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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
I will go the other way - absent a pivot - this league is done within the decade if not sooner.
Might happen anyway, but in its current form I see that as an eventuality.
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I think the league is heading down the road to extinction in its current form. Attendance was dropping before the pandemic as 2019 marked the 8th year in a row of declining attendance. I've been a fan for a long time and 2019 season had more empty seats in McMahon as I've seen in a long time. The fanbase is aging and a lot of fans are dying off and not being replaced. Incompetent league management hasn't helped the cause but the league has tried and simply can't get enough younger fans to embrace the league. The TSN deal is the only thing really keeping the league a float and if they pulled out it would be over just like that.
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Yeah, it's crazy how far it has fallen. I saw a 2008 regular game on TSN this summer. Montreal at Calgary and had this gut punch of a nostalgia feeling where the stands had like maybe 1000 empty seats out of 36850 at McMahon. Now a days we'd kill to see 30000.