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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
I think it’s more than just competing with hockey in May/June. Right or wrong there are American sports they don’t want to compete with. Plus holidays. There was a good breakdown on CP of why some dates don’t work a while ago. Not sure if it was just guessing or came from the league/commish.
They don’t want the Grey cup to ever fall on remembrance day, so that rules out 2nd weekend in November. They want to avoid Halloween so that rules out late Oct. They don’t want it on Canadian thanksgiving, that rules out 2nd weekend in October. They don’t want to compete with the World Series, that rules out most of mid-late October. They don’t want to compete with NHL season opener, that rules out early Oct.
Late November is a nice dead zone for sports. NHL is well underway, NCAAF isn’t much competition because it’s on Saturday. Baseball is done. NFL is about it.
It’s stupid and it’s wrong and they shouldn’t be afraid to compete with anyone but it’s the way it is.
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Based on this just do the Grey Cup at the end of September. Make the final game of the season on Labour Day and run three weeks of playoffs. Go from 21 weeks to 15 or 16 weeks. Problems solved.