Quote Originally Posted by Gill The Thrill View Post
Geez, it's not as if hosting the Grey Cup really helped sell season tickets with the price of Grey Cup tix being as exorbitant as they were last season. The decline in season seats after a Grey Cup usually happened in places like Calgary, Edmonton or Winnipeg which would probably have 20k - 25K season seat holders in a Grey Cup year. Edmonton probably had closer to 30k and even more in some Grey Cup hosting years when they'd usually lead the league in avg attendance.

It is what it is I guess. Remember the Argos were not exactly drawing fans even when they jumped to a 4-2 start last season. I just hope the team plays more entertaining ball this year and gets more fans coming down to BMO, it was a nice place to be despite the lousy football last year. Realistically, the home opener may again be the only 20,000+ game, with possibly Ottawa and Montreal drawing close to 20K if all things work out nicely. Should Saskatchewan have a decent season, their fans could push attendance to close to 20K at BMO this season. With under 10K season seats, let's be realistic, drawing a walk up of 10,000 with today's prices does not happen anymore.
In the internet era, there is no need to have a "walk up" crowd, it doesn't happen anymore. Besides it would be impossible to handle thousands of "walk up" fans, if you go to the box office at BMO they will have a maximum of 3 ticket windows open at that north end ticket office.
If you show up one hour to half an hour before the game at the box office and each fan buying a ticket takes around 10 minutes to look at the seat chart, choose a seat, process his credit card etc. It would likely take one hour to process 100 people. Thousands lining up for tickets? it would be impossible to handle

The home opener should be the biggest crowd of the year, probably over 20k. Too bad there is only one home game against the Ticats this year and only one during the Ex. I think the Monday night game against Ottawa will be the lowest crowd of the year and possibly Week 18 in late October against the Bombers especially if the Argos are out of the playoffs and it's a cool evening.