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Originally Posted by JHikka
If the Bombers played in a 100K stadium with 75K seats empty every week it wouldn't bother you? It would be pretty clear to me that the Bombers weren't meant to be playing in that facility.
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It wouldn't really bother me, no. Maybe not as extreme as your example, but during my Edmonton years I often attended Eskimos games where there were occasionally as little as 30,000 fans in a 60,000 seat stadium and the atmosphere was still pretty good. Maybe not quite the same as 4,000 fans in a 33,000 seat stadium but like I said before, 4,000 fans probably won't seem 'big time' no matter which facility you play in.
I get that it's always best to play in a perfect custom-built venue, you won't get an argument from me there. But whether you agree with my view on empty seats or not, the comparison has to be to the actual next best thing. And in the absence of a decent small stadium, IG Field is easily the best option in Winnipeg.