the stadium to watch their team play.
As far as TV goes, it would be part of the NFL TV deal. NFL can pick and choose and charge as much as they want to so networks would have to put Canadian teams on, especially if they're good.
Toronto hasn't shown it can draw 80k. For the first 5 seasons it was 50k, the last 2 times 40k and 38k. For only 1 game a year those numbers are putrid.
NFL is not in Canada cuz no one wants to foot a massive expansion fee and the fan bases are just no there.
Canadians love the NFL though, but they'd rather go down to a warm city and make a weekend out of it.