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Ambrosie muffed this from the start in all aspects. It was always going to be a tough go, but it needed a hard numbers hard negotiation guy like the aforementioned Cohon to take charge.

Ambrosie and all his socially and politically correct buzzwords and stunts like a Euro and Mexican combine, just never came across as a strong fit when it came down to the financials of the league. Granted, unprecedented times for sure but he was lost and to be honest, his underlings in the league of for are likely not qualified or paid that much to be qualified to offer much help on the financial side. Montreal was hemorrhaging money last year and his biggest markets in TO and Vancouver were even floppier than before.

I do wonder who does step in to ensure viability of the league? Is this finally the NFL's turn to come in and take over the league?

I'd be fine with it, and the NFL IMO would keep the integrity and history and structure etc if the CFL. I'd trust them, and only them, to do that. Anyone else looking to swoop in and play league owner, you'd question their commitment to the long term, or changing rules or something, especially if they aren't Canadian, and I don't see any Canadian company stepping up to find the whole league.

NFL would get content for its TV packages in the summer, and It would turn the CFL into a bit more into a feeder league for the NFL, which again it basically is already, just a bit clunky in its execution right now.

CFL would get better players out of US Colleges too, as those players would know that the NFL is associated with the league so it removes that unknown factor of the CFL, and of course the Rock-owned XFL and AAF before that.