Looks like attendance was 23,921, which doesn’t seem too bad considering the home opener in 2019 was 26,301. If you had a bag the lineup to get in was massive; hopefully they can streamline that going forward. Fortunately I did not have a bag, and my electronic ticket seemed to work okay (in previous years I would just take a screenshot of my barcode).
The one thing I didn’t see a lot of (besides beer vendors) was kids. Maybe it’s because I wasn’t paying attention (as I didn’t think about it until this morning), but I’m pretty sure there were a lot less kids at the stadium. For the future of the league, hopefully they were watching on TV from home...
As for the game itself, the start was awful (two and out, followed by a long Toronto drive), and that seemed to take some juice out of the stadium. The heavy ground attack with Carey and Litre kind of slowed things down as well. But I agree I’m not going to overanalyze anything for week 1. With a young team, they should get better as the season goes on.
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