Sports in Canadian culture

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Originally Posted by mistercorporate

I find this hilarious, people from outside Ontario keep laughing and gloating about how the Raptors TV ratings are so horrible, and that the Argos TV ratings are so much better *gloat, gloat, gloat*. Meanwhile, the Raptors are part of a profitable enterprise that's not going anywhere and these folks are crying themselves hoarse that the Argos and the CFL are at risk of disappearing. Make up your minds...please tell me these half dozen tables of TV statistics are part of a cogent argument. Also, why is it if the Alouettes stop playing or if an Ottawa CFL franchise folds as they have a couple times the CFL survives and infact grows, but somehow if a "non-sports town" like Toronto loses a CFL franchise that somehow the entire CFL will collapse? And for the record, I like most Torontonians are not anti-CFL, heck I'm routing bigtime for a Halifax franchise and follow up on developments there on a weekly basis, but I prefer communicating with people who state their intentions clearly and don't use manipulative arguments. If you're afraid that Toronto getting an NFL team will make the CFL less viable due to the importance of Toronto then state it clearly, and we shall debate on those terms, but to just insult Torontonians as anti-Canadian and anti-CFL/wannabe-Americans for being ambitious in wanting more teams and options is frankly transparently manipulative logic. Unless of course you mean it and are really that stupid, which just means there's no point debating further and dumbing ourselves down to that level...

In my case I am not anti-anything except the arguments of Canadians who have an irrational hate for the CFL and other things uniquely Canadian. It has nothing to do with geographic location.