The Tanenbaum/Bell deal on the Argos says more about MLSE boardroom politics than any fundamental commitment.
Tanenbaum is supporting Cope's baby, in return for which Cope blocks any future move...
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The Tanenbaum/Bell deal on the Argos says more about MLSE boardroom politics than any fundamental commitment.
Tanenbaum is supporting Cope's baby, in return for which Cope blocks any future move...
100% correct
Vegas is about to spend US$750M in public money to get the Raiders. The sponsor of that deal, Sheldon Adelman, is worth $30B.
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Something about this particular category of international friendly defies simple explanation.
If there are no ticket sales, or no incremental ticket sales - there is no one in Marrakesh buying...
http://www.cbc.ca/m/sports/soccer/canada-mens-soccer-internationaly-friendly-1.3795805
The CMNT game today is in .... Marrakesh?
What? Why?
^I know something about this but it is dated, from ~2005. (I was an investor in an advertising business at the time.) I doubt it has changed too much.
Hockey has a huge out-of-market component in...
I was a day one SSH. The sales person I spoke to, Asif, the first time I spoke with anyone from TFC ( not sure when exactly that was, I think I signed up on the internet), I'll never forget it, he...
The reasons aren't the point. There are all kinds of "reasons" why attendance isn't relevance, but TV ratings are. The NFL has been the number two sport in Los Angeles for twenty years, with no local...
Serie A teams regularly get millions of domestic viewers for games that draw 17K.
Fine. The Toronto Rock then. For years they used to draw 17K or whatever. What did that mean?
There are an absolute ton of big euro teams that TFC outdraw on average attendance. What does that...
What nuance? "Relevance in the Toronto area" is not attendance, sorry, full stop. By that standard, monster truck rallies are as important as Leaf games.
How can this even be a debate given the TV ratings?
CFL Football may decline but I would not assume that share of the market is available to MLS. I am kind of amazed that there are 200 pages arguing about that, because the premise seems wildly wrong,...
Only horse racing and boxing have declined in absolute terms. No team sport has ever really declined. Some have stalled, like MLB or the CFL, but the sports pie just keeps growing overall.
The...
I wonder what a TFC-Impact or TFC-Whitecaps game would do in that prime TSN slot on Labour Day Monday night. That's the real question.
I'm guessing 1.0-1.5M
btw US Open tennis ratings are way...
MLS' relationship to LigaMX kind of looks like Eurobasket's relationship to the NBA.
Liga MX is much better, no argument, there is some crossover of players, but they fundamentally operate in...
It was 14K in the projections used by MLSE at City Council for the BMO pro forma in 2005.
Be careful what you wish for.
I like TFC because it is a community, not some metastasized sports-religious-industrial complex.
I won't like it as much if it gets more attention (which it...
I remember that episode as the all time low in the Anselmi regime. IIRC it was Anselmi who bundled the seats, not the league, and you had to pay for MLS Cup seats in order to renew. I had 4 reds, it...
Argos have had cheapskate owners for 35 years. Ever since Carlings sold it in the early eighties.
You run any business without reinvesting for 35 years, let me know how that goes.
I was looking hard last night, I couldn't see any football markings or divots at all.
We all know there'll be a game or two in the fall where there'll be rain, and therefore a high likelihood of...
I wouldn't rush to judgment here.
80% (90%?) of Toronto sports fans don't even know the Argos are at BMO yet.
If you had told me 5 years ago that we'd sign a significant Juventus Italian...
BMO looks great.
Like looking at pics of your hot ex GF on her wedding day
Wouldn't they just reverse the legs? We'd lose the "home field advantage" if there's extra time in the second leg (and if this scenario comes to pass we will all be baying at the moon about that) ......
This has been discussed repeatedly. It cannot be done. The roof can't be opened, or left open.