It’s not a semantics argument. It’s the definition of the phrase and if you think it’s silly then you can continue to live in ignorant bliss with your bojack ways.
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If the league adopts the tenth team, travel-only concept, the Riders give up one of their ten homes games to let the Atlantic Schooners (travel-only team) be the designated home team for the Brandon game.
The Riders would still have 9 home and 9 away games just like we currently have. If that’s the only neutral site game for the season, the other existing teams would have ten home and eight away games.
To keep things fair there should be a lottery drawing to see which of the existing nine teams have to give up one of their ten home games to participate in the neutral site game(s) for the Schooners
Why would you have a travel only team. You might as well have them based in Halifax or London at least you plant the seeds of a franchise
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We already had that thread, and it is his ruse to try to start a hub league in Canada after it failed in the US, instead of course simply enjoying the CFL or the UFL like a regular fan.
He’s been at it with these hijinks since 2021. All the rest is in that locked “travel team” ruse thread.
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Huge advantage of not having to procure a stadium initially…if ever. If it ever becomes apparent the Schooners cannot and will not ever have a suitable stadium, the Schooners can be dissolved after a five year experiment as a travel-only team in the off-season like the American experiment.
Can’t see the existing nine owners complaining about having 10 home games out of 18, instead of the current 9.
Can’t picture the Schooner players objecting to having a team when the alternative is to flip hamburgers at McDonald’s.
Let’s respectfully banter back and forth on this idea. I’m not finding realistic reasons not to try it.
There’s already another link for your idea.
(Mod edit for personal insults)
Here’s a recap for those new to this recurring post by that guy, under one disguise or another, since 2021:
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We better hope not. That’s one of the last ways that fans in some CFL cities will ever get new or refurbished stadiums.
Hosting major sporting games was a government policy and was a great funding source for facilities but they’ve gone away from that for about a decade now. Hopefully they will reconsider
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The more i think about a travel team the more i think about the las vegas based basketball team “nba g league ingite”. The concept of the team was to deliberately be a developmental team for younger talent. Using limited veterns on the roster to asist the younger players.
This could be good for CjFL / Usports players. Have the CFL ignite team be a network of regional development programs for undrafted players. Each Home game can essentially be a call up for the available players. This way plenty of Canadian players can get game time where they normally wouldn’t. And they can play out of any CjFL / Usport market
The travel-team Schooners (not intended to be a permanent travel team) would not be a second rate team that gets pummeled each week – CFL ignite concept? They would select players from the existing nine teams to stock their roster initially in phase one using the same procedure when Ottawa rejoined the league.
Each of the nine teams would protect certain players and would be off limits to the Schooners to take away.
I just hope if this concept of a 10th team is adopted the league will be generous in initially stocking the Schooners with veteran players from the other nine teams. We do NOT want to see a repeat of the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers who had total crap when it came to getting their foundational roster from the other league teams.
The league was generous when Ottawa rejoined the league, correct?
Thinking about it some more I would hope there would be slightly LESS protection for star players on the other nine teams since the Schooners will be playing on the road 100% of the time and could use a little extra pop. On the other hand, I’m not convinced being on the road all of the time is a disadvantage. Convince me otherwise
On that front, even the Olympic games have never been under higher pressure, but they are covered through the Winter Olympics in 2034
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Don’t you have a Reddit thread or Facebook thread for this hare-brained idea and agenda of yours and all those dumb uniforms and schedules you have made up over the years before trying to hijack the Schooners and the CFL for your sordid and stupid hub league cause?
There’s also a UFL thread where you can enjoy real teams in real cities like there in Birmingham for you, which will NEVER again be part of the CFL, so get over that nonsense too for your agenda.
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As stated above, Touchdown sites are not truly about expansion teams as some are pandering as well.
They are about marketing and exposure to more of Canada on site and on screens.
Otherwise no investors after all these years for a new venue, no expansion team and none of these other ruses from the remnants of the failed trash hub league concept of the USFL, which even Fox belatedly abandoned to ditch the fake hub teams without stadiums when they merged with the XFL to form the UFL.
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London has a stadium
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For a one-time or three times a year game: excellent
For a permanent home: yuck, because it’s too small?
Hamilton’s owner would have to approve of that because it’s too close to Tim Horton’s field.
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I spend time in London. My daughter goes to western, it can be easily expanded
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And as far as Hamilton goes it is 45-1hr drive. It won’t effect there attendance, in fact it may help because fans from both cities can go watch there team play.
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nope. Ottawa went 2-16 in 2014. Then they reloaded with free agents for 2015.
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There is no need to do so especially for you, for you live in Birmingham, for which the team had a decisive advantage in the first season in 2022 of the USFL as the only home team in a stupid hub league and that won the championship.
In the 2023 season, Birmingham remained so as one of only three of the eight teams with a home field where located, who again won the championship at the sparkling neutral venue of Canton, Ohio.
/Price Is Right Losing Tuba
Enjoy the UFL now with no more of those dumb hubs for which you are suddenly clamoring in Canada now even after both Fox and the NFL Godfather bailed on that dumb concept for better down here in the US for the UFL, including where you live in Birmingham with your championship team!
And may the Battlehawks clobber your butts this season for once.
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Yuck.
For a team that did not get a generous allocation … they sure did great in 2015 with an appearance in their second year
2015 appearance
2016 champs
2018 appearance
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All stadiums can be easily expanded, the question is who pays for it? BMO was expanded and renovated, paid for by MLSE
TD Place in Ottawa was renovated, rebuilt by OSEG
TH in Hamilton was built by the three levels of government (tax payers) for the Pan Am games.
The only way any stadium gets funded in Canada these days is by the private sector.
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