(03-06-2019, 01:25 AM)D6 Wrote:

(03-05-2019, 11:13 PM)Bullseye Wrote: I dunno.

I know Ralph Wilson thought so, when he arranged to play one game a season in Toronto.

However, the games were sparsely attended for various reasons and the series stopped.

https://torontosun.com/2014/12/03/buffal...74e4882904

The primary reason why I think the Bills games in Toronto got less and less support is the team is the BUFFALO Bills.  Most NFL fans in the GTA ( Greater Toronto Area ) aren't Bills fans.  The novelty of going to an NFL game with teams they don't root for wore off.   Other than the Bills fans in Ontario, some from the Buffalo area,  and fans of the opposing team,  there was little interest in people going to a Bills game in Toronto year after year.  

If the Bills move to Toronto,  people in the GTA will have a local team to support that identifies as Toronto.  It's not close to a guarantee for success.  But this is a large market that has much more familiarity with the NFL than London last decade.

D6- Happy Birthday exactly a month late; my APBA team blew through the regular season then lost in the first round of the playoffs to an inferior team. Only got 16 hits in 5 games, Mookie Betts 1 for 22. Jeesh.

Anyway, on topic, I wanted to take a swipe at St. Louis who took the Cardinals from Chicago, took the Rams from Los Angeles and then lost them both. They also tried to take the Patriots from Boston when Anheuser Busch family member James Orthwein owned the team. They don't deserve a team IMO.

Concerning Toronto, would fans abandon their loyalty to the Argonauts for the NFL? I don't know anything about the CFL, attendance, etc, but the Args have been part of Toronto for a long time (just looked at Wiki-  since 1873)

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