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Originally Posted by elly63
I would never make a claim of a percentage of people that would go to a football game. As long as 25k go every week I'd be happy and wouldn't care of they were the same 25k every week or not. Of course that doesn't help build a franchise.
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25k a week? Look at
attendance statistics for much larger cities with CFL teams. Football is big on the prairies, not so much further east. Ottawa gets 24,000 average attendance in a city of 1.5 million. Toronto gets 13,000.
There does seem to be a pattern that smaller cities actually have bigger CFL turnouts, maybe due to a lack of other sporting options, but they're all on the prairies or in Hamilton, which have longstanding affinities for the sport, which the Atlantic region does.
Football is also declining in popularity in Canada. Regular-season CFL attendance has dropped eight of the past ten years, and every one of the past five years. From 29,166 in 2007 to 24,644 in 2017.
If Halifax became a CFL city, it'd be one of the league's smallest markets, in a region with no particular prior connection the sport, which in any case is slowly declining nationwide. 25k a game? It's not impossible. But it's not likely either.
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