Would the NFL Survive In Canada?

The National Football League could theoretically survive and be successful in a Canadian market. NFL Canada has been an ever growing add on to the NFL's marketing structure. NFL Canada provides encouragement for Canadians to show how they are Canada's biggest NFL fan, and it promotes Canadians to support their favorite teams. NFL Canada is now its own website, and is of course exclusively available to Canadians. Although this specific Canadian application has proven a loyal and determined fan base: Canada already has its own football league.

The CFL is uniquely Canadian, and has a vast fan base. Canada has a very small population in comparison to the USA, so could Canada really support two football leagues? As far as the CFL is concerned the answer is no. The CFL commissioner Mark Cohon and representatives from each of the CFL teams, have concluded that the CFL will definitely loose franchises if the NFL enters the country. There is also some resistance for Americans stating that they want the NFL to stay American. If the NFL expands into Canada then there will be the extra traveling concerns similar to that of which the NHL has to deal with. The NFL players have their own opinions as well, and i just can't see any of those southern Americans wanting to play in Canada during the winter months. Not even the CFL plays during the winter. In order to take this expansion seriously the NFL would have to totally revamp their schedule. Making a new schedule would not be something Americans would be in favour of, because football to them is tradition, and the timing of football is tradition. The new schedule would also conflict with much of the baseball season, which would result in more NFL games being played at the same time as baseball games. The NFL would lose a lot more money than they would make with the proposed Canada expansion.

So yes the NFL could survive in Canada, but with the strong CFL resistance, and numerous logistical concerns, it probably won't get the chance.

Could the N.F.L survive in Canada?

Although not recognized across the globe, American football is a huge sport in North America. One league in particular has had a lot of success. The N.F.L brings in millions of dollars in revenue from every team that is involved in its league. Unfortunately for the league there is not much opportunity for expansion in the United States as they have brought a team to almost every possible market. Therefore the next logical step for the N.F.L would be an international expansion into Canada. But is Canada a logical market for the league?

One thing that is known is that American football can succeed in Canada.The C.F.L has eight teams across Canada all of which have a very large fan base. There is not much difficulty attracting fans to come and watch football in Canada. The N.F.L has also had some success in Canada. The Buffalo Bills come to Toronto once a year to play a regular season game at the Rogers center. The game was first played last year, and sold out soon after tickets went on sale. With the success of the this first game the Bills have made an annual tradition of coming to Toronto to play one game a year. Toronto would be a great market for an N.F.L team as it has a population 5.5 million in the greater Toronto area, there are more than enough people to fill a stadium at every home game.

Ultimately if the N.F.L wants to expand the next best area for them to move into would be Toronto, and possibly into other Canadian cities.

Being the best may not drive sales.

The main goal of any sports team is to win the ultimate prize in there league. Whether it be the Stanley cup in hockey, the world series in baseball, or the Superbowl in football. Sports teams are built to win. But does having the best team year in and year out affect the sales of tickets negatively?

One team we can look at are the Detroit Red Wings of the national hockey league. The Red Wings are arguably the best hockey team in the N.H.L. They have made the playoffs every year since the year 2000 and have won the Stanley cup twice in that time. With so much success you would think that the Red Wings would sellout with every home game, but that is not the case. In fact, the Red Wings have had many troubles over the past years selling there tickets. Last season the Red Wings sold on average 14000 tickets a game, which still left about 6000 empty seats at every home game. Many economist have blamed the sagging economy and with the slow sales, stating that families cannot afford to spend there extra income on sports in Detroit. This is however not the case with the Detroit Pistons of the N.B.A, who with a mediocre record compared to the Red Wings, manage to sell out there arena which has approximately 2000 more seats than the Red Wings arena. The Red Wings organization has began to offer some incentive for people to come to games like having a lay-away plan for there season ticket holders.They have also started offering cheap $9.00 tickets to bring more incentive to attend a Red Wings game, yet they still have trouble filling the seats in Joe Louis arena.

So have the fans of Detroit stopped coming to games because they know how there team will preform. Maybe the best business plan for the Red Wings is to not win for a couple years, let the team be unpredictable, and maybe you will draw fans back to the arena to watch the best team in the N.H.L play like they know how, or like they don't.

Tiger Woods

Who wouldn't want to tee off with Tiger Woods? Heck he was even talented at the age of 2 as his parents put him through a lot of training when he was young which turned him into what he is today, undisputedly the best golfer of all time.

As of 2 weeks ago, Forbes says Tiger Woods became the first athlete to surpass $1 billion US in career earnings.

Tiger Woods joined the PGA Tour in 1996 and has appeared in many events which contributes to his earnings such as winning the Prize money of tour, endorsement fees for companies such as Gilette and Nike, bonuses for his wins and his golf course design business.

He recently participated in the Presidents Cup Event which consists of teeing of with a partner and battling it off with other duo's. The teams were decided by divding the golfers into duo's based on where they were born nationally such as team asia, team usa, team canada, etc.

Losing Costs money

as we all know the Eskimos are in the middle of a very untimely losing streak. Now making the playoffs is not their only worry. The attendance for an Eskimo home game is usually a little more than 30 000 people; but their last home game brought in a crowd of 17 000. this event has occurred for a number of reasons: their poor effort in recent games, and the cold weather. The huge drop in attendance for the last game has cost the football club over 100 000 dollars. In CFL terms that's almost three players yearly salaries. With only nine home games a year, this just goes to show how important winning is; not only to the fans, but to overall ticket sales.