I don't really agree with the doom & gloom sayers. The CFL has historically gone through peaks and valleys of popularity. This Grey Cup was fantastically entertaining to watch.
For me the biggest issues are:
- The length of games and amount of time that play is stopped. They need to cut the amount of video replay reviews / challenges, and reduce the amount of time stopped for commercial breaks. This is not just a CFL problem, but football in general.
- The TSN exclusivity was a good thing back when everyone had cable, but a lot of people have dropped TSN since they lost the NHL rights. Spreading the TV rights around to various networks and having the Grey Cup back on a free channel like CBC would be a good move.
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