Pw13...

[OV Argo]

It's awfully easy to be negatively smug and there's way too damn much of it by supposed CFL fans. I don't think any newcomer finds that attractive at a website.

There's two forces at work here, I actually think it's a pretty good idea but unfortunately TSN is not the rights holder for USports. Thursday night CFL games get good ratings for a slow night but are not helping league attendance, they're hurting it. I would love to see TSN do to USports what they did for the CFL. Back in the 70's CBC had tons of college sports coverage, why then are TSN and ugh Rogers helping to build another country's college sports profile in this country. It's totally perverted!

You can't really expect TSN or the CFL to give a rat's @$$ about other levels of Canadian football or to have any concern about the general concept of Canadian ball being promoted or show-cased - doesn't make any bottom-line $ense to the bean-counters who know best. You can expect some CFL "fans" to being smugly dismissive of other Canadian football they don't know or care about, OTOH.

I wonder if TSN might consider, however, if an Argo home game coincided with game day of the annual Panda Game in Ottawa, of switching TV coverage to the Canadian college ball game instead: 20K plus of fans enjoying a Canadian football game as opposed to the embarassing spectacle of 10 to 12 K and reams of empty seats at the Argo game ? Much better optics there that some bean-counters at TSN or the CFL or MLSE might want to get in on, if it could somehow make bottom-line sense ? Could also think of bumping an Argo home game in favor of TV coverage of a Rouge & Or / Carabins match-up in Quebec City with probably double the number of fans in attendance - sure "looks" better than thousands of empty seats in TO - could that mean better "ratings" ? TSN loves showing plenty of US college ball while they continue to ignore Canadian college ball - surely can be rationalized by the bottom line = all that really matters, no ? Maybe TSN could rig a deal to have some big US college ball games played on Friday nights and put that on the majority of their feeds - CFL game only on TSN 4 maybe or not at all ? - surely would be justified if some ratings gains were to be had - "shareholders" would love this; AND plenty of wannabes in the Canadian media approved too ?