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02-04-2008, 07:17 PM
Just heard on the FAN 590 that the owner of the Tiger cats wants nothing to do with his team and an aggreement with Ted rogers and the Buffalo bills.
Bob Young the owner of the TiCats like Ted rogers, has more money then he knows what to do with. So Ted could have a fight on his hands if he trys to move the Bills to Toronto full time. He took the Ticats and turned them around and had sell outs for most of his games.
Here are a couple of articles.
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced in a statement Monday that the team will not participate with the Rogers Stadium Limited Partnership that will bring eight Buffalo Bills games to The Rogers Centre in Toronto.
"We feel that bringing NFL games to stadiums in Canada without a comprehensive agreement between the CFL and the NFL will lead to unintended consequences, not all of them good," said Ticats owner Bob Young in the release.
"The CFL is Canada's premier professional sports league, as the NFL is the premier sports league in the US. We are looking forward to a mutually beneficial agreement resulting from discussions between the CFL and NFL."
On Friday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed during his state-of-the-union address in Arizona that the league approved a proposal from the Bills to play eight games over the next five years in Toronto.
Buffalo would stage a regular-season contest at Rogers Centre each season, starting in 2008, and also play three exhibition games every other year.
Under the initial agreement, Toronto Argonaut, Ticats and Bills season-ticket holders would receive priority for purchasing tickets for the Toronto games.
Tanenbaum suggested the NFL's foray into Canada would not harm the Argos, Ticats or the CFL.
"The two leagues can co-exist," he said yesterday. "It's eight games over five years."
B.C. Lions president Bob Ackles disagrees.
"That's no CFL, no Grey Cup and, in the end, no minor football in Canada because kids will see they don't have a chance to play pro ball," Ackles told the Vancouver Province earlier this week. "[Goodell] will handle it very diplomatically but this is the tip of the 'berg. It might take some time but you can see where this is going."
Cohon took a softer approach.
"I think there would have to be so many things we would have to discuss," Cohon said after arriving in Phoenix. "I do know there would be major challenges for our league, which is the oldest professional sports league in North America. This is not just about sport, this is about our country, and this is about the cultural significance of our game."
Cohon said Goodell informed him of Buffalo's proposal a day after finding out for himself, and the two have held several discussions over the past few months. Toronto's regular-season games will likely be scheduled for December, after the Grey Cup, to avoid a conflict with the most important part of the CFL schedule.
There have also been preliminary discussions for having CFL games carried by the NFL Network.
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Bob Young the owner of the TiCats like Ted rogers, has more money then he knows what to do with. So Ted could have a fight on his hands if he trys to move the Bills to Toronto full time. He took the Ticats and turned them around and had sell outs for most of his games.
Here are a couple of articles.
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced in a statement Monday that the team will not participate with the Rogers Stadium Limited Partnership that will bring eight Buffalo Bills games to The Rogers Centre in Toronto.
"We feel that bringing NFL games to stadiums in Canada without a comprehensive agreement between the CFL and the NFL will lead to unintended consequences, not all of them good," said Ticats owner Bob Young in the release.
"The CFL is Canada's premier professional sports league, as the NFL is the premier sports league in the US. We are looking forward to a mutually beneficial agreement resulting from discussions between the CFL and NFL."
On Friday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed during his state-of-the-union address in Arizona that the league approved a proposal from the Bills to play eight games over the next five years in Toronto.
Buffalo would stage a regular-season contest at Rogers Centre each season, starting in 2008, and also play three exhibition games every other year.
Under the initial agreement, Toronto Argonaut, Ticats and Bills season-ticket holders would receive priority for purchasing tickets for the Toronto games.
Tanenbaum suggested the NFL's foray into Canada would not harm the Argos, Ticats or the CFL.
"The two leagues can co-exist," he said yesterday. "It's eight games over five years."
B.C. Lions president Bob Ackles disagrees.
"That's no CFL, no Grey Cup and, in the end, no minor football in Canada because kids will see they don't have a chance to play pro ball," Ackles told the Vancouver Province earlier this week. "[Goodell] will handle it very diplomatically but this is the tip of the 'berg. It might take some time but you can see where this is going."
Cohon took a softer approach.
"I think there would have to be so many things we would have to discuss," Cohon said after arriving in Phoenix. "I do know there would be major challenges for our league, which is the oldest professional sports league in North America. This is not just about sport, this is about our country, and this is about the cultural significance of our game."
Cohon said Goodell informed him of Buffalo's proposal a day after finding out for himself, and the two have held several discussions over the past few months. Toronto's regular-season games will likely be scheduled for December, after the Grey Cup, to avoid a conflict with the most important part of the CFL schedule.
There have also been preliminary discussions for having CFL games carried by the NFL Network.
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