Mark Spector is the lead columnist for sportsnet.ca and this is what he wrote on Monday:
But in returning to Edmonton, where wildly successful Cups were held in 2002 and '97, the league is secure in knowing that its championship game, at least, will be in good hands for two consecutive years. The Stampeders have the game next November.
It is on the rarest of occasions that the CFL has been accused of showing foresight, but having back-to-back championships in Canada's most economically sound province might give one the impression the league actually knew what it was doing. Don't worry folks, they'll disprove that by putting another team in Ottawa before long, we promise.
In the meantime though, the CFL can whistle past the graveyard that has claimed the Arena Football League and threatens so many other sports circuits. The league governors have held the line on their salary cap at $4.2 million, and of all the professional sports on the Canadian landscape, there isn't one that can mix the level of exposure with the price threshold the CFL offers both fans and advertisers.
It is perhaps why the old girl catches a cold once in a while, but she never dies.
It's a fallback position for Canadians, the CFL. Even in Hamilton, where the franchise has been troubled for so long that it seems like the norm, she has made it through another winter. They'll throw another coat of paint on old Ivor Wynne this spring, and the Ticats will lose another dozen games in '09, a sad rite of passage in the CFL.
In Edmonton though, it's different...
"and the Ticats will lose another dozen games in '09 ????? :twisted: , "
Am I the only one who finds that beyond condescending...? I hope Marcel will post that quote on the locker room wall and that the team both successful and audacious enough to make Spector eat his words. :x
