Team picks up Halftime Bar Tab

[Crash]

@ExPat

If the team had gifted a new Ford Focus to everyone in attendance, the responses would have been divided as follows:

• I'd rather have a Japanese car
• Why not a Canadian-built car
• Can I get the cash value instead
• Bob Young is rich - should have chosen a more expensive car
• What's the point if there are not enough parking spaces around the stadium for all of us
• So unoriginal - Oprah already did this
• I didn't attend, but I sometimes do, so I should get a car too
• In my day, we all knew how to use a clutch
• Fire June Jones
• Hey, cool, a free car!

Not sure of the exact proportions for each response

Post of the year nominee here.

[Onemoredork]

#realfans were busy watching the game .

[FormerlyTurkish]

Not all fans had the opportunity to partake in the schmoozfest. I bet at least half of the revellers were on a comp or other freeby…that is didnt buy a ticket.

All fans are created equal just some are more equal than others.

[bobo82]

@Onemoredork

#realfans were busy watching the game .

#realfans were walking the concourse .

[Mikefrmthhammer]

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I'll second the nomination. Unfortunately all too true as well....

[hendy77]

@Palmer

Pity the Cats. Can’t win on the field, can’t win buying some fans a beer. Probably will offend some red-taper at the LLBO as well.

Let’s hear the gripes about the “blackout game? and capes and towels. Just has to be something wrong with that?

I've already complained about this...the black pants.

We have to wear gold if we even want to give ourselves a chance of winning.

I know this has been tracked. What is our record wearing the black pants?

[FormerlyTurkish]

Gold pants are winners.

[Krisiun]

@ExPat

If the team had gifted a new Ford Focus to everyone in attendance, the responses would have been divided as follows:

• I'd rather have a Japanese car
• Why not a Canadian-built car
• Can I get the cash value instead
• Bob Young is rich - should have chosen a more expensive car
• What's the point if there are not enough parking spaces around the stadium for all of us
• So unoriginal - Oprah already did this
• I didn't attend, but I sometimes do, so I should get a car too
• In my day, we all knew how to use a clutch
• Fire June Jones
• Hey, cool, a free car!

Not sure of the exact proportions for each response

The Ford Focus is mediocre.

[Palmer]

@Krisiun

The Ford Focus is mediocre.

Maybe just to Elitists who prefer the imports?

[Holy_Mackinaw]

@Onemoredork

#realfans were busy watching the game .

IMHO this is exactly the issue. Who are the real fans and how do we keep them happy. This has changed with the new stadium. At one point on Sat. we took our grandaughter under the stands to warm up. Everyone was having a great time singing, dancing and drinking. I was watching the monitor and the Cats scored a touchdown. Hardly anyone but me noticed, no cheers, nothing. The focus has changed, game day is a big party under the stands and, oh yeah, there happens to be some kind of athletic thing going on out on the field. There is no need to field a winning team, the party is just as much fun regardless of the outcome on the field. This is just my opinion based on my observations, but I really feel the focus has changed.

[Balticfox]

@FootbalYouBet

just hope it doesn't put more drunks behind the wheel.

how about picking up the tab for soda drinkers as well. Man would I take advantage of that.

Me too!

[Krisiun]

@Holy Mackinaw

IMHO this is exactly the issue. Who are the real fans and how do we keep them happy. This has changed with the new stadium. At one point on Sat. we took our grandaughter under the stands to warm up. Everyone was having a great time singing, dancing and drinking. I was watching the monitor and the Cats scored a touchdown. Hardly anyone but me noticed, no cheers, nothing. The focus has changed, game day is a big party under the stands and, oh yeah, there happens to be some kind of athletic thing going on out on the field. There is no need to field a winning team, the party is just as much fun regardless of the outcome on the field. This is just my opinion based on my observations, but I really feel the focus has changed.

No problem. As long as these short attention span millenials are opening their wallets to help the CFL thrive.

Just think. The stadium atmosphere would be even worse with only 10000 die-hards in the seats.

Let’s be happy that the socializing concourse people are helping to fund and sustain our favourite football team.

[Holy_Mackinaw]

@Krisiun

No problem. As long as these short attention span millenials are opening their wallets to help the CFL thrive.

Just think. The stadium atmosphere would be even worse with only 10000 die-hards in the seats.

Let’s be happy that the socializing concourse people are helping to fund and sustain our favourite football team.

This is my point Krisiun. As long as the bills are being paid by the Concourse Club there is no reason to worry about the on field product. Put a winning team on the field and they wont have to worry about only 10000 fans.

[Krisiun]

@Holy Mackinaw

This is my point Krisiun. As long as the bills are being paid by the Concourse Club there is no reason to worry about the on field product. Put a winning team on the field and they wont have to worry about only 10000 fans.

Yeah but in a salary cap era that doesn’t really matter anymore in certain leagues.Gone are the days when a penny pinching, profit-driven Harold Ballard could sign cheap players and still fill Maple Leaf Gardens. Likewise you also can’t BUY championships anymore either like the NY Yankees used to do.That’s why a salary cap was invented to give lower market teams a chance to compete. In these times CFL owners are going to spend to the limit of the cap whether it is a Riders crowd or Argos crowd coming through the gates.

[Katmandu]

@Crash

So?
Right place, right time.
Any different thab drawing contest winners?

If they tell everyone it’s free beer time, people will take advantage. So this way those that were planning on buying it in that place got rewarded.

I received an email saying I got an extra $10 on my rewards card. Nice touch.

I get it, Crash. Absolutely. I’m not saying I disagree with the nice gesture. I know you can’t please everyone. Just commiserating with the other fans. What can be more rewarding than that, eh?