With Hamilton’s football stadium under construction, this might have been an ideal year for the Toronto Argonauts to finally play host to the annual Labour Day game against the archrival Tiger-Cats at the Rogers Centre.

Beeston: “We can’t turn it around for football mode quickly enough for them to play on Monday. I feel badly about it. That’s their tradition, but we can’t deliver.”

The clubs share a good working relationship, and the Jays don’t want to kick the Argos out or damage the CFL in a tricky Southwestern Ontario market.

The Grey Cup-champion Argos are in the middle of re-negotiating a deal to remain at the Rogers Centre, since their contract expired at the end of 2012.

Rudge says his club is exploring options for a new home venue, stressing they would be silly not to. But he declines to say what they are right now.

“The demographics are more 905,” said Peddie, who added that when he was with MLSE, he explored buying the Argos, but couldn’t figure out how to make the club financially viable. “That’s one of the problems with the CFL – it’s got an old demographic and that’s not good for sponsors, not food for the future.
Thanks for nuttin' Rogers...