Quote Originally Posted by jerrym View Post
Living in Vancouver now, I remember a time in the late 1980s when the Canucks had trouble getting 8,000 fans in the arena, yet they are now the hot "in" ticket.
The B.C. Lions were THE hot ticket in Vancouver in those days. For some of the younger people on here, I know it is hard to believe that football can take precedence over hockey in this country but it did happen in Vancouver in the mid 1980s and also happened in Winnipeg at that time too. The changing sports media landscape in this country has made this next to impossible today though with at least 80% of coverage devoted to the NHL.