Great crowds this weekend (earlier start to the season was a mistake)

[argotom]

9819 is the number I just saw.
Wow!

[Argo57]

9819 is the number I just saw.
Wow!

Pretty poor to say the least.

[Bosco]

9819 is the number I just saw.
Wow!

And judging by what I saw - that looks to be an inflated number too.
Looked closer to 5,000.

[doubleblue]

Another poorly attended summer football game, I suspect next weeks crowd will improve upon the return of fall football.

Next week will be better. We're still in summer.

[Mightygoose]

9819 is the number I just saw.
Wow!

Yeah pretty bad. It's a scanned number lots of no shows in our section behind the Argos bench which is pretty full.

A 2-9 team entering tonight is taking a toll on sales which are not great to begin with. Outside of the Riders here next week, there's not much of an incentive for the casual crows to buy right now.

[mchesher03]

Can you blame anyone for staying awY at this point? Record aside I find that this tram does not play overly exciting football - especially to a casual fan. A couple big plays with Franklin in but otherwise not much aside from 2 Ints.

Put another game on tv and you quickly see how exciting the CFL game can be. It’s unfortunate

[Topshelf]

I wasnt even aware there was a home game.
I know TSN calls the shots with this league,
But i think maybe a MLS soccer approach would help, where games were generally every saturday at 1 4 or 7 with one game on friday night.

[Neely2005]

Another poorly attended summer football game, I suspect next weeks crowd will improve upon the return of fall football.

Lol, at least you're finally admitting that it's still Summer.


Attendance will be up next game for 2 reasons. It's a Weekend game and Saskatchewan is a good draw.

I expect that our October 11th game will have a similar attendance to last night's game.

[Neely2005]

Can you blame anyone for staying awY at this point? Record aside I find that this tram does not play overly exciting football - especially to a casual fan. A couple big plays with Franklin in but otherwise not much aside from 2 Ints.

Put another game on tv and you quickly see how exciting the CFL game can be. It’s unfortunate

Not at all. Our head coach is terrible, our starting QB is terrible and the team is terrible. This is a similar number to what the Jays actual attendance was for some of their weekday games this season.

[Neely2005]

I wasnt even aware there was a home game.
I know TSN calls the shots with this league,
But i think maybe a MLS soccer approach would help, where games were generally every saturday at 1 4 or 7 with one game on friday night.

Makes too much sense. The league is more interested in what TSN wants than what fans who actually attend the games want.

[RB957]

Makes too much sense. The league is more interested in what TSN wants than what fans who actually attend the games want.

Well... since the $40 - 50 million that TSN pumps into the league goes a long way to keeping the CFL afloat, I'm not so sure we have solid ground for complaining. I am a die hard fan, and love going to watch the games live, but that is just not the case for too many other people. Even if the games were shifted to an all-Saturday format, the way things are right now, I am not sure how much we will shift the dial at this point... not until this team gets consistently better. I think we have won 3 games at home in the past two years. And when was the last time we had a winning regular season? Never mind back to back winning seasons. That is no way to attract casual fans.

[Argo57]

Lol, at least you're finally admitting that it's still Summer.


Attendance will be up next game for 2 reasons. It's a Weekend game and Saskatchewan is a good draw.

I expect that our October 11th game will have a similar attendance to last night's game.

Just a heads up the long range forecast is calling for 24 Celsius and sunny next Saturday, bundle up my friend😀

[Neely2005]

Well... since the $40 - 50 million that TSN pumps into the league goes a long way to keeping the CFL afloat, I'm not so sure we have solid ground for complaining. I am a die hard fan, and love going to watch the games live, but that is just not the case for too many other people. Even if the games were shifted to an all-Saturday format, the way things are right now, I am not sure how much we will shift the dial at this point... not until this team gets consistently better. I think we have won 3 games at home in the past two years. And when was the last time we had a winning regular season? Never mind back to back winning seasons. That is no way to attract casual fans.

A small thing that would help a bit is to have all weekday games start at 7:30PM local time instead of 7.

[Neely2005]

Just a heads up the long range forecast is calling for 24 Celsius and sunny next Saturday, bundle up my friend

Lol, swing and a miss. Or in CFL parlance MBT and a sack.
:-)