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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Sports Argument Stadium > The Football Funhouse > 2014 CFL Offseason News/Views
 
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May 1, 2013

by Lowtax

Stickarts posted:

Truth that Rouge et Noire sounds and looks way more acceptable - it comes across as very (Euro) footbally, and I mean that in a good way. ALLCAPS REDBLACKS is a little too 47th chromosome for me.

AND LOOKIT THAT LOGO. It is not even approaching exaggeration that I could come up with something better than that on the spot. Right now. I mean look at it.

Anyway, speaking of French marketing - I am very interested to see how Montreal does now that maybe the CFL's greatest QB ever isn't there anymore. Pretty easy to get 20,000+ to a game when the Roughriders are losing you're winning cup after cup and have been contenders since the team returned the mid-90s. If the downturn has begun for the Als I wonder/worry if they will be relegated to also ran within the next few years.

Montreal definitely is a
Hockey







Everything else
sort of town, hopefully the support is deeply enough entrenched there.

Montreal is an event town. Other than Canadiens hockey, they fill stadiums and arenas for big events, not necessarily for the sake of sports.

That's why the city is famous for one-off boxing fights, wrestling events, concerts, festivals, stand-up, etc... It's also why when the Impact were in the B-League and made it far into the CONCACAF Champions League, they filled the Olympic Stadium, or why the Blue Jays pre-season games are also going to fill the Olympic Stadium.

If the Als continue to do relatively well, they won't have attendance problems. I wouldn't worry too much about that

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