Comment 46797

By realfreeenterpriser (registered) | Posted August 30, 2010 at 23:30:52

"I would rather loose the ti-cats than give McMaster a reason to wriggle out of their employment lands plan."

I think that, in the end, we will realize that the Tiger-Cats started a slide into oblivion the day Bob Young wrote his letter saying they wouldn't play at the West Harbour; bursting Hamilton's Pan-Am bubble and leaving years of planning in the dust. Regardless of what happens tomorrow (and I believe there are worse sights than Longwood/Aberdeen) many of the very people that the Tiger-Cats need to attract, the young, educated and well-to-do, have been turned off for good.

Following along Mark Chamberlain's distinction, the existing Tiger-Cat fans are loyal to a "team" not a "business". But there simply aren't enough of them and they tend to be older and their support comes in the form of the purchase of very low-priced tickets. Raise the prices and they won't come. Wait ten years and they'll be dead.

And who will follow? The rest of Hamilton has watched what a "business" does when its opponent is vulnerable and they won't like it. The loyalty that is paid to a team, won't be there for a business. The treatment that Hamilton received will be returned in spades.

The CFL has been in dire straights in southern Ontario for years. It needs a new generation to embrace its game and, in Hamilton's case, its stadium. But you can't fall in love with a business and wherever the Tiger-Cats eventually play, that generation has seen enough.

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