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Originally Posted by calgaryrocks
you keep saying this but why would you want to fold a league and toronto will never get an nfl team, if the cfl were to fold the nfl would never come to a country that couldnt support its own game. a toronto team would not have the atmosphere that the nfl teams get becuase canada is a different country and i understand the atmospher and tailgating experience at nfl games i very important to you. if you want this type of fan support its up to people to change, not the type of football.
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I should have made my post look more sarcastic, sorry about that.
I'm from Ontario, and the NFL will thrive in Toronto. Everybody there is an NFL fan, not many CFL fans, growing up there and going to high school if we weren't talking hockey, we were talking NFL, NFL is huge there. Trust me.
Most Southern Ontario fans are Bills fans, not Argos fans or Ticats fans. If you had the choice to cheer for the best athletes in the world you'd do it. Unfortunately here we don't, we got the Seattle Seacocks, who are what a 14hr drive away. The bills are 1.5 hours from TO, 45 minutes from Hamilton and 2.5hrs from K-W area (where I'm from)
The man reason the NFL won't come here anytime soon is because the CFL and NFL have an agreement, isn't something like the NFL must give the CFL 3 million to sign a cfl Option player. I believe the agreement runs out this year.
If you see lots of success in the NFL game that will be played in TO, you can bet in our lifetime there will be an NFL franchise in TO.
Southern Ontario people are spolied they have the best athletes for every sport in North America that counts except football.
NHL, NBA, and MLB, there not gonna waste there time and money on a second rate product too them, the NFL exposure in souther ontario is huge.
I'm sorry I threw this thread off topic.
Unfortunately anybody with 5 billion and a decent business sense would do what I suggested and not re-build the CFL, however it's fantasy and everybody has a dream.
This is my two cents.