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Found it. Here is the "infamous" PTS interview with Richard Peddie former President and CEO of MLSE. In it he talks about why BMO was built soccer only at first (if you can believe the explanation) and he also covers the profits MLSE was projected to make on the Argos. He said they could make a million or so profit which wasn't worth it to them as they could get the same out of a couple of concerts.

Note, this "kicking the tires" of buying the Argos and projecting profits happened before the new CFL TV contract.

Just for the sake of clarity, the new TV contract was March 2013 and the interview looks like September 2013.

Edit: Just re-listened to the interview and he said the last time MLSE looked at the Argos was 2 years before the interview and they looked at buying them on three occasions.

Also got out of it, that C and S thought the soccer stadium was deliberately made smaller to keep the Argos out. Using the common sense sniff test why would C and S play their buddy McCown if it wasn't true. What Peddie says on the surface seems to make sense but something doesn't quite ring true with me on that. The only reason C and S would play MCown would be to make public the info to cover their lack of ability to get in on it (no money?) I'm still thinkin' it was shenanigans on the part of MLSE.

This interview covers a lot of important ground, and another point touched on was NBA Commish David Stern not wanting Toronto in the NBA, it was the the owners wanting the expansion fee that got them in.