CFL announces changes to the game - merged topics

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

It should be noted that Calgary (1985) and Saskatchewan (1986) came dangerously close to folding as well, so this cannot be dismissed as an isolated issue. In fact the Riders needed a 24 hour telethon season ticket drive, just to stay afloat at the end of 1986. When 4 of 9 teams either have folded or have come dangerously close to folding in 10 years, it becomes a league problem.

Name one owner in any sports league who is not interested in making money...lol. Chipman and Thomson certainly are.

None of the CFL's private owners are solely invested in their team that makes it their only means of income, it's always a side project.  Taken in the context of the best way to invest their capital, the CFL has not been a great investment.  Remember Larry Tanenbaum ******** because the value of the Argos was not rising as much as the other franchises in the MLSE group, that seemed to be the focus of his CFL interest.

[bomber beetle]

When I was a young guy in the late 70's, talk about the NFL was rare.

More recently:
"One-quarter of men aged 18 to 34 follow the NFL closely (26%) compared to just
one-in-nine (11%) for the CFL. A similar ratio is evident for men 35 to 54 (34% NFL vs 19% CFL), while
older men (55+) follow both leagues at an equal level, approximately three-in-ten.
https://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023.02.08_NFL_vs_CFL.pdf

Plenty of other interesting information in the link.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

When I was a young guy in the late 70's, talk about the NFL was rare.

More recently:
"One-quarter of men aged 18 to 34 follow the NFL closely (26%) compared to just
one-in-nine (11%) for the CFL. A similar ratio is evident for men 35 to 54 (34% NFL vs 19% CFL), while
older men (55+) follow both leagues at an equal level, approximately three-in-ten.
https://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023.02.08_NFL_vs_CFL.pdf

Plenty of other interesting information in the link.

Just finished watching the NetFlix series on Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys, when he bought the team in 1989 he paid $140 million to do so, which was considered high at the time as the team wasn't officially for sale.  Today they're worth more than $10 billion, that arc in value took the NFL from a blue collar league to a media conglomerate with immense marketing power and commercial influence.  The show is so big now I don't think the owners care much about the sport of football at the heart of it, it's wealth generation that's the real star of the show.