Comment 81599

By davidsfawcett (registered) - website | Posted October 14, 2012 at 12:24:08

You've gotta give the Ticats and Mr. Young some credit. He bought the team out of bankruptcy and has learned the job of "sports franchise owner". He was already an experienced businessman and he came up with a business plan.

With the exception of playoff games and Labour Day, only about 23,000 folks are ever going to attend Ticat games. They looked at their costs and the bottom line, and determined how much money they need to take from each supporter. They realized the prices they must charge will require first class amenities and 23,000 seats between the goal lines. As much as I agree with Adrian's assessment of the design, aesthetics are probably irrelevant.

The best part of the deal is that once they're over the one-season-expense of playing elsewhere they get a made to order facility for about what they now pay to rent Ivor Wynne and we, the taxpayers, are on the hook for the cost. I'm a CFL fan and this bothers me. Those who don't care about the Ticats could be rioting in the streets.

I didn't renew my Ticat seasons tickets 4 years ago when they decided to up the cost by 40%, because believed it ought to have been done incrementally and I told them as much. I'm certainly not going to pay $68 a pop, as they do in Montréal, to sit between the goal lines. Oskie wee wee.

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