Originally Posted by
ensco
The expansion of BMO, the whole upper east, well we now can see it was a colossal mistake. I have no idea why Leiweke did that, and said so at that time, and that was before anyone knew that most of those additional seats would turn out to be terrible. I will take any seat in the building above a seat in the upper east, unless it's in the first 3-4 rows.)
I thought this big expansion was because they had some grand, sneaky vision to do a bunch of outdoor Leaf games, but that wasn't it. It was the stupid Grey Cup, and one Leaf gane. Hope they enjoyed that.
Why so big? Why couldn't they have just closed in the corners, done a bit more in the endzones, left it at 25K, and spared us the upper east?
So now they 7000 or 8000 seats that they have real trouble selling, except for the very best games. Plus by doing that they have seriously impaired the value prop for SSHs - I am not one, I have no trouble getting decent seats for any game I want to go to, including playoffs. The only game I ever had to pay a serious premium for was MLS Cup 2017.
It has all kinds of knock on effects, including the one we are talking about. Without a special team, like the 2017 version, it's pretty dead in there.