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Originally Posted by logan5
Having only 20% of your CFL teams being profitable is a lot different than having 45% of MLS teams being profitable, but more importantly, MLS is trending upwards. Ten years ago, MLS as a whole, was losing money. Today the league is profitable, with team valuations skyrocketing, averaging 700 million. That rise in value indicates that the sports industry has huge confidence in the league.
Contrast that to the CFL where team values have stagnated or dropped steadily for many years now. The CFL commissioner has admitted that this direction the league continues to go in is not sustainable, as in the league is headed to folding.
The rule changes are drastic, but the CFL is clearly desperate and this is really its last gasps to survive.
I'll admit that I am not a CFL fan, and I would love to have an NFL team in Vancouver, so if the CFL were to die...
BC Place meets NFL standards so there is a suitable venue, and I know people will say the money isn't there, but with an ownership group, the money is there.
The NFL would certainly want to tap a new NFL crazy market of 40 million people.
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Wait, so the MLS was in a position of almost folding, only 10 years ago?
Hamilton was valued at $50 million in 2022, surely Winnipeg and Saskatchewan are more, and who knows what the new BC owner paid and Esks paid. Are you saying that they were valued even more than $50 million it the not too distant past? I wouldn’t think so… nothing compared to a MLS team, but it’s not a big 4 or big 5 league, so comparing makes no sense.
The NFL already has Canada market tapped. It already draws massive viewership numbers, more than the CFL, they don’t need a team in Canada to get the market, cause they already have the market. NFL is tv revenue driven, and they already get the viewers.