10th Team

No interest in Victoria and would never draw enough fans to make a go of it. Probably, why there isn’t a owner , stadium or any interest what so ever. Blacking out Lion games is a bigger concern in that province !

But other than those pesky little things they would make a great market for the CFL. :lol:

not that its anywhere time for that yet, but if you were to try to force another team in BC, then combining pop with distance from vancouver and it would have to be kelowna.

in order for a 10th team to be viable, the city would have to have a pop of over 500k plus not be a part of another teams geographical fan base.

THE MARITIME DOESN'T NOT WANT A TEAM IF THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR A STADIUM OR PAY FOR $100 a TICKET. MOVE ON
Yellowknife would actually be better. However there are 8 cities who want a franchise and be successful.
Stadium cost have become very expensive over the last 10 years. NO FREE TICKETS IN CFL ANYMORE.
DO we have to continue

Sobeys wants to be the National grocery chain in Canada ( PURCHASED SAFEWAYS for $ 5.8 billion yesterday ) , what a awesome way to brand and package your product by owning a CFL TEAM IN THE MARITIMES , just saying.

If Moncton does not do something after this year with a put up or shut up scenario, since Quebec is far more interested in the NHL, I say we go out west to Saskatoon.
The province is in a boom and strike it while it is hot.

anything is possible, although I can’t see the CFL granting a franchise to a city that is only 145 miles away from Regina, potentially fragmenting the Rider fanbase.

Others in the province know better, however for me I would say because the people of Saskatchewan are such rabid football fans and since there is no other pro team, Saskatoon if far enough and even bigger than Regina.

The province struggles, but manages to sell out TF.
A bad run of 4-5 years, and fairweather fans will drift away.
There simply is not the population base.

Saskatoon might be a possibility in 10-15 years if the population grows to a million like what they are forcasting. As of right now there just isnt the population base.

Who’s forcasting that Saskatoon will grow to 1 million in 10-15 years (and what are they smoking)? :smiley: That would be a 5X increase from their current population (a little over 200,000), more than just highly unlikely (would require everyong immigrating to Canada in the next decade to settle in Saskatoon). :stuck_out_tongue:
The whole, “Sask. fans are such rabid fans they can support 2 teams”, BS is silly. Sask. fans are only rabid fans for the SasK. RR (and that team represents the whole province). The team won 3 cups as the SASK. RR, no way they will want to go back to being the Regina RR.

Anyway, probably won’t see a 10th team until the current TV deal is finished (will take that long minimum to find a city interested, an intereested ownership group, and to get a stadium deal worked out), probably longer. Though it would be nice for scheduling (as well as having that extra game each week to watch), the league survived for decades with 9 teams, so I’m sure the league will take it’s time to find a 10th francise.

The city is actually closer to 300 k then to 200. I did google it and they arent predicting that.. my error, although I did hear the mayor on the radio the other day pushing for some extra bridges and whatnot to hold the capacity of a million.. maybe that is where I misunderstood. Anyway, Saskatoon is a non option right at the moment.

Safeway which is an American company, was one of the biggest CFL sponsors. Now that Sobeys, a Canadian company has bought their Canadian stores it will be interesting to see if they will continue with CFL sponsorship.

As for expansion :thdn: the same old discussion! Unless some type of ownership group like the OSEG in Ottawa comes forward it will never happen. OSEG put a great business case forward to justify bringing back the CFL and a pro-soccer team and it was all part of a plan to operate the stadium, and the area around it get revenue from the commercial side, taxes to the city etc
Ottawa was logical because they had previous CFL support, there is a lot of interest in soccer too and with the public service and the high tech community it has one of the highest income levels in Canada.

The CFL should be worried about Southern Ontario, the Commish has stated at his last state of the league address that the CFL is “struggling” in Southern Ontario. Forty years ago the average attendance in Toronto was 35k a game and Hamilton 34k a game, back then the population in the Hamilton/Toronto area was just over 1.5 million. Today there are close to 8 million people living within a one hour drive of IWS or the Rogers Centre, yet both teams struggle to maintain 20 to 23k average. So population growth and growth in the interest in the CFL are not related.

