#Riders STHolder base is at a low. Their home opener also has well over 11,000 empty seats currently vs. their rival, Blue Bombers. Yikes
Heck, that might convince me to drive there and attend!
I talked with a lot of SSK fans last year: at LDC, at BB, at week 17, at GC. They were almost without exception really depressed. You could tell it wasn't fun anymore. They didn't even have a hope of winning. Losing sometimes is fine. Losing most of the time is fine. But losing all the time is WPG @IGF in 2013. No one wants to be WPG in 2013.
SSK fans know their CFL. Jokes aside, they have a pretty good feel for CFL players. They know, like I know, that T.Harris isn't going to improve anything with their still-iffy OL and ho-hum receiving corps. They know they'll almost certainly be leapfrogged by C.Jones' Elks. That's adding insult to injury.
Goldie is right: they claimed to be the best fans that support through thick and thin. But they're really only just 1-3 years removed from looking like EDM or OTT fans: non-attendees.
An ideal situation would be if SSK lights it up in week 1. They might get some more STH out of that if the fans think they are better than EDM. If EDM trounces them, things will go downhill fast. (Losing to WPG in week 2 will be fine, because they'll expect to lose.)
Yes, not a great situation for the league: they depend on the good western team fan support.
I think SSK will turn around when they fire Dickerson The Lesser and JOD. If they suck bad enough, might they get the axe before LDC? Could Lapo end up back in SSK??
