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And if the CFL has that attitude they better hope the TV deal $$$ keeps rising exponentially, because if you're talking diehards who will go no matter what you're looking at 20,000 per city in the West and significantly less in the East.  Gate revenue will be stagnant at best.
 
They are in competition with many factors for getting butts in seats, including TSN now.

If Brohm starts this week, the Al's defense is going to have a really fun night.....

Simple math, there are 9 teams so one team has to sit out each week, since we play each team twice (at least) every team gets 2 byes over the course of the year. Impossible to eliminate one bye per team unless the schedule has that goofy "sandwich a third game mid-week between the 2 normal weekend games" stretch and make every CFL team do it.
 
Easiest way to shorten the season and keep a reasonable schedule with reasonable rest (i.e. 6-8 days) between games: shorten the season to 16 games. Every team plays every team twice (one home, one road) and gets 2 byes. 18 week schedule instead of 20. Season starts Canada Day week (last game of the week played no later than July 1), Labour Day week therefore is week 10, regular season is done before Halloween, playoffs end no later than November 18 every year. This is how it was before 1986 (they actually had 4 pre-season games then too, but it was felt that 4 exhibition games were too many and weren't profitable enough to justify the expense).
 
Of course, extra "real" games mean extra revenue, so the league will not ever want to shorten the schedule back to 16.

Wasn't Elliott with BC for training camp?

We got a little preview tonight. At least one of the people on the sidelines is wearing a shirt based on the jersey.

O'Shea said same lineup so that means no Aaron Woods. I'm disappointed by that decision too.