Officiating

CFL Talk
#1

Our commissioner recognizes the CFL’s survival will be based on the ability to expand and attract new fans.

However, they’re still major major obstacles to overcome & everyone refuses to acknowledge them:

  • Attendance and in Toronto, Vancouver & Montreal (the only cities with NHL & MLS teams) all fighting for fan dollar
  • Officiating still a very large problem getting better slowly too slowly
  • Mexico project nice idea but its a very small market
#2

Just enjoy what we’ve got otherwise we’ll be arguing these points to death. The league will either change or it won’t.

Life’s too short to worry about it.

#3

What makes you say Mexico is a small market? They are hoping for 50,000 in future games there

#4

I think those obstacles are pretty much universally acknowledged.

#5

Attendance - this issue is acknowledged by everyone, you want a public, negative statement from the Commissioner or something?
Officiating - shouldn't be acknowledged; it is like beating a dead horse and is massively overstated, grumpy-old-fan issue that will never go away regardless of the actual quality of officiating.
Mexico - a pipe dream. If an Atlantic team doesn't get launched by 2020 forget this.

#6

I don't see how the two are related.