Tickets for Toronto games

[geargo]

This just does not make sense to me, I can pay $250.00 for a game in Toronto. Or I can take a bus tour to Buffalo for 150.00 which gets me a ride to and from the game, some drinks and a tailgate party. For $250.00 in toronto there is not even a place to have a tailgate party

[ugo]

This just does not make sense to me, I can pay $250.00 for a game in Toronto. Or I can take a bus tour to Buffalo for 150.00 which gets me a ride to and from the game, some drinks and a tailgate party. For $250.00 in toronto there is not even a place to have a tailgate party

It makes perfect sense. The tickets in Toronto are not for you. They are Corporate seats for Corporations. Just like $400 leaf tickets aren't for you.

[geargo]

It makes perfect sense. The tickets in Toronto are not for you. They are Corporate seats for Corporations. Just like $400 leaf tickets aren't for you.

Yep, Toronto sports are not for the fans anymore...At least with the Argos i can get a ticket for $60.00 and get a football game in.. Hockey? last time I went the tickets were almost $200.00.. And I am not a fan of Basketball or soccer so that leaves a fan like me out in the cold.

[TigerTough]

The Press Conference seems to still be a go for Wednesday.

This was just released.


Buffalo Bills to unveil details about Toronto games at news conference

40 minutes ago

TORONTO - The Buffalo Bills will unveil details about the eight games they will play in Toronto over the next five years at a news conference Wednesday.

Representatives from both the NFL club and the Rogers Centre will be available.

On Friday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed the league had reached an agreement with the Bills allowing them to play eight games - five regular-season contests and three exhibitions - in Toronto over the next five years.

The Bills will play a regular-season game at Rogers Centre each year (2008 to 2012) and hold exhibition contests there in 2008, 2010 and 2012. The NFL will determine when the games are played and the opponents.

The Bills are expected to outline the policy for ticket sales for the game. Buffalo season-ticket holders, along with those of the Toronto Argonauts, are expected to receive priority in a ticket lottery. The median price for tickets is expected to be C$250 and fans not only must commit to all eight games but do so up front.

However, the CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats aren't participating in the plan. Owner Bob Young made that announcement Tuesday, citing the lack of a formal working agreement between the NFL and CFL.

Games in mid-to-late December are harder for the Bills to sell out because of weather concerns. That wouldn't be a problem in Toronto as the Rogers Centre is a domed facility.

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iRowhkctde3eLeCffmQJJkK9W8LQ

[Bravo82]

i would CONSIDER paying $250 for a regular season game, but no way in hell am i paying $250 for a meaningless preseason game. that is the reason why i wont be buying the whole package. we can only hope that they end up selling individual seats to the games because i am not about to shell out hundreds to buy from a scalper.

[geargo]

i would CONSIDER paying $250 for a regular season game, but no way in hell am i paying $250 for a meaningless preseason game. that is the reason why i wont be buying the whole package. we can only hope that they end up selling individual seats to the games because i am not about to shell out hundreds to buy from a scalper.

There is no way I am paying that price and having to buy the whole package to boot. that is just unfair...

[geargo]

Canadian Football Act
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Canadian Football Act (1974) was a proposed Act by the Parliament of Canada in April 1974 designed to block the World Football League (WFL) Toronto charter team, and protect the Canadian Football League (CFL). Although it was never signed into law, the move by the government eventually compelled the WFL's Toronto Northmen team to move to Memphis, Tennessee in the United States. Today, there is speculation that a similar act will develop if the National Football League (NFL) tries to expand to Toronto and thus threatens the Canadian league's existence.[1] However, some legal scholars have warned that such a law enacted today might violate the North American Free Trade Agreement.


[edit] List of the bill's details
Designated C-22.
Introduced by the Minister of Health, Marc Lalonde.
Claimed it would try and protect the Canadian Football League, would allow the CFL to grow and develop its own distinct character
Of the mayors of the nine CFL cities at the time, only three were against the Canadian Football Act. They were the mayors of Vancouver, Montréal and Toronto, also the biggest cities of Canada then and now (Montréal playing host to one of the World League of American Football (WLAF) teams (Montréal Machine) in the early 1990s when their CFL team folded)
After the bill passed second reading in the Canadian House of Commons, it was given to the Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Social Affairs, where it effectively died after the Northmen moved to Memphis.
Clause 6 in the act stated that no person that owns, operates, or manages a team in a league foreign from the CFL shall play in Canada. Subsection 2 stated that no player or member of the said team shall play in Canada, therefore if the bill passed and became law, it would effectively kill teams like the Northmen.
These facts were gathered from the actual debates held in the House of Commons from April 10 to April 28, 1974.

[dqw 87]

The funny part is fans get in trouble for scalping. But the league has no problem doing it themselves.

[geargo]

The funny part is fans get in trouble for scalping. But the league has no problem doing it themselves.

Well maybe the Canadian Football Act will be brought back to Parliment