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Originally Posted by esquire
It is entirely possible that the Argo fanbase is based in the suburbs and therefore outside of your orbit. But so what? Perhaps the guy living in the far reaches of Brampton likes watching the Argos on TV but doesn't care for soccer. Does his viewership count for less than someone who lives on Roncevalles and wears a TFC scarf every day?
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North of Newmarket you're no longer in Toronto's suburbs, you're pushing up against Barrie. Brampton is part of Toronto's suburbs and has strong TFC fan support. Incidentally, 2 of TFC's players including a starter and a future starter (now on loan with a Portuguese club) are from B-town. That's why i still maintain Argos have minimal popularity within the GTA, any popularity must be in North-Central Ontario, South-Western Ontario or out of province.
Nobody goes out of their way to avoid the CFL, people go out of their way to support something if it is interesting and cool. The CFL brand looks interesting but it isn't cool yet, for it to become cool in this market you need a good local brand and I don't see anyone from markets where it is popular making strategic moves to popularize it here, only put-downs of this city due to their own inadequacies and frustrations. When I see the BC Lions, or the Montreal Alouettes, I see cool brands that could engage people here, there are too many options here to settle for half-assed country bumpkin bread crumb products. Give us something like the BC Lions, the Alouettes with a local flavour and perhaps expand the list of cities, then Torontonians will take notice and the Leafs will get some competition (TFC is not competition as it's targetting a whole different sports market). The only chance the Argos have is to sell it to MLSE at a reasonable price so they can build something appealing here and make it a success, there's no incentive to go for a CFL team otherwise since MLSE already has great teams that have enthusiastic fan bases.
North of Newmarket and East of Oshawa:
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