Posted Aug 21, 2014, 2:15 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2013
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Originally Posted by esquire
It's not hard to see the link between the longer TFC season and increased payroll. More games = more money. If the CFL played 25-odd home games per team (which you obviously cannot do in pro football because of the physical toll that the game takes), then it would have roughly the same payroll as MLS, minus a few million dollars. (Assuming 20,000 fans at an average price of $50 a pop = $1,000,000 gate per game). It is not as though the MLS payroll is larger than the CFL's by orders of magnitude like the NBA's, for instance. MLS has what the CFL payroll would be if the CFL played a MLS-length season.
Then how do you explain away the numbers? When, for example, an Argos game gets 820,000 viewers but a TFC game gets 2.7% of that viewership... are you telling us that there are hundreds of thousands of people watching online? Or that there are half a million people in Saskatchewan watching Argo games? Neither of those really seem plausible.
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Half a million people watching from the prairies seems quite reasonable since many are bound to follow more than one team. 60% of CFL merchandise sales is of Riders gear yet Riders-nation is less than 3% of our countries population! How are the prairies not the dominant fanbase of this league?
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