CFL 2021 season?

[TimB09]

TSN PR
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The 108th #GreyCup continues to be one of Canada’s biggest sporting events, attracting an average audience of 3.1 million viewers on TSN and RDS on Sunday evening. Overall, a total of 7.9 million viewers watched some or all of the Blue Bombers’ victory over the Tiger-Cats.


TSN PR
@TSN_PR
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The 108th #GreyCup became the most live-streamed
@CFL
game ever on http://TSN.ca and the
@TSN_Sports
app, as live streaming viewership increased by 75% compared to the 2019 Grey Cup broadcast.

[thurmas]

Originally Posted by TimB09

TSN PR
@TSN_PR
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16m
The 108th #GreyCup continues to be one of Canada’s biggest sporting events, attracting an average audience of 3.1 million viewers on TSN and RDS on Sunday evening. Overall, a total of 7.9 million viewers watched some or all of the Blue Bombers’ victory over the Tiger-Cats.


TSN PR
@TSN_PR
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The 108th #GreyCup became the most live-streamed
@CFL
game ever on http://TSN.ca and the
@TSN_Sports
app, as live streaming viewership increased by 75% compared to the 2019 Grey Cup broadcast.

That 75% streaming increase is impressive and further shows the amount of people cutting cable

[plrh]

Apparently it was $7.95 to stream it on TSN. Which is unbelievable value. I streamed it but I am a monthly subscriber to the TSN app.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by plrh

Apparently it was $7.95 to stream it on TSN. Which is unbelievable value. I streamed it but I am a monthly subscriber to the TSN app.

That's not bad. I've paid $6.99 for a day pass to stream the WHL and the production of those games is nowhere near as good as the CFL on TSN.

[elly63]

Originally Posted by esquire

I enjoyed that column too. Melissa Martin is not a sportswriter per se, but she occasionally writes about sports and she does it beautifully.

Enjoyed that article and it left me wondering why there aren't more like it. What propels some "content providers" to take the opposite attitude to what she took. It seemed like one of those columns that you see waxing eloquent about the NFL or like the poetry of NFL films. I guess her piece took some thought and work when it's so much easier for hacks to be lazy and critical. Very refreshing change.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by elly63

Enjoyed that article and it left me wondering why there aren't more like it. What propels some "content providers" to take the opposite attitude to what she took. It seemed like one of those columns that you see waxing eloquent about the NFL or like the poetry of NFL films. I guess her piece took some thought and work when it's so much easier for hacks to be lazy and critical. Very refreshing change.

She's a great writer. Multiple NNA award winner as Canadian newspaper columnist of the year. And yeah, she never takes the lazy out of just bashing and slamming things. As a Free Press subscriber I enjoy her thoughtful work on whatever she writes about.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by elly63

Enjoyed that article and it left me wondering why there aren't more like it. What propels some "content providers" to take the opposite attitude to what she took. It seemed like one of those columns that you see waxing eloquent about the NFL or like the poetry of NFL films. I guess her piece took some thought and work when it's so much easier for hacks to be lazy and critical. Very refreshing change.

Haha. I remember as a kid NFL Week in Review made a 7-3 game between the 1-9 Houston Oilers and 2-8 Detroit Lions seem like the Battle of Waterloo.

Truly masterful sports marketing and communications, it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsjRKxCrV8E

[elly63]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Haha. I remember as a kid NFL Week in Review made a 7-3 game between the 1-9 Houston Oilers and 2-8 Detroit Lions seem like the Battle of Waterloo.

Yup, like I always said, in the NFL that's a titanic struggle between two defensive juggernauts and in the CFL it's two crappy offenses.

[VANRIDERFAN]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Haha. I remember as a kid NFL Week in Review made a 7-3 game between the 1-9 Houston Oilers and 2-8 Detroit Lions seem like the Battle of Waterloo.

Truly masterful sports marketing and communications, it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsjRKxCrV8E

I hurts just to watch them play on that concrete called astroturf!

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by elly63

Yup, like I always said, in the NFL that's a titanic struggle between two defensive juggernauts and in the CFL it's two crappy offenses.

We used to say that the NFL is a marketing company masquerading as a pro sports league.

You do gotta hand it to 'em - they are really good at it.

[HomerSPC]

Originally Posted by 25grapes

If the CFL is completely horrified going up against the NFL during the regular season then why do it during the playoffs? Sunday sports is an American tradition not a Canadian one, would Canadians care about a 4pm Saturday GC kickoff??

So instead you'd rather compete against Hockey Night in Canada Saturday? — the NFL, We're our own country, we shouldn't be skirting around our domestic events just to appease the few viewers of another country. I hate this Canadian inferiority complex we have going on here.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by HomerSPC

So instead you'd rather compete against Hockey Night in Canada Saturday? — the NFL, We're our own country, we shouldn't be skirting around our domestic events just to appease the few viewers of another country. I hate this Canadian inferiority complex we have going on here.

I miss having autumn regular season games on Sundays. Games are played mostly on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and Sunday games tend to be a rare exception. In the last "normal" CFL season of 2019, there was only one preseason and two regular season games played on a Sunday.

Maybe it's just a mindset thing but I feel like on Saturdays I'm always running around doing stuff while I have more time on Sundays. Sunday at 1 pm is a perfect time for football.

It is weird that those are for the most part long gone but the league still carries on with playoff Sundays.

[VANRIDERFAN]

Originally Posted by esquire

I miss having autumn regular season games on Sundays. Games are played mostly on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and Sunday games tend to be a rare exception. In the last "normal" CFL season of 2019, there was only one preseason and two regular season games played on a Sunday.

Maybe it's just a mindset thing but I feel like on Saturdays I'm always running around doing stuff while I have more time on Sundays. Sunday at 1 pm is a perfect time for football.

It is weird that those are for the most part long gone but the league still carries on with playoff Sundays.

A few years ago the CFL/TSN tried Saturday playoffs and the viewing numbers were horrible.

[elly63]

Originally Posted by HomerSPC

I hate this Canadian inferiority complex we have going on here.

That's why people have to speak up and not put up with it. If you allow it, it only enables people to keep doing it.

[TimB09]

CFL schedule was released today.

As always, you'll have some who love it and some who always have an issue with something in it. Can't please everyone I guess.

https://www.cfl.ca/schedule/

[esquire]

The 2022 CFL schedule is out...

https://www.cfl.ca/schedule/

Pretty unremarkable at least from a Bomber fan standpoint, although the season kickoff keeps creeping earlier and earlier. The preseason will be in late May/early June, and the season itself starts on June 9.

[esquire]

Couldn't have a parade this year due to public health rules, so instead there was a Grey Cup celebration last night at IG Field!









Source: https://twitter.com/Mayor_Bowman/status/1471453821117292546

[Hackslack]

Gotta say, CFL sure got lucky with the timing of playing Grey Cup before more stricter conditions of lockdowns and limited capacities with Omicron variant making its way

[esquire]

^ It dodged a huge bullet for sure.

[thurmas]

Worried omicron will screw up season tickets drives this winter. Hopefully it goes away quick so they are free to sell tickets