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Originally Posted by Sainters7
They need a new stadium so bad. Especially considering all the other cities opening them. Pretty sad one of the premiere cities in Canada and basically the Patriots of the CFL the past few years play in such an outdated dump to the point that they can't even draw 80% capacity for a play-off game. It's embarrassing.
I bet a new stadium would really help inject some excitement towards to the team in this city, and make them "cool" again to the average Calgarian.
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Well, the declining interest overall shouldn't be understated. If the league keeps trending towards emptier stadiums as a whole the Stamps likely won't be an outlier regardless of where they're playing.
That's why I think the league should be catering to the younger generation like yesterday.
Condescending fans and management can give all the business lectures they want about how 27000 tickets sold for $500000 a game is better than 32000 tickets sold for $550000 with the hopes that the crowd levels go up, all they want but at the end of the day if those extra 5000 fans grew up fans and then bought season tickets you're better off in the long run.
But more importantly the CFL is heading to a bad spot where the league may fade to obscurity. Imo, it isn't a $100+ ticket game and certainly isn't a $35 to sit on a cold bleacher, three miles from the action game. The league treats it fans like it is and the fans are responding in kind.