The CFL is really a "joke' of a league !! What other league has 2 years in a row of sub 500 teams winning the championship ??- Answer is none. This would "never" happen in the NFL or the NHL.
Toronto is the 3rd or 4th largest city in North America, and that city cannot even average over 16,000 fans per game--"that is pathetic" and Toronto doesn't deserve a winning team, with the apathetic fan base Toronto has. Greater Toronto area has 4-5 million people.
I'd like to see the CFL merge with the NFL, and it could be done on a revenue sharing basis, to help the smaller cities. I'm quite sure Winnipeg, Regina, and Edmonton could average at least 50,000 people per game. If this were done then -"maybe" the dispassionate fans of Toronto would show up ?
If you think it cannot be done-"think again"--as Green Bay is a small city and packs in 70,000 people for games. Reason is, the "whole state" of Wisconsin supports the club, and I think the Canadian provinces would do the same.
I'm surprised the CFL is still functional, but when we lost Ottawa, I was starting think, that was the beginning of the end. Something has to change here.
I guess the CFL will continue to "scrape by" and have the Eastern team's losses subsidized by their owners, but how long can that last ? It's only a matter of time, til it collapses.