CFL listens to Windsor

Do you mean the CFL created the NFL? The NFL could careless about Canadians and if you believe they do then your crazy. The NFL doesn’t need any other country to survive, just like the CFL doesn’t need the US. Look at this years attendance figures. One team the Arizona Cardinals were below 50,000 people a game, and there gettting a brand new indoor stadium. New Orleans was seond to last and thats because they didn’t play at home.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/attendance

As for the team in Windsor i think it will be successful Detroit fans would go to the games. Lions suck and with Matt MIllen in control there going nowhere anytime soon. It would work.

Windsor getting a CFL team is a total pipe dream on the part of the city's mayor. At best, Windsor would be 4th on the list of potential expansion candidates. The city of Windsor is completely dominated by Detroit media and the overall 'pull' of the city. The CFL is hardly a blip on the radar there, so any talk of putting a team there is pretty ridiculous.

Any claims that Windsor is a market of 6 million people is ludicrous, since as far as most Detroiters are concerned, Windsor is only the place to go for Cuban cigars, Casino gambling, strip clubs and under-21 drinking. A Windsor CFL team would not be able to compete with the Red Wings, Tigers, Lions or Pistons on the US side of the river.

seems the commish isnt really interested, and is trying to politly shrug it off

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CFL commissioner Tom Wright and Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis met prior to Sunday's Super Bowl in Detroit to discuss franchise opportunities for the Ontario city.

Wright and Francis spoke at length about the economic vitality of Windsor and its interest in exploring the opportunity of becoming a CFL expansion site.

They agreed to continue the dialogue over the coming months and plan to meet again during the 2006 CFL season.

Last week, Francis said Windsor's role as a so-called Super Bowl co-host more than proves its worthiness for consideration as the CFL's 10th franchise.

"Windsor can be extremely proud of its efforts," Wright said Sunday in a release. "Fans from across both countries were treated to the very best in hospitality by a city well-prepared for this event. This celebration was an exceptional showcase for Windsor and for the game of football in Canada."

Wright has long been in favour of the CFL adding a 10th franchise by the end of the decade, which would give the league balance, both in its schedule as well as its divisional alignment.

Moncton, Quebec City and London have been mentioned as potential expansion cities, but Wright's preference is Halifax to make the CFL a truly Canadian league spanning coast to coast.

But in all four instances, a major stumbling block is a home stadium. None of the cities has a venue with a seating capacity of about 25,000.

Francis says his city has a new facility at the University of Windsor that currently has a seating capacity of 4,500 but could easily have more seats added to reach the 25,000-seat target.

Wright said the CFL gauges expansion interest based on its exhibition games and added Windsor would first have to host at least one pre-season contest before any expansion decision is reached.

Thanks for that, HM, I really should have know that, Geography is one of my favorite subjects. :oops:

I know where most counties of the world are, and their flags, plus some land features.

Here is a different take. Detroit does get CBC as we always hear from their hockey fans about watching Hockey Night in Canada. Same holds true in the summer and I am not sure if they also get the TSN signal. In any event, whose to say that maybe there are some closet Detroit and region football fans who get their fix on our CFL great league. At least until the No Funners start playing. On top of this with a bad Lions team and when combined with boring overall slower football(Super Snore what better example), maybe just maybe there are a hardcore who concievably one could market from Windsor to take in the games?

Hey drumming again, Americans can make fun of the CFL all they want but as much as I love football any variety, I and lots of others make fun of the NFL. Their game is so slow with the rules they have, I can’t believe the American public buy into it when they could change to our rules that have been around for decades and consistently, on average, prove to be unquestionably superior.

argotom, a team in Windsor would have to be better than the Lions to darw a crowd, and if my memory severs me, on advanrigde, Expansion teams don't do so well agiast the other older teams for a few seasons.

I don't think a team in Windsor would be very good and profitable.

But remember, Windsor knows how popular football is in the States and would like to have something “bigger time” of its own. They could build a new hockey arena there, for the Spitfires, or they could try and get in the CFL. They would like to get on the map somehow and they will have to look at the numbers to see what is best for them.

with 400,000 people (I think Regina and Halifax have more) and most of the surrounding populasion living in Detroit (Saskatchewan has almost 1,000,000 people with some potentsal american fans in Montana or Idaho, I'm sure that Halifax has close to 1,000,000), it would be a long shot at best.

if the CFL had 12 or more teams in places like Saskatoon, Victoria, etc. I would give it a go, but they have 8 teams in the major Canadian cities (with populasions close to a million people) and one in a Westren province. don't look to good for them IMO.

and banking on people from Detroit to come a see a CFL game, when they have the NFL (an American league) and other pro teams, is not the best startary.

the econmics jsut aren't there, I mean, when I frist came here, I was on an Expansion high and I wanted a team in Windsor and other cities, but then I came back done to earth and realiesed that just one team was needed for now in Halifax. Maybe one day my dream of a 22 league CFL will come ture, but it will be long after I'm gone.

Hey Horus if u dont mind id liek to comment on some of what u said about windsor. Yes people in detroit go to windsor for the gambling and drinking and cigars and everything im not argueing with that. But listen here. If they go to windsor for all those things and there is a CFL team in windsor dont you think of the millions of people that cross the detroit/windsor border everyday. That at least 5000 of them are football fans (whether NFL or CFL) So you put a team in windsor. And Windsor being 200 000+ and the Greater Essex County (being nothing more then a 45 minute drive to windsor) with 500 000+ people in it. You easily have the market and population for a team. Put the team in windsor advertise it anywhere and everywhere. And it could be a huge success. I must agree that we need a team on the easty coast. But i definatly would not complain if it came to Windsor. Theres a lot of tourist attractions in windsor for the states (like the gambling and under 21 drinking age) Its actualyl a fairly easy market to get into when you think about it. The guys going to the bar from detroit most likely watch football. So instead of watchign football on a tv in some bar. They go watch it live and pay lets say 5 bucks for a beer instead of like 10 in the states. They would go. maybe just for the cheaper beer and for somethign to do. But if the teams making money and helping out the CFL i dont think anybody would be complaining.

i cant imagine a 22 cfl teams its to much i just want a 10th franchise and the west and east to have even teams on each side

22 is too much. way too much.

maybe someday, not in my lifetime. I'm happy with ten as well.