Re: Possible Expansion Cities

"Father Guido" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Maybe the good folks of Regina would drive up to Saskatoon. Then all of
> Sask. would have a home game each week. Think of the Labour Day
> classics.

That would be a lot of driving for football games. That and the fact that
teams ore or less play the games within a couple days of each other. So
you'd have a game in Saskatoon on Friday night and the Regnia on Sat or Sun.
Stuff like that would happen all the time. And if they DIDN'T play on the
same weekend, that would be a lot of travelling everye other weekend. I
mean, people have stuff to do on weekends besides just go to football games
for 20 straight weeks.

And then you'd be splitting the fanbase. Then theres the costs involved.
Your talking about a lot more games for Sakatchewan fans to go to in a year,
so more expense for tickets, for gas, for food and for hotels. It would get
pricey.

IF Saskatoon got a team, do you really think that fans from Saskatoon would
CONTINUE to go to Regina?... that would be the end of that love-affair. I
wouldn't blame people in Saskatoon saying  "Why should I drive to Regina,
when I can see MY team play right here at home,..."

Let's put it this way, if (For Example) the Eskimos were the Alberta
Eskimos, and were supported province-wide, then suddenly Calgary got an
expansion team, do you really think people from Calgary would continue to
drive to Edmonton for football games?, just because they "were" fans of the
team for so many years?....

And like evryone has said, the whole province has a small population base,
and they are "just" big enough now to support one team.

Ain't gonna happen.