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Here’s another reason for the folks in Toronto to try to finagle as many Buffalo Bills games as possible.
The CFL team that plays there might not be very good.
On Thursday night, the Argos were ambushed by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 32-13. Hamilton hadn’t won in Toronto since 2001, and finished last season with a woeful 3-15 record.
Leading the way for Hamilton was former Chiefs quarterback Casey Printers, who had tried unsuccessfully to follow in the footsteps of men like Joe Theismann, Warren Moon, and Jeff Garcia by making the jump from the CFL to the NFL. Printers threw for 171 yards and rushed for 32, scoring two touchdowns.
For the Argos, former NFL receiver Bethel Johnson caught only one pass for 11 yards, and former NFL quarterback Michael Bishop stayed on the sidelines, with former NFL defensive back Kerry Joseph getting the reps.
Another former NFL defensive back, Willie Middlebrooks, who was the league’s defensive player of the week after the first round of regular-season game, didn’t play due for the Argos to a foot injury.
July 4th, 2008 at 8:43 am
I think it might be most interesting to point out as far as former NFL players are concerned, that Argos QB Kerry Joseph played several years in the NFL with the Seattle Seahawks… as a DB.
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July 4th, 2008 at 8:59 am
LA is ready for the Bills
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July 4th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Bethel Johnson caught only one pass because he got hurt and left the game early on. Until that point, he was looking very good.
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July 4th, 2008 at 9:15 am
ampats,that’s not a nice thing to even think of,no
team deserves that kind of death sentence.
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July 4th, 2008 at 9:41 am
the team loses by 20 points so the city is ready for an nfl team?
logic: Logic (from Classical Greek λόγος logos; meaning word, thought, idea, argument, account, reason, or principle) is the study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
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July 4th, 2008 at 9:47 am
You know it’s the slowwwww part of the NFL season when Florio is giving us CFL updates. I live in Toronto…and I don’t really care (which probably make me a bad Canadian).
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July 4th, 2008 at 9:59 am
No matter what Goodell says, I still think it is a forgone conclusion that the Bills are playing in Toronto fulltime in 2013.
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July 4th, 2008 at 10:15 am
The real story last night was the play of Jesse Lumsden the Canadian born running back of the Hamilton Tiger Cats (20 carries for 189 yards). A powerful, shifty back who tore a hole in the Argos defence.
It’s great to see the CFL stories on the site.
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July 4th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I told ya’ll that Bethel Johnson would tear up the CFL.
Oops. I didn’t know he’d have a former NFL DB throwing to him instead of covering him.
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July 4th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Props also to NFL castoff RB Jesse Lumsden who is the real reason the ticats destroyed the argos.
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July 5th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
“Rob0769 says:
July 4th, 2008 at 9:59 am
No matter what Goodell says, I still think it is a forgone conclusion that the Bills are playing in Toronto fulltime in 2013.”
And that’s based on your same unnamed sources from a prior post stating that the real reason for the Bills season ticket increase to 53,000 is because it’s really Canadians buying those season tix?
My advice–stick to teams you know, like the Cheatahs. Ever occur to you that fans in the Buffalo area might also be excited about a young up and coming team like the Bills–that might explain it a little more simply than a sudden influx of folks from Canada. Don’t get me wrong, the Bills have always had their share of fans from North of the border and that’s fine, but I honestly don’t see that contingent somehow increasing as the reason behind this year’s season ticket sales rise (which is only about 5k more than last year, BTW).
What you don’t seem to understand is that unlike some teams in much larger cities (say, like Boston) that had only 19,000 season ticket in 1992, folks in Buffalo are actually real fans who love their team win or lose and that’s why our season ticket base never goes below about 40,000 even when we go 3-13. It’s too bad the economy’s a shambles up there, but the League will have a hard time convincing folks that the move is because people aren’t willing to buy tickets to the games (at least at current prices). No, they just want folks (and more importantly, companies) that can pay much more to be the fannies filling the seats, whether they’re real fans or not…..
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July 6th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
LA is a foreign city now, the most popular sport is soccer.
Toronto Bills? No, they will need a new name…
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