Does anybody care about having an NFL team in Toronto?

Question

I personally don't want to see an NFL team in Toronto. I think they should keep the Toronto Argonauts as the only professional football team in Toronto. CFL has been around a lot longer then the NFL and I don't want anything to happen to the CFL.

What do you think?

Answer 1

Not only do I think it's a bad idea to move an NFL team to Toronto, I think it's a bad idea to try and make football popular in other parts of the world when it obviously will not work! That said, if they did move a team to Canada, it wouldn't really bother me because football is(to some degree) a big deal up in Canada(behind hockey), where as soccer is THE major sport in every other part of the world.

Answer 2

I agree with you... Why ruin a good thing by pushing a bunch of 'prima donnas' on our Canadian friends... Besides, real men don't play in the NFL.

Answer 3

no way

Answer 4

Canadians are against it by a wide margin as it would negatively impact the whole CFL not just the team in Toronto.  The NFL will not allow a team to set up in Tornto before they get one in LA anyways.  Bills are just trying to drive up the price of the team or get a better lease deal from the stadium.

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Answer 5

No way.CFL all the way.

Answer 6

It would be catostrophic to the CFL and football if Toronto got an NFL team. The Argos would fold, and so would the CFL. 100 years of tradition down the drain. We already çan't support a team in the nation's capital. To lose Canada's biggest market would finish the CFL.

Answer 7

I still don't know why the baseball teams are in Canada. How anti-American is that?

Answer 8

I don't think having NFL play in Canada is not gonna change the CFL. NFL playing in Canadian soil is a way of respecting or supporting Canada in some sort of way, so it is an honor to do so.

Answer 9

A team will never move to Toronto so long as the Bills are in Buffallo. Canadians are the reason the Bills are still afloat. Two teams in one region over-saturates the market. I mean c'mon the New England Patriots ensure that a football team would NEVER go to Boston. The bills are doing the same to Toronto. The Bills will move one day, and Toronto will have a team one day (im talking 20 years type of "one day"). It would be rediculous for the NFL to not to try and capitalize on the 4th largest city in North America, yes Toronto IS the 4th largest city in North America. The Argo's aren't going anywhere though. Remember what happened to Krispie Kreme when they tried to kill Timmy Ho's? Krispie went out of business in Canada. Not comparing doughnuts to football, just showing that Canadian's have the undeniable ability to save distinctly Canadian things from being lost. Cheers.

Answer 10

I personally don't, but the people in Toronto probably would love it...

Answer 11

I would love to see the NFL expand to canada and everyone living in toronto should feel the same way, the game is better the rules are better, the players are better and the refs are better. The NFL as a league is superior to the CFL no matter what all those hardcore canadians say, I would watch a NFL regular season game rather than watch the grey cup, just face it the CFL is bush.

Answer 12

Well, I live way out here in North Carolina, but I will be glad to help in any way I can.

Answer 13

We don't need the NFL in Canada.  Supposedly the NFL and CFL have cooperative operational agreements.  I don't know how that works with plans by some Toronto people to spend a billion dollars on an NFL team.  

The comparision with pro baseball does not quite compute, because we have no comparable level baseball league in Canada that was damaged by the Expos or the Jays.

Answer 14

keep the crapy nfl game out of canada!

Answer 15

As a fan and supporter of BOTH leagues I find this a tough call. Toronto has not exactly supported the Argo's in an amazing way for a long time now. They get decent attendance, and decent support but not as much as would think from an area the size of Toronto.

So I guess loosing Toronto to the NFL would not be too bad as long as the moved the Agro's to a good location like the Maritimes.

Now from the NFL fan side of me, I love to see NFL teams in Canada. It would hurt the CFL in Toronto for sure. But I sure would like to see a live NFL game!

Answer 16

I'm from Toronto, and I don't want any NFL team here. Especially the Bills.

Answer 17

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Answer 18

I live in Toronto, and if we got an NFL team, I would look into buying season's tickets.  I've been to CFL games in Toronto, Winnipeg, and Calgary, and I'm a fan of the Canadian game, but the NFL takes it to another level, in terms of on-field talent, and fan support.  I'm a die-hard Seattle Seahawks fan, and the atmosphere at Qwest Field that I see on TV every week has never been matched at any CFL game I've attended.

Now, I will say that the Rogers Centre is too small to house an NFL team in this day and age, and I'm not entirely sure where the city could build an 80,000 seat stadium.  It would hafta be somewhere in the suburbs, I'm guessing.  I also don't doubt that whatever group from Toronto goes after the Bills, they'll likely be outbid by an American ownership group.  I wouldn't be suprised if the billionaire owner of the Buffalo Sabres bought the team and kept them in upstate New York.

But to answer the initial question, I'd say that there are plenty of Torontonians who care about having a NFL team here.  For some people, holding Jays, Leafs and Raptors season's tickets aren't enough, and they need to be a NFL season's ticket-holder in order to justify their existence as a member of the uber-elite...

Answer 19

the NFL is for America and nowhere else.  A team in Toronto would be horrible.  Just let them go see the Bills play or something.

Answer 20

As an American, I'm totally against it....bad enough that 90% of all CFL team players are Americans....keep the NFL in the USA!