Re: Possible Expansion Cities

Saskatoon!!!   What a rivalry that would be against the Riders.
Saskatchewan fans are wild.  They live and breath football.  They travel for
hours to go to games in Regina.  Saskatoon is even bigger than Regina.
They'd fill a stadium every week.

"Jason Hoehn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Chuck Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > How many cities in this great land of ours could realistically support a
> CFL
> > franchise?
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> I really don't think all that many,...
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> You'd probably need a populatiion of 250k+ I think, and you don't want the
> city to be a suburb of a pre-existing CFL city. So a lot of cities are off
> the list right away.
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> Quebec city, perhaps (kinda small) Halifax, probably, (kinda small) ... I
> thikn the BC interior MIGHT be bale to pull it off, but they are a little
> thin on population (Kelowna/Penticton). All of the major centers pretty
much
> have CFL teams. Let's face it, we're Canada, we don't have a lot of really
> big cities ... Victoria?, to small.
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> I think they could have a CFL team in Calgary, if they really tried,...
;-P
> (Okay okay, cheap shot,... It's an old joke, I couldn't resist,...)
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