Quote Originally Posted by 1971GreyCup View Post
You're actually blaming the NHL, NBA and MLS teams for the decline of interest in the Argos? Not poor marketing, poor ownership decisions and a neglected fan base? I guess by that logic, the attendance problem that the Ottawa Senators have experienced was due to the resurgence of the CFL in Ottawa? Face the facts, Ottawa has comeback with an shrewd operator not willing to take the old, tried and true excuses for failure. A model franchise in a new era. We never miss the opportunity to attend the Argos games at Landsdowne Park and just wonder "what if Toronto could find our own Jeff Hunt"? Maybe we should be searing Newfoundland?

Again - a historic football team (who once had well over 30 thousand season ticket holders), that plays in a demographic now of something in the order of 8 million people to draw from - can't sell 20 thousand tickets to see a game once every 2 weeks in the summer ??? - and it's ALL because the Jays & Raptors came to town ??? The size of the market cannot be underestimated in this discussion and feeble excuses will not do. The Argos/CFL situation in S- Ontario wannabeland is a mess and all the more pathetic because of the size of the market to draw from; the excuse might work if we were talking a city of well under a million - gee, too much competition. Pathetic/ sad/ laughable; but I believe this can change and the Argos can, slowly probably, climb back to some respectability in the market.