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Originally Posted by KHOOLE
I'm pretty sure that if Jeff Hunt and his boys do not play their cards right and do not try to attract the "local" fans as well working through the Ottawa changing demographics of the past 20 years, the CFL team will be a bust after 4-5 years and we will be stuck with a stadium that our grandkids will be still be paying for in 2052.
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Well, Ottawa and environs in Ontario have a million people, so a CFL team can survive there with little or no support from the Outaouais side. Of course, it would still be a shame to have a market of 300,000+ right next door and not capitalize on it.
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Originally Posted by KHOOLE
The Gatineau crowd of whatever language love football and always did. Their preference for the Alouettes versus the Argonauts may very much have to do with the fact that the Rough Riders no longer exist and Montreal is closer.
Has any market research been done by OSEG?
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It has more to do with language and identity issues than geographic proximity. The Senators are much closer to Gatineau than the Canadiens and yet the Habs are more popular than the Sens by a two-to-one margin at least, maybe even 3-to-1.
Even when the Rough Riders (and Renegades) were there the Outaouais region was always much more Alouettes territory than Rough Riders territory. The games where the Riders sold the most tickets on the Quebec side by far were those against Montreal, and there was a good chunk of the crowd at Lansdowne cheering for the Alouettes.