With Rookie Camps getting underway Wednesday, it's time to talk about the 2026 CFL season!

The new Stamps uniforms really are awful. Weird number font. “CGY” plastered all over. Mono colour PJ look.

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50 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

The way I see it. Change the name back to Eskimos & you attract another 25000 fans to the games at CWS. people can pull out their old Eskimo gear & wear it with pride again. Remember, the demographic of CFL fans are older so they have experienced tradition. Take that away & it makes peoplke angry. The Eskimo fanbase wasn't consulted. it was a unilateral decision by the BOD's. They rightly felt excluded & not heard. They're letting the tone deaf Elks organization know how they feel with their wallets & the team refuses to listen. Someone on the Internet is saying the Elks should move to Quebec City. Maybe they should.

Calgary's issue is stadium & ownership. McMahon is a dump. Fans no longer want to go watch the Stamps. Throw in an owner who doesn't care about the fans or the team & you have tons of apathy. They need a new owner. Someone who is engaged with the fans. As well as a new building.

Ottawa is the team. A decade of shitty management & coaching. Nothing ever changes. Fans thought Ryan Dinwiddie would come in & instantly turn things around. pretty hard when Dinwioddie plays Jake Maier over Dru brown. Which tells you just how bad Browna ctually is. No leadership sills at all. Average arm. Injury prone. I see atrade coming for Nick Arbuckle & soon. Give Ottawa a winning team & the fans will come back.

Hamilton is an enigma. Haven't won a Grey Cup in 28 years. They have the best qb in the CFL right now. He's on fire. They have the best receiving corps & a young exciting running back. Defense looks like it's championship calibre. And they can't get more than 15000-20000 to the games. Go figure.

no chance.

The demographic isn’t what it was 8-10 years ago. The only markets with growth or decent crowds are no longer old people. The old fans are a larger piece of the tv viewership but if you look around any decent market today you see a ton more young people then old.

That’s part of the real problem, and the solution to attendance issues isn’t to pander to the boomer generation more.

Built a rum hut complete with atmosphere and you’ll see way more fans in edmonton then by changing the name back.

Edmonton filled the stadium with young people for a soccer game in bad weather. Branding isn’t the issue.

43 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:

Have to wonder if the attendance being down in a lot of venues is also a reflection of the economy right now. Hamilton has been hit pretty hard by tariffs etc.

general economic situation isn’t helping, but for rum hut type fans you can have a pretty cheap night out in the cfl. The dip hit before the economy dipped and it didn’t bounce back like much of the live entertainment scene.

CFL has lost generations of fans in pretty all of the markets and they ain’t getting them back any time soon

Yes. This isn’t just cfl related. Concerts are being cancelled because tickets aren’t selling.

Young white people are not having kids and the fans are all aging out. Its a sad slow demise.

The only way to get people at the games is making it an experience for young people....so a rum hut is the ultimate solution.

Any fan that doesn't come to Edmonton games because they want to call them Eskimos is not a fan I want to be around...

I 100% agree that spring football doesn't work for casual fans. It's meant to be a summertime sport.

2 hours ago, wbbfan said:

no chance.

The demographic isn’t what it was 8-10 years ago. The only markets with growth or decent crowds are no longer old people. The old fans are a larger piece of the tv viewership but if you look around any decent market today you see a ton more young people then old.

That’s part of the real problem, and the solution to attendance issues isn’t to pander to the boomer generation more.

Built a rum hut complete with atmosphere and you’ll see way more fans in edmonton then by changing the name back.

Edmonton filled the stadium with young people for a soccer game in bad weather. Branding isn’t the issue.

general economic situation isn’t helping, but for rum hut type fans you can have a pretty cheap night out in the cfl. The dip hit before the economy dipped and it didn’t bounce back like much of the live entertainment scene.

It'll take more than a Rum Hut to get the fans back in edmonton. I used to think the same as you. A name is a name is a name. Who cares, right? After what we've seen, we have to consider that the decision was wrong. Morris is whining how hard the team has it since the name change. Change the name back & make the fanbase happy. I'm not convinced as many people are offended about the name as we may think.

3 hours ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Commonwealth stadium is no where near as bad as McMahon Stadium.

Canada is Third World when it comes to sports & outdoor stadium facilities. If it's not the NHL or soccer then no one cares. We see it in the World Cup in comparison to the US & Mexico. As well as the CFL. Percival Molson Stadium, McMahon Stadium, CWS. Hamilton Stadium is a wasteland. All very small & they're never filled anymore.

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I dunno. The name could play a role in Alberta. Eskimos was also a very popular and memorable name to people. Alberta leans a little right so I could see this being a problem there specifically just like I think less ppl would go to oilers games if they changed their name or were forced because of a vocal minority group of individuals. Rumours were the northern folk were ok with the name so why wouldn’t the others right. Alberta.

The lack of attendance is not because of the name change. If the owner thinks reverting the name will gain good will and bring back people to the games... then he is a moron.

The stadium, the bad teams, the fans aging out.. much larger factors. Seriously Wade Miller needs to be cloned in all of the cities , they do not know how to market and get people to the game for the non-football festivities.

Young people spend ridiculous cover charges and over priced drinks to get out and meet people... offer the young people fair priced drinks and a fun hut that serves rum... get the ladies out and it will then cause the men to follow and spend big money. Families always want to get out (I know other cities have way more options then Winnipeg) but still an affordable family event is always desired. Old people... well I'm not sure what brings them out... maybe promise them some prune juice and a free news paper? These cities need to make more of an effort to draw a crowd.

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