Halifax , Quebec City & Victoria should be the first to get teams but if they want to go state side again here are the cities they should go to Portland Or. , Salt Lake City Ut. , Rochester NY. , Hartford Ct. , Michigan & Ohio .
The ideal number of teams in the CFL should be 12 Halifax , Quebec City & Victoria that should be it but if the CFL. wants to take a chance on adding more teams state side they should stick northern or boarder states not like the last time where they went to far south & nearly killed the league .
I like the way you think. Forget Halifax, they had their chance. I like Quebec City and London, Ontario as expansion cities. I like Portland, they'd make a great international rivalry with Vancouver, but they don't have a football stadium. The CFL should go to St. Louis like what TSN's Dave Naylor tweeted.
@@JohnHobbs-o3z Expansion inside Canada is a no go too because Halifax/NS is too cheap to build a stadium in which the city/region desperately needs. The US is the only alternative to expansion because it has stadiums galore, market size and media rights deal
The key for the CFL is expanded marketing. Hire players, former players, and scouts to spread the word about the CFL. Give American university head coaches Cuban Cigars. Fly football teams up to Canada. Let them go out for a night on the town. Take advantage of the lower drinking age and other adult activities. Absolutely no viable expansion cities at the moment, anywhere. People have to be exposed to the product. No one is going to build a CFL style stadium unless they have other tenants as well. It's not worth it for a CFL team alone because they only have 10 home dates per year if you include pre-season. The only path for the CFL to expand is to either a) partner with a spring league or b) wait until the spring league has died and try to expand to a city like St Louis. With that comes changing some rules. Will probably have to go to 100 yard fields and possibly 4 downs. I'm hoping they try 15 yards for a first down to see how it works first. At some point they will get rid of the ratio on their own so that won't be a concern.
@@dom2009 You can keep 3 downs if the field has the width. It's easier to accomplish that if both teams are on the same sideline. The length will be tricky. Only major stadiums in America that have the length are in Oakland and San Antonio. Even Toronto and Montreal struggle with the length with their shortened end zones
Victoria is not a big enough market for CFL. No to expansion to the USA it failed before would fail again, also that would threaten the Canadian ratio which is important for development of the game in Canada.
If an owner will pay for a team in the states it’s a huge influx of cash to the league. Oregon doesn’t have an NFL team so they’d love it like the Stallions fans in Baltimore loved their team.
It was the best era of the CFL. It just wasn't done correctly. WLAF was doing well in Montreal and Columbus. None of those places were tried in 93 to 95.. The CFL was giving out franchises like candy on Halloween to anyone who had 100k in expansion deposit money.
Moncton,really i dont think so,Saskatoon would be a far better choice,its a football hotbed.It would be a natural rival to Regina.Plus Laval would also work,they love football.You have to look at the football culture not just population.
Windsor, Ontario
Sacramento, CA & Salt Lake City, UT would be great additions
Nope!
Halifax has the Wanderers of the CPL. Fully professional. They are loved there.
Halifax , Quebec City & Victoria should be the first to get teams but if they want to go state side again here are the cities they should go to Portland Or. , Salt Lake City Ut. , Rochester NY. , Hartford Ct. , Michigan & Ohio .
The CFL should expand to Paul Kariya
The only way Paul Kariya should to be in the Hockey Hall of Fame, is if he bought a ticket
The ideal number of teams in the CFL should be 12 Halifax , Quebec City & Victoria that should be it but if the CFL. wants to take a chance on adding more teams state side they should stick northern or boarder states not like the last time where they went to far south & nearly killed the league .
I like the way you think. Forget Halifax, they had their chance. I like Quebec City and London, Ontario as expansion cities. I like Portland, they'd make a great international rivalry with Vancouver, but they don't have a football stadium. The CFL should go to St. Louis like what TSN's Dave Naylor tweeted.
That would be awesome St Louis, they really support their UFL team so a CFL team no doubt they would fall in love with
@@dom2009 Baltimore Stallions 2.0
Nope-US is a no go sorry
@@JohnHobbs-o3z how so?
@@JohnHobbs-o3z Expansion inside Canada is a no go too because Halifax/NS is too cheap to build a stadium in which the city/region desperately needs. The US is the only alternative to expansion because it has stadiums galore, market size and media rights deal
The key for the CFL is expanded marketing. Hire players, former players, and scouts to spread the word about the CFL. Give American university head coaches Cuban Cigars. Fly football teams up to Canada. Let them go out for a night on the town. Take advantage of the lower drinking age and other adult activities.
Absolutely no viable expansion cities at the moment, anywhere. People have to be exposed to the product. No one is going to build a CFL style stadium unless they have other tenants as well. It's not worth it for a CFL team alone because they only have 10 home dates per year if you include pre-season.
The only path for the CFL to expand is to either a) partner with a spring league or b) wait until the spring league has died and try to expand to a city like St Louis. With that comes changing some rules. Will probably have to go to 100 yard fields and possibly 4 downs. I'm hoping they try 15 yards for a first down to see how it works first. At some point they will get rid of the ratio on their own so that won't be a concern.
Thing is, you gotta keep the 3 downs and do your best to keep the field size. 3 downs is actually more entertaining.
@@dom2009 You can keep 3 downs if the field has the width. It's easier to accomplish that if both teams are on the same sideline.
The length will be tricky. Only major stadiums in America that have the length are in Oakland and San Antonio. Even Toronto and Montreal struggle with the length with their shortened end zones
Bank of America stadium could probably comfortably fit a cfl field. You could always do a little renovation pushing back the seats at the end.
@@dom2009 Well yeah if you get a situation where a stadium is willing to do some renovations then that is a game changer.
@ yeah!
Victoria is not a big enough market for CFL. No to expansion to the USA it failed before would fail again, also that would threaten the Canadian ratio which is important for development of the game in Canada.
If an owner will pay for a team in the states it’s a huge influx of cash to the league. Oregon doesn’t have an NFL team so they’d love it like the Stallions fans in Baltimore loved their team.
@@dom2009 Won't work. Americans are too stupid to understand the rouge.
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Victoria is big enough,they just wont go,look at toronto biggest city,worst crowds.
6:13 I remember Sacramento, Baltimore, Las Vegas and Shreveport. Wasn't a great era for the CFL.
Saved the league though with all the expansion fees being payed
It was the best era of the CFL. It just wasn't done correctly. WLAF was doing well in Montreal and Columbus. None of those places were tried in 93 to 95.. The CFL was giving out franchises like candy on Halloween to anyone who had 100k in expansion deposit money.
Moncton,really i dont think so,Saskatoon would be a far better choice,its a football hotbed.It would be a natural rival to Regina.Plus Laval would also work,they love football.You have to look at the football culture not just population.
Having a stadium helps, Saskatoon and Laval would be great places for a team
Laval?
Really?
Montreal has their team.
Quebec City it is if going to Quebec province.
Unless you think Laval University is actually in Laval....
Tbh CFL should Expand to 14 team's and cut player's salaries! And try to grow their media!
Players salaries aren’t an issue, getting younger people interested in watching is important for the league’s success over the next quarter century.
So boring the CFL
Who cares it's a failed legue