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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
I'm a bit late to the discussion, but Rider fans are acting like not showing up at other team's venues is a punishment?
Christ, most other CFL cities would view that as a community service.
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Yup, I know it would make Edmonton and Calgary venues happy.
Rider fans are the under the impression that they carry the CFL financially which is a complete load of BS. They blow other teams away in merchandise sales (mostly because they are the only pro-sports merchandise available in Saskatchewan), but that mostly benefits them, and not the league as a whole.
There's only one two teams in the CFL that if they left would actually cause any amount of issues to other franchises and that's the Argos and the Ti-Cats. People in Sask. like to point and laugh at their attendance, but attendance doesn't mean much compare to tv deals, and without teams in the GTA, those tv deals go Bye Bye. Losing the Argos would likely mean the end of the CFL as we know it, and to a lesser extent, the Ti-Cats.