2021 CFL and Argo Attendance

[ArgoRavi]

We couldn't make Wednesday's game either due to other commitments. So that's 3 more not added to the attendance count. Never mind those who don't feel comfortable or ineligible to attend.

Something that's not mentioned much is the capacity restrictions is 30K and 75% which ever is lower. Since the Argos don't sell the upper east side, 75% with social distancing puts their selling capacity around 12K. Scanned is usually a few thousand below sold and distributed so I wouldn't be surprised for the 1st two games, we were close to a 'sellout'.

As strange as this will sound, the Argos don't have much inventory they're allowed to sell right now hence as you say putting in more resources won't pay off too much. Hence MLSE's biggest push was this past Wednesday which is the hardest sell on the schedule....the Tuesday game vs. the Elks will be similar.

This all makes sense. Why is the media not reporting this though? Instead, they keep focusing on the "low" attendance figures for the Argos. They never say a word about the lower TFC numbers though.

[Mightygoose]

This all makes sense. Why is the media not reporting this though? Instead, they keep focusing on the "low" attendance figures for the Argos. They never say a word about the lower TFC numbers though.

Yup, it's a sad double standard the Argos have to deal with. Semi off topic, Howard Berger posted a panic piece based on the low crowd (won't post it here but look it up on the CFL News Twitter feed). He completely ignores TFC who are doing worse...says they would fill up BMO if it wasn't for the restrictions, yet are these same restrictions not pushing the Argos number down?