You cannot deny the success of the last Grey Cup game played there. With there being no baseball, Rogers would be happy to host something, I am sure. I have no complaints about it being there. I don't go to Grey Cups in cold outdoor cities out West.
You cannot deny the success of the last Grey Cup game played there. With there being no baseball, Rogers would be happy to host something, I am sure. I have no complaints about it being there. I don't go to Grey Cups in cold outdoor cities out West.
Can they still host football at the Dome? I remember talk of renovations that would make the baseball configuration permanent. Not sure if they did that.
I have been to a soccer match in the Rogers Centre where they brought in natural turf. Anything can be done. The issue with the Jays was that if they put in real grass, the movable sections would be locked in place for the season, making football configuration impossible.
I've also lobbied for a max individual salary, but that won't do anything to minimize costs without totally lowering the overall cap, and that would not be a good thing for the league. Fact is they have to find a way to increase overall revenues. One thing they can definitely do is stop the fictitious injuries listed allowing teams to carry 15 or so extra bodies at full salary. Maybe the league needs to hire an independent physician to verify all the injuries are legit before allowing for this.
In the end, as I have said earlier in this thread, the teams have to get together and share all revenues. A league is only as strong as it's weakest team.
It's us vs the rest of the country
I found great solace on April 8th when Professor Karol Silora (UK) laid out the near term future.
Maybe a week off on the resumption of society, but certainly right and optimistic when others were most gloomy.
Today Professor Sikora reported:
“Families & friends are being reunited, the high street is reopening, sport is back on soon.
I always thought summer would feel a lot more like normal than people feared.
It was never going to happen overnight, but the worst of this pandemic is far behind us.”
“it's not the strongest who survive nor the most intelligent but the ones most adaptable to change.’ Charles Darwin
This has been kind of a milestone week in the world of Covid-19 and pro sports. It appears (fingers crossed) the worst of coronavirus is, if not over, then almost over. Barring major setbacks, the NHL and NBA want to open training camps in July and stage playoffs with no fans in August, September, and likely into October. Baseball will start an 80-100 game season in July with no fans if the owners and players agree to terms (far from a sure thing based on recent reports). Other leagues are also planning to start playing to no fans. Some in other parts of the world have already started.
Common denominator is obviously no fans. The CFL has said Labour Day is the earliest possible starting date. So will the CFL get government aid? Is a season possible without it? If not, how will the CFL be affected if it shuts down in 2020 while other leagues operate?
I don't envy Ambrosie having to deal with this, but that's why he gets paid the big bucks.
I'm starting to think they will have an 8 game season with no fans. If they decide to go with hub cities, I think they should go with Winnipeg and Regina as Saskatchewan and Manitoba seem to have been hit the lightest among CFL provinces, and their closish proximity makes for a decent hub area.
This is another idea that I think might work:
Several days after it was first suggested by one of my Twitter followers, I’m still intrigued by the idea of the @CFL relocating it’s 4 Eastern teams into one Western city each. Seems so much more practical than stuffing 4 or 5 teams into a hub city. #CFL
— David William Naylor (@TSNDaveNaylor) May 26, 2020
It's us vs the rest of the country
If the season does indeed start I’m looking forward to Toronto hosting the 2020 Grey Cup.
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Almost makes sense. The GTA can't seem to figure out social distancing and the numbers appear they will keep plugging away at the current rate for months to come. (300-400 cases and 30-40 deaths a day really sad) Add in Quebec's situation and it makes sense play the 8 game season out west with the Grey Cup in BC.
MLSE looks ignorant to the fact that 70% of Ontario cases are in Toronto/GTA. How can they be a hub city for the NHL???
I don’t see it. I don’t believe the collective owners will push through a season out West and potentially lose millions more than no season at all. I also don’t believe that missing a season kills the CFL. If the CFL gets enough government funding to cover this venture, then it’s possible I guess, but no scenario would include Ontario. Working backwards from Sept, they need 2 weeks camp, 2 weeks isolation and the teams would need at least a month for logistics. At best, we now have 1 month to decide if we are playing in Sept because even those numbers seem rushed.
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I'm all for scrapping Ambrosie's Global CFL plan, but I'm not sure if adding more Canadians automatically means Canadians will watch and invest more in the CFL.And the 63-year-old Waugh wants to see an increase in the amount of Canadians playing on the field, coaching on the sidelines and evaluating talent in the front office. He didn’t agree with the CFL 2.0 Global initiative pushed by Ambrosie and believes if the “C” in CFL was more prominent it would result in increased revenue for the league.
I'll take a lot of heat for saying this, but I hope the CFL doesn't get any Federal funding (I'm actually against all the "free" money being handed out by the Liberal Government, but that's a topic for another forum). The League has been struggling for a long time, Sars-Cov-2 is just the latest issue, so hopefully the League comes out of this with a real plan to take the League where it needs to go. If not, I wonder how much longer some of the Owners are willing to lose money on some of these sinking ships.
Denmark unlocked 6 weeks ago and has reduced social distance to 1 metre. All is going well. Individual close contact less than 15 minutes. If all goes well, sports may return first maybe with every other seat filled?
Notre Dame announced that students and athletes will return mid August. The President of the university wrote an OpEd this week in the NY Times “We are in our society regularly willing to take on ourselves or impose on others risks — even lethal risks — for the good of society. We send off young men and women to war to defend the security of our nation knowing that many will not return. We applaud medical professionals who risk their health to provide care to the sick and suffering. We each accept the risk of a fatal traffic accident when we get in our cars.”
https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproje...virus.amp.html
“it's not the strongest who survive nor the most intelligent but the ones most adaptable to change.’ Charles Darwin
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