Excellant post. The number one problem with the CFL is the conditions
of the stadiums. The Hamilton Stadium is a disaster that Harold Ballard
tried to get bulldozed twenty years ago. With a dual (football/soccer) facility in Hamilton, average football crowds of 35,000 would be very possible. There is talk in Toronto about a 30,000 seat stadium for soocer in North York, I don't know where that is going. There is also talk in Winnipeg about a new home for the Bombers.
The bottom line is that the goverment can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on projects that are politically correct, but hold the purse strings
on facilities that may help private team owners, even though the fans of these teams are taxpayers and voters as well.
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