Quote Originally Posted by argotom View Post
After the rough start he had when introduced as the new commish, I thought Orridge was doing much better of late.
In fact, I loved how he came down to talk to the crowd while attending games for the Argos.
Last summer I spoke to him for several minutes, he was very nice, attentive and concerned about the view held by the paying fans.
So I mentioned to him how the TV contract was a bad financial signing and he could not agree more.
In fact, he mentioned during the next renewal he was going to create a bidding war and what was sadly lacking at the last one.
He agreed with me how the CFL property was grossly undervalued.
Suggested it could be $100M per year and that he expected interest from other parties as well as TSN, therefore creating a bidding war.
Sadly he won't be able to see this come to fruition.
if he wanted to produce a bidding war in the next television contract that could have resulted in the board of governors turning on him... remember that Bell now has financial interest in the league and wouldn't want their TSN to lose their contract.