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Originally Posted by Hackslack
The “entire province” consists of just over 1 million people. The 2 largest centres, Regina and Saskatoon are close to 3 hrs apart from each other. Regina, the smaller of the two, has a population less than 200K (2015).... any way it is framed, it is damn impressive actually the support they do get even with a mediocre team.
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The "entire city" of Calgary is just over a million people as well but Calgary for a market for the CFL is never questioned.
Biggest enigma for a lot of Canadians outside of province is the under estimation of the support for the Roughriders & it's history.
Inside province as a whole & expats outside province has been very cohesive in support for the Riders in its 110 year history, even when Saskatchewan was the third most populous province in Canada.
Over half of Saskatchewan lives in two largest cities & with downtown Saskatoon to downtown Regina 259 highway kms apart and since most people drive 125km/hour on highway #11, its 2 hour drive for Saskatonians to Rider games, easy day trip. But its true, most of Mosaic spectators are from Regina CMA and Moose Jaw CA combined population ~305,000.
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