Monday, October 21, 2013
CFL needs to get on board with Sportsnet to grow bigger and stronger throughout the league
The CFL TV ratings are getting stronger and stronger over season after season and the players are laughing all the way to the bank with the salary cap strong at 4.4 million in 2013. The top stars especially quarterbacks who usually ranged from 400,000 to 600,000 while other stars make 150,000 to 200,000 a season like Jon Cornish or Corey Sheets at running backs or Chad Owens or Fred Stamps at wide receiver while on D guys like Chip Cox or Charleston Hughes so they are not getting NFL money and would jump at a NFL tryout but it is better than it has been in the past as it was 4.05 million salary cap back in 2007.
It is always a strong league when the heart and solo of the league the Saskatchewan Roughriders are going well but the likes who the Toronto Argos, Hamilton Ticats, and BC Lions will be drowning in red ink each and every season.
So to help the weak franchises the CFL will be wise to go outside of the TSN universe by separating the East division and the West division just like the NFL has CBS doing the AFC and Fox doing the NFC as it brings in more money than if it was all on one station. So the CFL should open up the West Division to all bidders to bring the most money and whoever does not get the very rich West division with higher ratings (Saskatchewan, Calgary, Edmonton, and soon to be Winnipeg) they can get the poor ratings of the Eastern Division (Toronto and Hamilton i.e. southern Ontario does not want the CFL and are hoping for the NFL coming to town).
They separate the division more money coming which would cover more of the losses of the Argos, Ticats, and Lions build every season so that BC or Toronto host Grey Cups like every time I.E. BC will host the 2014 Grey Cup which means that Toronto or BC will host the big game 3 of the last 4 seasons.
The TV rights would go like this if a West team plays an East Team than the road team broadcasters broadcast the game which would give the Eastern broadcaster for 4 high rated games (Saskatchewan, Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg) for each team with the Ottawa RedBlacks coming back into the league which would be a tempting bone to chew on.
If they do not go with the duel broadcasters it will be up to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Calgary Stampede, and Edmonton Eskimos paying the bills for the bigger cities but sadly I think that it is unlikely that it happens and TSN will be the solo TV broadcaster for the great Canadian football league going forward.
I would love a balance league with a 10 team league with maritime team so that it is not a 9 team league and teams play 3 games in two weeks
Tom Mehegan
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