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I'm not talking about the promos for upcoming games. I'm talking about actual commercials. The Argonauts had to pay to produce and air their This Is Argonauts Football spots. Now they were paying themselves in a manner of speaking when the spots aired on a Bell owned station but the money still moved from the Argonauts to the Bell owned station.
TV advertising is also the most expensive to produce and air so you're already starting out with a big investment. Then add in how television is consumed today with many people recording content and skipping the commercials or downloading & streaming their content and television becomes even less effective.
I don't need to look them up, I studied them for years to get my marketing degree.
Well I see this thread went deep into dead horse territory!
At the risk of being unsentimental, I will offer this: the team doesn't owe us a tailgate. The team doesn't owe us a detailed accounting of why they cancelled it. The team doesn't owe us shit. It's been losing money since 1990 and were it anything other than North America's oldest continuous sports franchise it would have folded long ago. The sense of entitlement that people have on this board astounds me sometimes.
The 2017 Eastern Final was one of the best live sports experiences of my last decade, tailgate or no. The Argos are offering me a 25% ticket discount to come back for more and I'm gladly doing so, moving 20 yards closer to centre and adding an extra season ticket for good measure.
If this latest ticket gambit doesn't work we might not have an Argo team to complain about in a few years. Knowing that, I think it's a great time to focus on the superb value of a game ticket and, as they say, pull together.
Agreed. I was mad at the beginning before the price drop and official announcement as we only had naylor's tweet to go on. I used my credit plus an extra $20 to get a second seat in section 116, in hopes that I can bring people to the games repeatedly and hopefully get them hooked, as I was in 2009, thanks to a friend, though my seats at BMO are nowhere near as good as the sections at the 35-45 yard lines at Robbers Centre, I hope they will suffice.
Argos Season Ticket Holder: 2010 - 2014 & 2016 - Present
Grey Cups Attended: 2012, 2016
Current Seats Location: Section 227
It was the whole football experience and the fact that the very first game I attended was actually the season opener in the hammer, one of our few wins that year. It was largely due to the ticats fans' passion and support for their team at that game that caught my interest. As such I wont make fun of or belittle the fans, but I have no problem picking on the team itself.
I chose the Argos as they were the closer team to where I lived at the time and was easier and cheaper to get to see regularly (why support a team actively if you can't attend the games and see them live?).
Argos Season Ticket Holder: 2010 - 2014 & 2016 - Present
Grey Cups Attended: 2012, 2016
Current Seats Location: Section 227
This is the last I will say on this subject. To me, the tailgates did nothing to help the team business wise. As I have mentioned, attendance decreased from year 1 to 2. The team decided to benefit 100% of the ticket buyers by lowering prices as opposed to the maybe 3% that would partake in the tailgate. How anybody can't see the logic there is beyond me.
It's us vs the rest of the country
And how your types here just have to spin this move as an either or decision, and how the Argo "ownership" brain-trust must obviously be always in the right over the know nothing joe average fans ... is not beyond me - it's predictable. There's some real football bizness experts at work here folks - so shut-up and buy your discounted STs. ;o)
We get it.
You NEVER believe any management decision is a good one - simply because it is management.
You have repeated this mantra ad nauseum for years, both in regard to the Argos, other CFL teams, and the CFL management.
GOBs, anti-Canadians (or anti-"non imports" to use your dated term), and business experts/bean counters- all know nothing compared to the average fan who has no knowledge of costs, budgets, etc.
We get it.
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