Unfortunately, this is 100% true.
Type: Posts; User: paulwoods13
Unfortunately, this is 100% true.
The rote condemnation of soccer and/or MLS by Cdn football fans, and Cdn football by MLS and/or soccer fans, is extremely unbecoming to both groups. It largely disappeared from this forum some time...
It is fact that they are not currently drawing 20k at BMO. It is far less certain that they were regularly drawing 20k+ (at least paid) at SkyDome in 2007, since it has widely been reported that...
None of this provides evidence that half of the Argos' fanbase does not like BMO and is not attending. Attendance has been declining since 1976, with a few upward exceptions along the way.
Huh? So the Argos have 28,000 fans, but only 14,000 of them like BMO? Any evidence for this claim?
Criticizing Simmons is just done by rote around here. I don't believe those who condemn him as anti-CFL actually read him regularly, or at all. It's simpler, after all, to deride something repeatedly...
Excellent analysis, Shatto.
As always with expansion talk, two things are prerequisites: stadium and ownership. I don't see anyone building CFL-calibre stadiums in any city any time soon. If Halifax could get a big...
Except most Americans don't consider the brand of football played in Canada to be "real" football. There was no MLS to compete with in 1993-95, yet we didn't see the CFL getting on U.S. network TV,...
I don't watch Sportsnet very often, but I almost always PVR TSN's SportsCentre at 5 and 6 p.m. They have way more coverage of the CFL than MLS. It's not remotely close. Obviously now that MLS...