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Originally Posted by jayswin

I just spoke out against Ken King for suggesting that a multipurpose 25k field house is ridiculous for a city like ours, but you're going too far the other way.

- The Stamps do not regularly sell out McMahon, their attendance is anywhere from 26-30k regularly, with a couple outliers breaking 30k (Riders, Labour Day Classic), and they sell out one to two times per season. In fact I believe they didn't sell out once this year.

- The capacity at McMahon is 36650, so only 3k more than Winnipeg. You're thinking of the temporary seating they bring in for major events.....which they bring in for Winnipeg as well (see: Grey Cup).

- The cavernous 60k, small seat stadium days are over, the US moved away from this years ago. BC Place was born from these days, but the renovation has brought it closer 45k than 60. Even Rogers Centre in Toronto is now 49k after being 60k back in the day.

These two stadiums are also not expandable. So while Winnipeg's stadium can expand to about 44k, Toronto and Vancouver cannot do this, so their max capacity is only a few k higher than Winnipeg.

Your suggestion throws all modern day sports stadium trends and economics out the window.

Not really adding to the conversation, but BC Place has a stadium capacity of 54.5k.