YardRat
04-21-2008, 05:41 AM
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/sports/story.html?id=12687d6f-31fa-412c-9c5a-64f460ff8377
When is the last time a pro league or team owner did anything for free just for their fans? We're not talking about the CFL and B.C. Lions, or the Vancouver Whitecaps and USL, or the Vancouver Canadians here.
They are all fan-dependent teams and leagues and the owners are in it for the good of the particular game and the fans it attracts.
That's why CFL fans in Toronto, the rest of Ontario and indeed all the other franchises in the CFL, too, should not accept as gospel anything the NFL, the Buffalo Bills or those who want the Bills to move north says about preserving and working with the CFL..
None of them are looking out for the welfare of the Canadian game. They are only interested in all the head offices located in Toronto and how much they can fleece them for in sponsorship and advertising.
Fans and potential paying partners in Ontario should remember that the semi-trailer trucks loaded up all of the Baltimore Colts equipment that wasn't bolted down under the cover of darkness one night and were setting up in Indianapolis before anyone was the wiser March 29, 1984.
Owner Robert Irsay wanted the city of Baltimore to build a new stadium despite a poor team and falling attendance. But while professing to want to stay in Baltimore, he was negotiating with several cities. Indianapolis just offered the best incentives.
The article is mostly about the Sonics and the NBA, but the writer did include this little snippet.
When is the last time a pro league or team owner did anything for free just for their fans? We're not talking about the CFL and B.C. Lions, or the Vancouver Whitecaps and USL, or the Vancouver Canadians here.
They are all fan-dependent teams and leagues and the owners are in it for the good of the particular game and the fans it attracts.
That's why CFL fans in Toronto, the rest of Ontario and indeed all the other franchises in the CFL, too, should not accept as gospel anything the NFL, the Buffalo Bills or those who want the Bills to move north says about preserving and working with the CFL..
None of them are looking out for the welfare of the Canadian game. They are only interested in all the head offices located in Toronto and how much they can fleece them for in sponsorship and advertising.
Fans and potential paying partners in Ontario should remember that the semi-trailer trucks loaded up all of the Baltimore Colts equipment that wasn't bolted down under the cover of darkness one night and were setting up in Indianapolis before anyone was the wiser March 29, 1984.
Owner Robert Irsay wanted the city of Baltimore to build a new stadium despite a poor team and falling attendance. But while professing to want to stay in Baltimore, he was negotiating with several cities. Indianapolis just offered the best incentives.
The article is mostly about the Sonics and the NBA, but the writer did include this little snippet.