For those interested, here’s a piece on the cold and windy 1993 Western Final. I remember watching this on game on TV. Damon Allen was quite efficient that day.
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That doesn’t happen anymore, with climate change it hardly gets that cold till after January anymore, which makes it less necessesary to move the season up. Football is a fall sport. That’s why you see poor attendance in the early games, while people chose to go to the cottage, in the summer months
Minus 20? A day at the beach. Stamps hosted another playoff game that was in the minus 30’s a few years later.
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Doesn’t matter if it doesn’t get that cold any longer. People are softer today than they were back then. Edmonton had a game in October people claimed was too cold and it was above freezing.
Despite what you hear the temperature is not the reason for the games starting earlier. They will keep getting earlier starts until TSN is satisfied that the product is not going up against the NFL which they spend all kinds of money on.
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As I have said many times, football isn’t a winter sport.
And I think you are right that people have become softer over the years, even if global warming has made most winters milder, which it has. In today’s world far too many people are very comfortable at home with everything they want, including almost any kind of food, available at the push of a button. Far different than even 20 years ago. The proof is in the pudding as colder games clearly have poorer attendance.
It is suicidal financially for TSN to go up against the NFL with their CFL broadcasts as you know as twice as many Canadians watch the NFL. I also suspect that it’s a huge profit center for TSN as they have zero production costs unlike the costs they have to produce CFL games. Arguably therefore the NFL helps subsidize the CFL as TSN money might not be available, or might be far less, if that NFL profit wasn’t there. That needs to be respected and when someone gives you $50 million a year for broadcast rights you need to accomodate them as well.
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Thought I would put this here. So I was wondering about the new Bills stadium and saw this. Learned a new term, hydronic heating, I guess a fancy term for water that is heated and transferred via pipes to wherever for heat. Video:
