I have it from a well placed source how the Argos will "soon" announce how a new practice facility will be constructed for them to house the team and eventually all of the management offices at the Downsview park location.
Likely to be a rental or nudge nudge, wink wink owned by MLSE.
Likely adjoining MLSE owned $21 million TFC Training Grounds facility in that same Downsview Park perhaps?
http://www.torontofc.ca/traininggroundVery interesting ArgoT, thanks for the info. :thup:
Yes it’s starting to make sense!
I hope your source isn't Chris Rudge. He has said a lot if things will happen 'soon', to which they never happen at all.
Here's hoping this happens. The portables being visible during Argo media sessions are an embarrassment to both the team and the league as a whole and does nothing to promote the image of the league in its largest market
It would also be nice to hear of an announcement that the Argos are now tenants in the newly upgraded BMO.
great news nonetheless if the source is correct.
Completely agree EVM and I think the Argos situation is the reason why the CFLPA isn’t getting every they want. The league has to take of business with the Argos before it can get to the next level. Portables in Toronto for a practice facility, ok, I’ll even say that’s a joke and I love the league to death.
Ditto for me.
…or perhaps adjoining the Argos new stadium at Downsview? :thup:
I doubt that. I think a major part of why MLSE is interested in the Argos is that they want or need BMO to get up a few levels in class and capacity and the Argos should help that bottom line. They are investing a lot of money in TFC. The Argos give some cost certainty for a while with the new agreement, should it pass and it should, hopefully. As we know the city of Toronto that still officially owns the stadium wants to see the Argos in there as presumably from the comments from Cohon, so does the CFL.
Now Downsview down the road could be the site of an NFL type stadium but that is many, many years away and many stepping stones in between, like BMO first and seeing that stadium do well with both TFC and the Argos.
Even MLSE and the city of Toronto with all the smart people they have, can't predict the future or else the Leafs would be playing right now in the SC Finals. 
The NFL stadium at Downsview could be built in three phases: a 30,000 lower bowl (ideal for Argos); with a 2nd-phase 30,000-seat upper bowl for a potential NFL team. The upper bowl could be tastefully curtained off if required for CFL games. Endzone seats could be added for Grey Cups, Super Bowls, Winter Classics and MLS All-Star games!
The foundations for a 60,000-seat structure could be designed into the Argos stadium from the start, along with a future retractable-dome option in Phase 3. This ensures that the Argos are a player in Toronto's football future. This would be the most viable option for a NFL team, great location, on the subway lines...and with the football stadium already half completed and paid for, with all the stadium approvals for expansion largely in place. :thup:
Well that was the talk that was swirling around when the MLSE buying the Argos talk was hot so this could be the first step to make a complete MLSE owned Argos
I maen they own the training facility the mangage the stadium that is two less costs that Argos have now renting a training facility and a home stadium. Could be impossible for them to lose money. Oh they already have the MLSE stores just need a new sign and a section for the Argos
There’s no NFL coming to Toronto. And even if they did, a “curtained off” stadium would not be needed, as the Argos would cease to exist. And of course the CFL would be seriously damaged. Toronto needs to wake up, give up the stupid NFL daydream, and start buying tickets to support the Argonauts.
I suppose thinking about this, maybe Downsview could be in play for a stadium if funds and financing are available. That would certainly appease the TFC fans that don't want football at BMO. Who knows. :?
Agreed. :thup:
If the Argos were run as well as some of the Western based teams, we likely wouldn’t be reading some of these ridiculous Toronto-based articles, like the one from Sportsnet comparing the CFL salary cap to other “major” leagues.
I have no interest in supporting an NFL team in Toronto, but I will say that putting one into a stadium that began as a CFL stadium would be a recipe for failure. The CFL field is so much bigger (both longer AND wider) that there would be no intimacy whatsoever for an NFL field in such a stadium. It’s similar to the problems at Rogers Centre – the need for a low slope in the lower bowl and accommodating the size of a baseball diamond makes the seats too shallow and too far away for football.
If this is true 1991argos is going to lose his damn mind. Probably won't know what to do with himself
I agree. How did the Argos getting a permanent training facility become an NFL stadium.
It does however lead to the possibility of MLSE owning the Argos and then there will be no more financial problems.
In fact it would make a lot of sense now for MLSE to buy the Argos now.
Being owned by MLSE will cut the costs of Argos having to pay for a lease for a practice facility or pay for a stadium lease or pay for opening an Argo merchandise store. MLSE already owns or manages such facilities. They could not help but to make money. Aside from the purchase of the Argos, everything after that will be profit from the Argos.
Every seat sold, Every beer sold, Every suite sold, and every Jersey sold will be profit that can go towards football operations. The Argos sponsors piece of TV profit will still be there as well
It makes even more sense to buy the team with this new soon to be ratified(?) agreement which the owners won big time.
It makes owning a team even more profitable, yes even the Argos.