Quote Originally Posted by Topshelf View Post
The CFL has a whole is in trouble. Even Regina has scores of empty seats.
This market simply will not buy into a minor league team. The NFL is a far bigger beast than it was 40 years ago when the Argos were getting huge crowds at the Ex.
No minor league teams do well in this market. TFC has a number of different things going for them, and MLSE just assumed wrongly that a move to BMO would put the Argos on par.
Now that said, there are solutions.
1. Free parking and tailgating - US style
2. Value menu entire game. Make it an affordable day out for families.
3. Free admission to the CNE game. Huge opportunity to grow a fan base. Even if you just allow free admission to the upper deck of the east stand (where there are no Season seats), you have thousands of people that peer through the fence that game. Why not invite them in?
Can also just hand out tickets at the gate for assigned seats. Give season seat holders a credit or some other incentive to make up for it.
The Grey Cup “parade” was downgraded from city hall to maple leafs square. There’s a long way to go to bring the fans back.
No one called the Grey Cup rally a parade. It was referred to officially as a rally. In terms of production, it was huge improvement over the 2017 rally at City Hall and the crowd was bigger. It was not a downgrade at all.