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Originally Posted by The Fisher Account
They also didn't want to be responsible for killing the CFL (understandably).
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The NFL is a business so a Toronto NFL team depends on the cost/benefit analysis. There's a substantial loss to the NFL in killing off the CFL and little to no financial benefit.
The NFL already gets television revenue from Toronto (and Canada) and merchandise revenue from Toronto (and Canada). Putting a NFL team in Toronto doesn't increase either of those things. All it does is divert Canadian NFL eyes and dollars to 1 team instead of the 36 US teams currently in existence.
So it re-divides the pie but it doesn't make that pie bigger. It makes little economic sense for the NFL, would destroy the oldest football league in North America, and damage football across Canada. Lets face it, we'd end up with 1 pro team in Toronto and NO professional football anywhere else in Canada. Then there's the incalculable loss to Canada of destroying part of our culture. A significant number of Canadians don't seem to care about Canadian culture but others do. Canada is the birthplace of football, after all, so it would be a devastating loss.
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