Very little Stampeder news during the off season. Once the season ends, the two local newspapers have virtually no coverage. This season has been a bit different with the redblacks coming into the league with free agency & dispersal draft but other than that we can go weeks in the off season without a single CFL or Stamps story in the media. Take the recent Bomber free agent camp that is taking place in Florida. The Bombers had a couple of media people from Winnipeg as well as Bob Irving down there to cover it for Bomber fans. Plenty of stories & interviews during that time for fanC to take in. Here in calgary, the Stamps 3 day free agent camp is taking place this weekend & not a single media person from Calgary is down there covering it. The event is invisible.The  one thing I can say is when the day comes that the Stampeders have a bad team & don't make the playoffs anymore, the media in this town will totally check out on the CFL. You may have Paul Wiecek & Gary Lawless covering the Bombers & they create controversy but it's better than apathy from the media which is what we get in this town. The Stampeders don't even have a dedicated beat writer covering them from the Herald. They use different reporters during the season. And none of them have any connections in the CFL so there's never any analysis or breakdowns during the season. 

Wish I could have been there ...

Flames fans are bandwagon jumpers anyway. The Saddledome wasn't ever full before Iginla and Kiprusoff carried that team to the finals in 04 and after that everyone jumped on board. Now that the team is **** again you're seeing people opt not to go. If not for the massive corporate ticket base I wonder if they would actually sell out or not. 

Wait...was someone in here actually trying to say that there's national support for basketball in this country? Lol...awesome.

Probably has a lot to do with Calgary being a city of newer residences.

Probably has a lot to do with Calgary being a city of newer residences.

city of douchebags is much more accurate.

I think it's the large number of immigrants from outside the country - don't identify with the CFL game.  Football or American Football as it's known around the world, is not all that well-known and receives little or no exposure outside of North America.  Similar case with inter-provincial migration, but not as extreme - people moving to Calgary from places like the Maritimes and Newfoundland have little to no exposure to the CFL at a local level so they have little interest in it even when they move to a CFL city like Calgary.  I'm sure many people moving from cities with CFL teams chose to retain their home town alliances instead of adopting the stamps as their favorite team...if they liked the CFL at all to begin with.

I think it's the large number of immigrants from outside the country - don't identify with the CFL game.  Football or American Football as it's known around the world, is not all that well-known and receives little or no exposure outside of North America.  Similar case with inter-provincial migration, but not as extreme - people moving to Calgary from places like the Maritimes and Newfoundland have little to no exposure to the CFL at a local level so they have little interest in it even when they move to a CFL city like Calgary.  I'm sure many people moving from cities with CFL teams chose to retain their home town alliances instead of adopting the stamps as their favorite team...if they liked the CFL at all to begin with.

 

Immigrants!  I knew it was them.

 

Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them.