Living here in Calgary as I do, I'm sure others here on this forum that do as well would concur that Stamps fans are not excited about Walker. They aren't even curious. To them, it's just another stupid Dickenson move to bring a qb in now at this time when it;s too late with just 2 games left in a disastrous season. At his age (30) & lack of CFL experience everyone knows it'll take years for him to learn the Canadian game.
The backlash against Dave is certainly real as he stuck with Maier every week for much too long going back to 2023. Even playing Logan Bonner, the rookie was perceived as Dickenson's way of saying "Eff You" to the fanbase. As in, there you wanted a change. You got it & see? Bonner threw 5 picks. He's not even close to being ready. Now STFU as I know better than all of you." Thing is, it just exposed how bad things at QB were behind Maier. When Schilz injured his ankle in practice 2 months ago, no effort was made to bring in another qb with experience. When Schilz was healthy before his injury, Dave refused to play him making fans question why Dickenson signed him in the first place. He was seen as being stubborn in his refusal to play Schilz.
The few thousand fans that are left & who still care about this team are pissed off & are leaving in droves. My friend who has been a Stamps STH for 34 years had had enough of Murray Edwards' bad ownership & a stubborn Dickenson. He says he won't be renewing. He sat through the F Troop Years & he feels this is worse as there's no hope. You hear a lot of that. That there's no hope. As long as ownership doesn't sell the team & allows it to waste away. The team has been bludgeoned to death.
This is how bad it is for the Stamps. They used to have 30,000 season ticket holders twenty years ago & over time the number has been eroding to where it's now just 1/10th of what it was back then. For this year's LDC, the team was tweeting out on X.... "OMG, Section C is sold out. Let's see if we can sell out Section D". Then a couple of days later. "OMG, Section F is sold out. can we sell out Section G?" And so on, blah, blah, blah. It just looked so amateurish. They ended up with 28,000 at the game which was the best crowd hands down of 2024 but still one of the worst crowds in LD history with the Elks. A full 7,000 under capacity & an embarassment to the CFL & the City of Calgary.
Are Stamps fans are excited about an old UFL qb? Nope.