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??? - last i checked, Ottawa was in Ontario too. ;o)
I don't believe the Senators have any such deals to get fans out to their arena way in the Burbs (but i might be wrong there) - Melnyk would rather get to gouge fans even further with parking charges.
I'm just saying that maybe the Argos could learn from some of the stuff the OSEG guys did to get the RedBlacks going and so successful. Ottawa gets 24K or so crowds for every CFL game, yet Toronnawannabe land - with around 7x the population / demographic to draw from - can barely get 15 K , if they're lucky, to attend CFL games. Sorry, there is just something very pathetic, sad and wrong with that picture, and I hope all efforts are being made to change this ?
Ottawa is not Toronto. Toronto municipal government has a level of disfunction all of its own. The TTC can't even roll out Presto on time or on budget.
Unfortunately Toronto just isn't a good football / sports town. Toronto is a leafs town and whoever else is winning and/or cool.
Just finished watching CFTO sports news. Now let's set the stage---!) a win in tomorrow's game gives Argos undisputed 1st place--2) the game is a special tribute to Flutie, one of the greatest players in CFL history ---3) the team is desperate for media coverage----4) CFTO is a Bell owned station.
So what do we get on the sports news, on the station owned by one of the major owners of the Argos---golf/baseball/cycling/soccer/athletics--but nothing about the Argos or the CFL. Nothing against the other sports but if Bell owned CFTO, can't even make passing mention of tomorrow's game, then is there any doubt that the team is being ignored?
Why isn't Argonaut management pushing Bell and in particular CFTO, to give better coverage of the team? Or has Copeland and company even noticed?
They had TTC express buses from subway stations until Blue Jays mania killed Argo crowds in the mid-80s. Nothing to do with bureaucracy, everything to do with no longer drawing 40,000 per game.
Don't tell me you actually bought that stairs story. Naturally Sue-Ann Levy milked it strictly for populist effect. The Star wasn't much better.
Also, the province bungled Presto, not the city.
TSN has posted a nice documentary called "Snapshot" - a Dave Naylor Essay. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/video Fun to watch some of those 97 highlights again.
What's not to buy? Even John Tory admitted that the original $65,000 estimate was outlandish. They've been trying to get those stairs built for a decade.
They both bungled Presto. The TTC was part of the process and is taking years to roll out the Presto readers. But hey at least sole souring Bombardier contract is working well for the City and the TTC.
Since I tuned into the CFTO news hour mid way tonight, I must have missed the item re Flutie and Bubblehead Night. Though, I do recall such an item, on CFTO sometime last week. If, it was repeated again tonight, I stand corrected.
However, it still seems strange that no mention of the game was made during the sports broadcast, considering the importance of the game and the fact that Bell, which owns CFTO, also co-owns the Argos. Considering, just about every other sport imaginable was featured, failure to at least mention the game tomorrow, raises some interesting questions.
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