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Originally Posted by Acajack
Perhaps not but it could be greatly diminished.
Corporate and Media Toronto isn't great with the CFL at the moment, but it would ignore it even more if the Argos weren't there.
Just look at the CHL for an example of what it would look like.
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Ha. Yes. The CHL could be our equivalent to NCAA sports but instead it gets shunted off to some dark closet where the national media outlets ignore it completely except for a few days a year around the NHL draft, the World Juniors and maybe the Memorial Cup (and only the latter results on any focus on the league itself as opposed to individual players).
But yes, I do agree with Djeffrey that a NFL team in Toronto is maybe not the existential threat to the Argos that it once was. I mean, if AHL teams can exist alongside NHL teams in several Canadian cities now (Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal) then I don't think it's hard to imagine that a sympathetic NFL owner in Toronto could easily prop up the Argonauts. In some respects, the damage has already been done to that club and it could only get better.
More to the point, it doesn't take that much to sustain a CFL team... average attendance of 10,000 paid x 10 games at an average of $50 a ticket is a $5,000,000 gate which basically covers your player payroll. TV money, sponsorships and other revenue cover the rest. This is why MLSE isn't in any kind of panic mode... Tanenbaum alone could cover any annual shortfall with the cash that falls under the driver's seat of his car.