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Originally Posted by Acajack
That's especially true in a large city like Toronto where people are to some degree "spoiled" by pro sports options but I think that in a place like Halifax it would probably do the trick initially. It should be easily offset by the novelty of simply having a pro football team in town.
Then if the Schooners play their cards right, demonstrating their viability and becoming a local fixture, eventually they can make upgrades to their stadium.
Which is essentially what TFC did in Toronto.
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Yeah, fair enough. That's the model that many CFL teams followed too... playing in small and somewhat modest stadiums and then expanding them gradually through the 20th century (Hamilton, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Saskatchewan, Calgary).
I would just hate to see the whole undertaking doomed by taking an excessively thrifty approach to the stadium.