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The CBC is handicapped when the Alouettes are in the Grey Cup, because one of the two home markets is largely French language, reducing the potential for big increases in English-language viewership. French-language RDS, on the other …
Speaking of the stadium capacity issue, we all know that the Alouettes move into Olympic Stadium for their playoff games and the Grey Cup if they are hosting it. But I wonder if the GC organizers in Montreal have considered using 20202 …
… allowing all eight (or nine) cities to host the Grey Cup every couple of years. If the CFL had those conditions Lord Earl Grey’s goblet would be sitting in a closet in the back of the HOF waiting for the first Grey Cup game to happen.
So yes the Super Bowl is young, but the NFL Championship came into being just over a decade after the first Grey Cup was played. No doubt over the years many NFL championships were played in mud and snow and maybe even fog.
(snip) It appears that condition #1 automatically disqualifies many NFL cities. Kudos to the CFL for not having these conditions, allowing all eight (or nine) cities to host the Grey Cup every couple of years. …
I believe that the Grey Cup defeated the much hyped Super Bowl again this season in Canadian viewership as the Super Bowl drew 3.4 million viewers while I am pretty sure that the Grey Cup drew more than that.
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