denfromoakvillemilton
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I don't think there has ever been a show in the history of television that ever garnered and audience of 90% of the population in any significantly populated place. If you are gonna toss out statements like 90% of Western Canadians watched the Grey Cup....you are gonna have to back that up with a link/fact/quote.....sorry I don't believe it.
Okay I mean a lot of western canadians. for some reason.
A second NHL team will not bring down prices to NHL hockey in the GTA. No one is going to pay $100 million expansion fee or team purchase fee, a similar amount to the Leafs for the territory and $300 million to build an arena (so about half a billion dollars in total) just to charge less money!!!
Cheaper hockey (and good hockey) is and always will be available but cheap NHL hockey in the GTA is never going to happen!
I wish you were wrong but sadly this is the truth.
http://tvguide.ca/TVNews/Articles/110208_super_bowl_ratings_DC.htmlHere's the thing though......if NFL was so much more popular in Canada than CFL, would the TV ratings not show that in a bigger way? The Grey Cup on TSN (a cable channel) had an audience of 6.25 million people.........the Super Bowl on CTV (an over the air broadcaster) had a total audience of 6.7 million........so, across the whole country, the Super Bowl with all its hype drew an audience that was 450k larger than the audience that the Grey Cup got on cable!!!
7.3 million watched the superbowl this year. so over 1 million more. But I understand your point here. I just think if we had a proper stadium then the NFL and CFL both survive here. I don't see the problem with that. People have to like what they like