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Originally Posted by thurmas
There is no way in hell Tim Horton's Field will be ready for the 2014 season in Hamilton. To me the move to BMO field makes the most sense for the long term survival of the Argos. BMO field or Exhibition stadium 2.0 or whatever you want to call it keeps the Argos downtown, brings them back to where they enjoyed their best years at the box office ie:1959 to 1983. Gives them the perfect stadium size to create atmosphere and demand for tickets in the 30,000 seat range and the possibility of having MLSE own them giving them unlimited resources which they have not had since the late 70's early 80's. Rogers Centre would kill the Argos in the long term and who knows if the Jays are going with natural grass in a few years they might do a full on renovation of the stadium to make it a baseball only facility because it will soon be close to a 30 year old ballpark that frankly could already use a facelift to make it feel more like a baseball park and not an all year events facility.
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The Argos are a toy for sponsors and TSN if MLSE takes them on. Anybody thinking that moving to BMO will be a revival is delusional. Only soccer fans are in love with that tin shed by the lake, renos will help but people have to understand nobody downtown gives a crap about the Argos. They could play in a stadium played in gold and sill loose money. Their fan base is in the suburbs and football being a "attraction" based sport with few home games a year to draw as many people as you can, if there are crazed Argo fans downtown they will make the drive up to watch.
The irony that MLSE will piss off their hardcore soccer base which actually makes them a ton of cash to make happy the Argos that will loose cash just dosn't make sense. It will be interesting to see what happens, I'm in the camp the Argos need to go where their core fans are which is Vaughn which is eager to create a identity for itself.
The suburbs aren't a bad thing for football of its positioned right. Foxboro manages fine, Landover is poorly connected by manage fine, Orchard Park manages fine, the Texans play on the near edge of the City as do the Eagles on Philly's south side. Football is a attraction sport that people will travel for. It's not uncommon for fans to drive 3-5 hours for a Rider game in Sask.
Put the Argos some place that wants them an give them game days on the weekends that work with the families schedule. The mid-week after work thing they were forced to do at Rogers never helped them. They can own Saturdays outside of Hockey if they play it right.
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