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Re: Oilers ask for fans [message #779077 is a reply to message #779071 ]	Wed, 10 March 2021 10:07

GabbyDugan
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K.McC#24 wrote on Wed, 10 March 2021 09:34

Adam wrote on Wed, 10 March 2021 08:26

K.McC#24 wrote on Tue, 09 March 2021 20:27

Adam wrote on Tue, 09 March 2021 12:51

K.McC#24 wrote on Tue, 09 March 2021 12:21

mightyreasoner wrote on Tue, 09 March 2021 12:13

I'm almost certain the CFL season will try to trudge ahead because I truly don't know if it would survive another year off. Remains to be seen how the ticket gate will affect them this year and if they can survive that also.

I bought season tickets for the first time last year, and I do think think I would probably go if they did. Commonwealth is so big that spacing seats should be feasible, and being outdoors should be fine. May still mask up though, not sure.

And I may even have the vaccine by then anyway.

The biggest question I think is shared spaces like entering/exiting and washrooms. Maybe there are certain sections assigned to each and maybe there is staggered times. Not sure how they will handle that at either Commonwealth or Rogers.

The CFL won't survive without ~ 20-25k gates.

I thought they only had that many fans in 2-3 centers anyhow. Don't Toronto and Montreal's venues top out way below that?

Maybe I'm overestimating their attendance and facilities. Remember when the Esks used to regularly draw 50k or so?

Yeah - it always seemed packed when I was a kid.

I think that the NFL becoming a lot more accessible has hurt the CFL, as well as having a lot of years of incompetence from team management too. The amount of damage Tillman alone did to the brand is enormous.

It's hard to pinpoint what all the team has done wrong in the past 20 years, but I don't think kids are excited about the Green & Gold at all. Do they still have the kids get in free night (in normal non-COVID years?) I always thought that was smart. The stadium was always packed to the gills, and I think it helped build some engagement.

Probably boils down to the ubiquity of the NFL, but there are other factors.

From what I can gather, the league average was ~ 30000 in the early 80's. US networks broadcast CFL games with their top tier crews in 1982 during the NFL strike, including one from Commonwealth (I read somewhere that the CFL was paid a whopping $50k per game). Had to be peak CFL in the early 80's. For me, then came the departure of Warren Moon (I instantly became a Houston Oilers fan probably even more than an Esks fan). US expansion was a debacle and that defined the 90's. Now the league faces stadium sports competition from soccer, which quite frankly way more Canadian kids (both sexes) and young adults identify with than football. High school football programs started dropping in the 80s, replaced by much less expensive soccer, so grassroots exposure to 3 down football is getting thin.

My guess is soccer takes over eventually as the summer stadium pro sport.

I think you are right. Probably won't happen over night, but trending.

Too bad, but the CFL is just hanging in there. I like CFL football a lot, and TSN does a great job of broadcasting CFL games. At the same time, if I had any children, football would be the last sport I would want them to participate in.

If FC Bayern Munich would ever play a friendly in Canada, Alphonso Davies would fill Commonwealth Stadium.It wouldn't matter who would be the opposition - even the rather feeble Canadian national team.

https://globalnews.ca/news/2040525/attendance-record-set-in- edmonton-for-fifa-womens-world-cup-opening-match/

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Oilers ask for fans	By: CrusaderPi on Sat, 06 March 2021 18:56
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Re: Oilers ask for fans	By: mightyreasoner on Tue, 09 March 2021 12:13
Re: Oilers ask for fans	By: K.McC#24 on Tue, 09 March 2021 12:21
Re: Oilers ask for fans	By: mightyreasoner on Tue, 09 March 2021 12:35
Re: Oilers ask for fans	By: CrusaderPi on Tue, 09 March 2021 12:40
Re: Oilers ask for fans	By: mightyreasoner on Tue, 09 March 2021 12:51
Re: Oilers ask for fans	By: CrusaderPi on Tue, 09 March 2021 13:01
Re: Oilers ask for fans	By: Adam on Tue, 09 March 2021 13:07
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Re: Oilers ask for fans	By: mightyreasoner on Tue, 09 March 2021 18:12
Re: Oilers ask for fans	By: Adam on Tue, 09 March 2021 19:03
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Re: Oilers ask for fans	By: Adam on Wed, 10 March 2021 09:49
Re: Oilers ask for fans	By: GabbyDugan on Wed, 10 March 2021 10:07
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