Lacrosse is the same. Hockey WAS the same, but regular people could attend.
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Many years ago, I used to know a girl that was an Argo's cheerleader for a season. Really opened my eyes to how mickey mouse of an operation it is.
On one hand, for some silly patriotic feelings, I would like to see the CFL stick around. On the other, if it disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn't even notice.
On one hand, for some silly patriotic feelings, I would like to see the CFL stick around. On the other, if it disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn't even notice.
I haven't been to a game since the early 60's, and likely will never go. But, I kinda sorta feel for the die hards.
Drive by the stadium on game day (or see it on the news)....look at the fans, signs, face/body paint etc. They're having a blast. For most of them, it's their "escape", someting to look forward to, every couple weeks during the season. As riders, many look forward to saddling up, to escape / have a blast, smile.
Not many non riders would notice if riding dissappeared.
Keep the cfl (without massive bailouts) for the fans.
Drive by the stadium on game day (or see it on the news)....look at the fans, signs, face/body paint etc. They're having a blast. For most of them, it's their "escape", someting to look forward to, every couple weeks during the season. As riders, many look forward to saddling up, to escape / have a blast, smile.
Not many non riders would notice if riding dissappeared.
Keep the cfl (without massive bailouts) for the fans.
I think you have nailed most of the problem. So few games each year and so much space required. To cover costs, ticket price has to be high but then nobody would go. They keep ticket prices so so people show up but that's not a business, that's a hobby.
Update from Douggie. Sounds like a kosher trip in line with his statements and media blew it up.Surprise, surprise. Despite douggie pleading with everyone not to go to the cottage, guess where he went at easter? Friggin wankers. All of them.
Coronavirus: Doug Ford visited cottage despite pleas for Ontario residents to stay home | Globalnews.ca
Sources with knowledge of the trip said Premier Doug Ford had to "check on the plumbing" at his summer residence, which is currently under renovation.globalnews.ca
Doug Ford visited his Muskoka cottage on Easter Sunday
Ontario Premier Doug Ford visited his cottage on Easter Sunday to check on the plumbing but didn’t interact with anyone on the drive up, his office confirms.
www.cp24.com
"I woke up early in the morning, around 5:30 a.m., and then I just got ready and hopped in the pickup truck myself at 6:30 a.m. and I drove up there and I checked it out, made sure everything was OK, it was, and literally hop hop back in my truck and drove right back and I was back by noon."
Can confirm...had water line burst at parents' cottage. Actually (and unfortunately) the last 2 years we've literally gone to the cottage to: clean the yard, mow the lawn, clean the siding, and check nothing is flooded or no one broke in. Have not gone to the cottage to actually sit and enjoy it in years. Typically leave in the morning, and back home by dinner.Update from Douggie. Sounds like a kosher trip in line with his statements and media blew it up.
"On Sunday morning of Easter, my team told me I got the morning off and it was the first time I got off in two months and it's weighing on me because a couple years ago we had burst pipes make a terrible mess, thousands of dollars of damage, and that night I was thinking about it."Doug Ford visited his Muskoka cottage on Easter Sunday
Ontario Premier Doug Ford visited his cottage on Easter Sunday to check on the plumbing but didn’t interact with anyone on the drive up, his office confirms.
"I woke up early in the morning, around 5:30 a.m., and then I just got ready and hopped in the pickup truck myself at 6:30 a.m. and I drove up there and I checked it out, made sure everything was OK, it was, and literally hop hop back in my truck and drove right back and I was back by noon."
Parents were considering selling, but with COVID they decided to put that plan off another year as the market won't be that great this season for all intents and purposes. But who knows.
My first impression was an up and back check to see if anything was amiss. Most people I know with cottages do the same thing.
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prairies are the only places where anyone gives a crap about the CFL
even in Vancouver they're mostly Sea Hawks fans
it's a sub-par game that should have gone 4 down a long time ago
would be bad for Saskatchewan sports fans though
they love their 'Riders
this is a funny CFL "highlight" lol
even in Vancouver they're mostly Sea Hawks fans
it's a sub-par game that should have gone 4 down a long time ago
would be bad for Saskatchewan sports fans though
they love their 'Riders
this is a funny CFL "highlight" lol
Don't get me wrong, it will be a little sad to see it go, but contrary to JT's belief, there is not infinite money to distribute. It is pretty clear that the CFL is not a viable business and hasn't been for a long time. Its' teams are toys for rich folks. Sometimes your toys crash and burn. If the rich folks want to keep the league running so they can brag that they own a professional sports team, all the power to them. Giving hundreds of millions to effectively a dozen multi-multi millionaires to fix their toys is hopefully even beyond JT's level of waste and stupidity.
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That video is awesome. Football became rugby.
The problem is that businesses that weren't viable before C-19 shouldn't qualify other than for a couple of books on marketing.
The people that failed to make it work can blame it on C-19 instead of their incompetence and save face. Call it mercy killing.
I know an ex Calgary Stampeder and financially it was a part time job. He had to work. A few key players did better, QBs. Not a lot of Ferraris in the Canadian parking lots.
A lot of sports are like this. What are the prizes at Shannonville?
A friend raced power boats and prize money was basically gas money to get to the regatta. One can't compare to F-1 or NASCAR budgets. I'm pretty sure winning the prize money also ups merchandising and sponsorship rates. Watch the winner on the podium with a dozen baseball caps making sure every sponsor gets a picture with their cap on the winner.
Concur.
My aunt and uncle went up to check our cottage and found that winter left us this parting gift.
You have less docks than before or you now have half of an extra dock?
That dock is just beggin' for a couple of old BMX bikes with 2L juice jugs taped to the cross bar and downtube.
Found our dock at the other end of the lake one year. Now we pull it out and put it up on higher ground.
A year or two ago a tree beside the cottage lost a branch which took out a good chunk of the roof.
The tree is about 5' in diameter and 4 times the height of the cottage.
I should check with my brother and see if anyone has been up.
A year or two ago a tree beside the cottage lost a branch which took out a good chunk of the roof.
The tree is about 5' in diameter and 4 times the height of the cottage.
I should check with my brother and see if anyone has been up.
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Read about that, something associated with or similar to Kawasaki disease symptoms.
White house staff is starting to show covid positives.
Holy is it ever snowing! it's even staying on the ground.
We had 3 trees come down at my parents' cottage last year....1 brushed the house, the other 2 somehow fell away from the house. Very lucky with minimal damage to the deck. I've got enough firewood to last me a couple of years there.
yeah 2 years back a tree fell across our neighbors property the afternoon we were driving up, missed our cottage by about 5 ft. called my uncle and he asked what anyone was doing about it, i told him the neighbor was grabbing a chainsaw and muttered something about firewood. my uncle drove to join us and we're still burning the wood lol.
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