(05-11-2020 02:43 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote: (05-11-2020 02:25 PM)Erictelevision Wrote: STILL think the NFL should buy them, keep 4 teams (Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver) go to 18 games.
If you're keeping 4 CFL teams those aren't the four you keep.
Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, Calgary, and Edmonton (roughly in that order) are where you actually get fans to show up in numbers. Toronto has all the location but abysmal fan attendance even after moving out of the Rogers Center to BMO Field which would get ridiculed as a facility in the Sun Belt. Vancouver is a tweener .... prime market lackluster support but not as bad as Toronto. Ottawa actually does better on the field and in the stands than both Vancouver and Toronto and has nicer facilities than both.
Toronto is the 7th largest metro area in all of North America. You cannot pass that market up.
1. Mexico City
2. New York City
3. Los Angeles (Inland Empire comes in at #16)
4. Chicago
5. Dallas-Fort Worth
6. Houston
7. Toronto
8. Washington DC
9. Philadelphia
10. Miami
By the way, Montreal is #19 on that list. You've got to go there too.
I do agree with Vancouver. It comes in at #31. Outside of that, none of the others are in the top 50. With that said, Calgary is the 4th largest in Canada with close to 1.4 million. That's probably your 4th team as it is further South than Edmonton. Edmonton has close to 1.4 million as well, but they're both in the same province. There's no reason to worry about tapping both.
The NFL will sell itself. Whatever the attendance is for the CFL is less important because everyone up there knows it's not the best product. Their national pride is only going to get them so far. The real work is getting them to adopt an affinity for American football at all.
Baseball is not that big of a deal in Canada, for example, but the Blue Jays will still draw decent crowds. They know it's the best baseball product so you just need to get your foot in the door.
The only one of that list I would really be worried about is Vancouver. You might consider swapping to Ottawa or Winnipeg.