Also...the location that you think is great for an NFL-calibre stadium wouldn't work unless the Sheppard Subway was extended west from Sheppard to Sheppard West stadium, and perhaps a little further west to make the stadium easily accessible. Sheppard West as it is now would be overwhelmed, not to mention Dufferin Street and the Allen Expressway.
Bad stats from the start. Toronto has a total population of around 2.85 million. The 'metro' area (downtown) has less. The GTA (Greater Toronto Area) - which is AROUND Toronto but not part of it - has 6.8 million people. You probably should have done more research before making a video.
@@CharlieND What, are you 12 years old? Downtown has been referred to as Metro Toronto for decades. Again, you'd know this if you had bothered to do actual research for your shitty opinion piece.
So, apparently a lot of the people who watched this video lack basic listening skills and completely missed the point I was trying to make. The purpose of this video isn't to discuss the reasons why I think the city should get a team or if I think it will ever get one, the purpose of this video is to showcase my idea for how the city could accommodate a hypothetical team. So any of you who are commenting "Toronto won't get a team" or anything along those lines, congratulations, you missed the point.
It needs to go BEFORE you get to Toronto coming from Windsor... Windsor, Chatham, London, Woodstock alone are 2 Million people who WILL drive 2-4 hours for a game.... NFL is 8 games a year...SITE WILL NOT MATTER...as long as traffic is smooth. Every Hotel would add a shuttle bus if this happened as well around the YYZ airport.
I’m going to dispute what you said about the Penguins, because it’s entirely wrong and I’m kind of sick of people repeating without actual looking up the facts. Civic Arena held around 17,000. When the Pens were absolutely terrible (before Mario and before Crosby), around 14k people were still in attendance. The reason the Penguins almost moved was terrible ownership getting more and more into debt, and not because fans stopped attending games.
What a joke. Canadians never support anything. Americans fill 100,000 seats for college football. Australians fill 100,000 seat stadiums for Aussie rules football. Most countries have stadiums larger than anything we have. The NFL plays games in other countries and get packed stadiums, but when they played in Toronto they got a lot of empty seats. We can't even fill a rinky dink stadium for our own football team, which has been around for 150 years. The other main reasons it will never happen is because no one is rich enough to buy a team and build a stadium, and the prime reason is because most of the NFL's money comes from TV revenue. TV networks would not want to have their money going to a Canadian team because they would get zero revenue from advertising, thus, there is nothing in it for them. There is tailgating allowed and done at CFL games, here at BMO and well done in Hamilton every game, if it is tailgating that you think is the big draw.
The CFL only has 9 teams. Salary cap of $4.02 million USD. So the entire league combined. Every player on every roster combined is only $36.18 million usd. Aaron Rogers made $37.5 million last year. 17th highest paid player makes more than the ENTIRE CFL combined. So the CFL is not a real league. Just like the XFL is not a real league. And the PLL (the second largest lacrosse league ON EARTH) is not a real league. But Toronto is a REAL CITY (7,281,694 people in 2021). Buffalo 1,166,902 people. 7 times less people. And every American ON EARTH SAYS BUFFALO IS TORONTO'S TEAM. No. Buffalo would be the BEST TEAM IN THE LEAGUE IF THEY ACTUALLY HAD CANADA or ONTARIO's support....the reality is Toronto doesn't like Buffalo. Patriotic American's DO NOT cheer for CFL teams in Hamilton. And I know this is shocking to an American, but the reverse is true. Canadians don't cheer for cities in OTHER countries. Canadians cheer for the RAPTORS and JAYS....not....Minnesota, or Detroit. Canadians don't care about those cities, and people in Seattle don't care about Vancouver either! Toronto-Hamilton - 7,281,694 Houston - 7,149,642 Atlanta - 6,104,803 Philadelphia - 6,245,051 Miami - 6,138,333 Boston - 4,941,632 The greater Toronto region (GTHA) is larger than all of them. Therefore their NFL team would probably be as popular as the Falcons, Eagles, Dolphins, Patriots.... Bills are the BOTTOM of the NFL 3.7 billion = 30th place out of 32 teams... What do you expect it's only 1,166,902 people, and Canadians ARE NOT supporting Buffalo. JUST LIKE AMERICANS DON'T SUPPORT CANADIAN CITIES OR OUR CFL TEAMS. NFL team in Toronto would be INSTANTLY worth $5 billion dollars usd (instantly worth more than a team in Buffalo) FACTS. It would be the single SMARTEST location for an NFL team. Maybe catering to the San Antonio-New Braunfels-Austin region would be better. But Toronto has more people than San Antonio AND Austin combined....thinking Toronto would not work is truly braindead.
Downsview is every developer's wet dream. One thing I'd add about the car park: if we could authorize tailgating, we'd have an outdoor lot for it. Not having tailgating at a football game would suck
CFL is unwatchable trash Unwatchable joke of a league. it cannot grow, it has never grown BUT it is the only thing saskatchewan and alberta and manitoba have to watch....so they are VERY LOUD, and they pretend like Toronto cares about the CFL.. Toronto does not care about the Argo's They won like 2-3 years ago? Nobody cares. Nobody cares. CFL is NOT a real league
@@CharlieND I would LOVE an NFL team... what taxes? who is this clown? this pathetic CFL owner in the RU-vid comments... Hey Mr MEXICO go back to guadalajara focus on your own football league!
I think its a decent spot but I feel like north by the Downsview park station would be better because then you have GO connections meaning suburban fans would have better, faster, direct, and high capacity connections to the stadium. Then there would be an even less need for parking because of park and ride stations throughout the network.
I wonder if they allow Americans to sing O Canada when they need one for any of the Canadian teams visiting or if they ask Canadians in the US to do it.
Downsview Airport is NOT the answer...the ROAD infrastructure to and from the stadium SUCKS...it would be serviced by highway 401 which is the busiest highway on the continent, it sits at the north end of the Allen Expressway which is a mini highway that really does not go anywhere north or south...sure it is serviced OKAY by public transit (subway) but the road traffic in and out and around that area is a quagmire already...a new Toronto stadium would have to go outside the city, one of the suburbs around it...also the lands you are talking about to the NE (at the start of the vid) would face all sorts of environmental regulations and so putting a stadium there (I know you said no due to traffic on Steeles) would not work as they cancelled a highway back in the late 80s (Rouge River Expressway) due to environmental reasons so that location is a no for 2 reasons (and in truth the traffic reason ain't that much of an issue as it is near highway 407...my view is the feds should sell the Pickering Airport lands, built high speed rail between Pearson and Munroe (along highway 407, north of Dundas, and highway 6 to Hamilton) so that international airport traffic in the city is taken care of (Munroe is an international airport in Hamilton that is underutilized and so really only used for cargo), and then build the stadium at the Pickering Airport planned site...
I believe Moncton would be a great place for à New team. They have been attempting to come up with idées about how to host à CFL team there for the past few years so why not a CPL team, which doesnt réquire as much work to set up as a CFL team would. There is already a stadium that would fit à CPL team but it is not large enough for à CFL team. They would be a perfect addition.
Tell that to the people who sold out Commonwealth Stadium (biggest stadium in the country, by the way) to watch the Canada Men's team defeat Mexico. Canada is becoming more of a football nation with each passing day whether you like it or not.
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