We should be worried about maintaining 9 teams and forget this expansion talk.

http://stats.cfldb.ca/league/cfl/1972/attendance/

or they could keep pairing it, make much more on the game as a large amount of fans going to the Grey Cup, sign on for the Vanier. Then use that money to expand CIS Football programs to other universities (like say Brock, Bradon, Lethbridge or Moncton) and grow the sport as a whole. It’s also no long stretch to drive 2 hours to see your team play. The only exception is the East Coast, which a team in Moncton would pretty much fix.

Saskatoon , Victoria, kelowna and East Timor will never get CFL franchises. East Coast is the only real possibility but they don't seem to interested.

The top 3 markets for a new CFL franchise would be Guelph, London and the site of the 2015 Eskimos exhibition game, Canada's fastest growing city: Fort MacMurray!

http://www.inews880.com/Pics/2013%20News/June%202013/Eskimos%20Fort%20Mcmurray/esks2.jpg

Along with the announcement of the pre-season game, the Eskimos revealed a partnership to develop Shell Place in Fort McMurray. A $130 million sports park with baseball diamonds, a field house and a football field with the capacity to hold 5,000 people, which is where the Esks will play that pre-season game.

Ft. Mac, :cowboy: :cowboy: :cowboy: :cowboy: :cowboy: London and Guelph. If Hamilton and Toronto can’t draw 25 000 , how are those two cities going too?

The one thing that will change in Quebec City is that Laval will no longer be the one the CFL will need to count on to get a CFL team. If they were then I would agree a team in QC would never happen.
However, there will be a new player in town in the near future when it comes to pro sports, by the way Laval Rouge et Or is not pro football ask Frederick Plesius. Quebecor media has dove head into the NHL scene in QC by not only bought the naming but also the managing rights to the Arena. The plan would be to most likely have the new NHL team to have TVA as its regional broadcast partner. This will expand Quebecor Media’s endevours to include pro sports a similar model to what Rogers has done. Not getting too deep into it as there will be those who still say no way but the synergy model used by ownership groups owning a NHL Franchise as well as a CFL franchise makes a lot of sense as the Flames/Stamps have found out. If the NHL team comes Quebecor will be ready to pay 63.5 million for naming rights and 5 million a year in rent. Being involved in building and owning a CFL specific stadium where an outdoor Classic could be held in QC and owning a CFL franchise would a nice fit and good investment.

The Laval Corp/Tanguay Remperts will have had there chance to capitalize on this much like Jeff Hunt 67’s/John Ruddy OLD Crow Ravens corp did capitalize and added John Pugh moving from minor league soccer to major soccer as well as other Ottawa businessmen in having control of a Stadium and Arena for the OSEG.

This is true that there has been 30 years of Maritimes and particularly a team a stadium in Halifax that has not happened as it has been left up to Halifax and its private sector to get done but times have changed for the state of the CFL. It has already been stated that the CFL and National corporate Sponsors are ready to get on board to assist those who do have an interest in a Stadium and a Team in Halifax and there are those that are for it but as mentioned there are many that are not or are not willing to make a commitment.
Those will be on the outside looking in very soon. A team in Halifax or Moncton has now become something that will benefit a lot more people than just those in the Maritimes now. It will benefit the 9 other teams in the CFL to give them more credibility and a more conventional schedule of games.
For Corporate Canada’s CFL partners it means one more game a week in which there product will be visible and will be opening it to a whole other Region.
The team in the Maritimes will be getting something it never had in the past and that is the CFL and its Partners out in front to organize the endevour.

Rumor is that Marc Bellemare and Christina Saint Marche are again posturing for an expansion team. They made a crack at it a few years back, and even went as far as to set aside severl million to start a frachise up. It pretty much hit a bick wall when Laval refused to expand their stadium. They then lobbied for government assistance on a new stadium, and wer denied on a federal level. Supposedly they have put together total funding of around 205mil for a new stadium and franchise at this point, with a goal of 230mil.