Quote Originally Posted by argolio View Post
If Manziel or Kap are the key to selling tickets here (and I'm not convinced of that), is there any long-term benefit once they leave? If not, you'd have to keep chasing "name" players, which, by the way, won the Argos nothing in the 70s.

Then there's the issue of how long they'd stick around. If they did well, they'd almost certainly try the NFL a year or two down the line. And if they were tire fires, the Argos could be worse off than before.
I remember only to well all the Argo "saviours" from Tobin Rote to Joe Theismann to Anthony Davis (the first million dollar man in the CFL) to Terry Metcalf (who held the record for most combined yards in an NFL season) to Rocket Ismail to Ricky Williams. If even Doug Flutie at his best could not reverse Argos's attendance problems long term, I have zero expectations that a Kaepernick or Manziel or any other single player will.