Brandon

Are we speaking about modern day North America? Religious services is to blame and education as the antidote? LOL you may be in a time warp. The real answer is modern society has way to many selfish think for them self only people who do not take responsibilities for their action. In the olden times it was taboo to be a single parent... these days we have people even in Winnipeg who purposely get pregnant so that they can collect more money from the Government without them having to go to work. It's messed up. Ideally everyone is raised by two parents regardless of income... unfortunately the reality is that their is zero way you can force people to not screw around impregnating women left and right and taking off without being responsible for the babies they make. Their sadly is zero solution that anyone from the outside can use to fix. Throwing money or offering free child care isn't going to ever solve the problem.

It's a good article and makes sense to me. I don't see any issue with it being a smaller league / small potatoes rather then trying to expand and becoming a big league. I don't see TSN really caring either way.

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Way to generalize a whole race based on one guys story. Maybe if the guy was raised by loving parents he wouldn't feel that way regardless of what color he was. For the record if you were to speak with anyone in law enforcement they could tell you dozens of stories of criminals saying that same line regardless of gender/race/background. I've had friends from Africa and other very dangerous places where they had family come to Canada from places from poverty, extreme abuse and neglect and all of their children became extremely successful because the kids grew up in a household with two loving parents who preached hard work and respect and made sacrifices themselves to better their childrens lives. My wife who is not a "normie" by your definition is offended by your comment and says "Don't make excuses for bad people".

Laine is going to get paid big time, the Jets have zero chance of signing him again unless they shed a massive salary from the team.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7742787/man-chokes-dies-taco-eating-contest-lawsuit/

No doubts, The Houston managment is probably pisssssssssed because they had offers of 3 first round draft picks for him earlier.

Why do the Jets need Laine back? We have a plethora of guys scoring at the moment. The Jets need an all star D-man way more then Laine.

The original CSI was fantastic and could of went on longer had they moved away from the dramatic over the top storylines that involved each of the cast members and went back on focusing on the science and cases. It only got real bad when each week one of the members of the unit would be kidnapped or somehow get involved personally in each case. Similar to Criminal Minds it made the show jump the shark when it became to cheese.

Being a hardcore gamer and following the game industry... the best case scenario for a CFL game would be an "indie" game that would rip off something like Tecmo Super Bowl. EA is never making a CFL game, they would never profit off of it.

It's a great show, what will be interesting is that in 2 years his dad is supposed to die. It'll be interesting to see if they go canon with the Big Bang Theory storyline where his dad was cheating on his mom and how he died of a heart attack. I suppose they can continue on until he meets the gang.

Stipe looked old and less athletic then before, I don't think it helped him out losing 20 lbs of muscle against a guy who is build like a tank. I look forward to a Derrick Lewis rematch and a Jon Jones fight. Outside of that though the HW division is so thin on talent that anyone else will be highlight reel KO's for Ngannou.

I'm curious on why Ambrosie has not formally made any sort of announcements in relation to this?

Jeff Skinner is getting 9 million this season... Okposo with 6 million... those guys have 4 goals between the two of them.

Sounds very risky to me

Just brutal I feel bad for the fans. What's crazy is that they have only two players with more then five goals ... The Jets have nine!

It varies every year but it still usually sells 5-7 million copies while back in that era it was closer to 10 million. It's still a major franchise that generates a tonne of money. The online competitive scene is very much present these days and definitely a thing.

League needs a long term plan, which should of started after Ottawa rejoined the league. I can't speak for Toronto since I don't live and am not familiar with the population and geography. But as Bluto said years ago, should of moved somewhere in the Suburbs. Drop the ticket prices get people at the game and come up with a marketing plan similar to how the Blue run operations where gameday is an experience that can appeal to all demographics. As I said before try to find Canadian partners in each city to help market the Canadian aspect of the game and working more with the youth to get them interested in the teams. The only league wide marketing off the field that I've ever noticed is the War Amps and fighting food hunger which are both good. But they need more. Maybe focus time and energy on something that give a good long term return. I don't see how Ambrosie going to Europe had any real chance of being a success, if the NFL Europe couldn't thrive... why the hell would he think CFL Europe would thrive? Maybe instead of wasting company time going to Europe and Mexico he could of sat down with the potential investors for buying the Montreal franchise for a bit longer. The reasons/excuses given are just so poor and lack any sense. Kids are not drawn to Madden because it's a 4 down football game.... kids play Madden because of the 30+ year history, the millions of dollars invested in making and marketing the game, the fact that it's THE football game that everyone else would play. The gambling idea and fantasy football.... Who the hell plays fantasy hockey right now in Canada for the AHL? Why would anyone in the States join a fantasy football for the CFL/XFL when they have no idea of who the hell anyone on the roster is AND/OR when their already is a bazillion well established NFL fantasy football leagues. Sports betting is huge in Europe... but it's not like they are betting on Canadian Football or were betting on the XFL/AAFL. XFL/AAF Attendances were weak as hell, most markets had less then 15 000 people per game which is dreadful. The Arena Football league had 7000 per game. These 3 leagues had "TV" deals on big networks. Outside of Baltimore most of the American teams in the CFL had sub 15 000 people per game back in 94 and 95. The XFL ratings were absolutely dismal despite being broadcasted and marketed to so many big areas. They dropped sharply , indicating very little interest. Outside of The Rock is a cool guy and makes tonnes of money in his movies... I don't see any possible logic or anything that indicates that whoring the league out will help it out in the long term. So even if the CFL sells itself to The Rock for 80 million dollars... what happens in 2 years when The Rock's group doesn't feel like losing 50 million plus each year and decide to pull the plug. What does Ambrosie do then?

The Goldeyes and Moose 1.0 both played with the same rule sets of the big leagues and had little to no success with younger fans. Goldeyes is full of seniors out for a nice night out and the Moose had lots of younger families also out for a cheap night out. You never saw 15 - 40 year old people wearing jerseys or merch or talk about them. I saw way more people my age associating with major league teams (Leafs, Blue Jays, Habs, NYY etc...). It would be completely ignorant to think that the reason younger demographics gravitate towards the NFL over the CFL is because of the difference in rule set. It has a wee bit more to do with massive mainstream popularity, being the league with the best football players period, being fashionable/trendy etc.... The only reason the CFL has survived is because of it's unique rules and field and players. If you want a preview of how shitty the game would look then watch some AAFL or XFL games, I did and it was sloppy as hell and very amateurish. The larger field, 3 downs, motion, etc... helps big time on giving the Offence a better chance of making exciting plays. Certain guys who don't fit the 4 down game can excel big time in the CFL because they can gain an edge. If they make the changes then the CFL will need to do some drastic changes such as slashing tickets to $10 - 15 dollars each and really make an emphasis on it being a night out of fun with the football game itself being a secondary priority. Unlike a few other people on here... I don't like the "We might as well settle with what we can get". I'd rather have what I love then settle and be miserable with something I don't love.

Do I need to post a link for how many BILLIONS of dollars the WWE is getting on their latest deal with NBC? I'm pretty sure himself & the company are very savy when it comes to tv deals. Possibly the best.

I'm sure the CFL could get some money (not a lot) from a streaming service down south. But I'd imagine it would not be anything significant or saving the league type of money.

Once again ... betting odds does not mean % of chance of a team winning. It's more about how much money is being place on (in this case a team) over others.

So Laine has had points in only 1 game in his last 10..... I don't think Columbus is a good fit for him lol.

Maybe we need more size on the D? That's what she said?