Even if you do a lot of things to make the game look more entertaining, how much does the low amount of teams in the league hold the it back from drawing interest from the younger demograph that they need to survive? When only two teams in the league miss the playoffs, honestly winning the Grey Cup doesn't seem to be much of a feat.
When you're trying to convince those that are NFL fans to invest into the local CFL product, and the contrast in quality and competition is so drastic, it's a tough sell to them. Vancouver and Toronto is the epitome of this; whereas those should be their strongest markets, rather than their weakest.
The CFL just seems to lack a purpose. There's no sense of direction where the league is going, or intending to be. I'm incredibly skeptical that the league will survive this decade unless something catalytic happens to get younger people invested into the product.
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