Luke Willson goes off on the CFL..

[blue_gold_84]

I would call BS in that average in a few of those years, but I was talking about the late 90s. You could count the number of people in the stands.

No reason to pretend we haven't had some lean seasons. It happens to every team.

Even during the darkest of the dark times, I don't think attendance was ever even remotely that low.

The WFC claims an average of over 20K going back to 1971: https://www.bluebombers.com/blue-bombers-history/

The club has averaged more than 20,000 in attendance each and every year since 1971, and as a percentage of capacity the Bombers' attendance is probably unmatched elsewhere over the long run.

John Hodge appears to have done the math back in 2021: https://3downnation.com/2021/03/25/how-cfl-attendance-has-changed-over-the-past-fifty-years-with-a-close-look-at-b-c-and-toronto/



No sources cited, so take these figures for what you will. I see no reason to doubt them, though.

[Jesse]

Even during the darkest of the dark times, I don't think attendance was ever even remotely that low.

The WFC claims an average of over 20K going back to 1971: https://www.bluebombers.com/blue-bombers-history/

John Hodge appears to have done the math back in 2021: https://3downnation.com/2021/03/25/how-cfl-attendance-has-changed-over-the-past-fifty-years-with-a-close-look-at-b-c-and-toronto/



No sources cited, so take these figures for what you will. I see no reason to doubt them, though.

I appreciate that. But this is where a bit of a double standard comes in that we apply to other teams but not our own.

There were some heavily papered crowds in some of those years. And if you went to some of those games in the Reinbolt years, you would not claim there were 20k people there.

We're also applying some modern standards to past data. Right now, teams averaging 20k seems like a pipedream. At the time, averaging that number was a fight for survival that nearly drove the entire league to bankruptcy many times.