Yep, the second game's date/time is still to be decided, but will occur. Unfortunately CFL.ca doesn't have a method to note "this game exists but doesn't have a date/time" so we had to leave it off completely for now.
I'm speculating but wondering if they're planning on making it a mid-week day game to get school kids out much like the Jays and Marlies do a few times a year.
My contact at BMO mentioned they were planning this last year but it got too deep in the off season to make the change. If this is the case, just refund/credit for the unused game and I'm good with it.
That sounds easy, all we need to do is just find a football field in the U.S. that is longer and wider with larger endzones and the goalposts on the Goal line, should be no probs.
It is supposed to be the Argos home preseason game and they are not the '1st hat tenants' at BMO Field - TFC are. But having said that I don't see any reason that any TFC dates are causing the game to be a TBA status.
TFC would be finished any of their CONCACAF games - no matter how far they go in that championship and they have no MLS league or Canadian Chamionships home games scheduled for the month of June.
So I suspect that they may be considering a school kids weekday game and perhaps they are trying to still work out arrangements for the best time/date for that with area school boards and maybe tie it into fundraising for a local charity and are trying to work out those details.
I know here in Hamilton my condo overlooks FirstOntario Centre where the Hamilton Bulldogs junior team plays and I noticed hundreds of school busses flooding the neighbourhood one morning a couple of weeks ago. Turned out it was the Bulldogs annual school kids game that started at 10:30AM that morning. Not only did the game attended by about 12,000 result in a $200,000 donation to school breakfast programs but they incorporated a literary lesson and activities surrounding that at the game.
So maybe the Argos are trying to pull something like that together.
I have to say a great job by Ottawa in their ticketing/marketing department.
We went to a game last year and I received an e-mail last week about their 3 game home opener package, went on sale last Wednesday to Friday.
Great to see them working and selling early.
I bought a mini-package last year for the Argos but received NOTHING about a seat sale or mini-package sale.
I also went to a Tiger Cat game and have received NOTHING from them.
I think a game at York University would be interesting and put up a few bleachers to get it up to 5,000 capacity . Preseason games never get many spectators but a game at York might be appealing .