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Originally Posted by elly63
Why would Halifax want to limit the scope of their marketing when they would be the only Maritime team? The Atlantic Schooner name has been around almost 50 years and there has been no large groundswell to be called just Halifax.
The BC Lions could be the Vancouver Lions but they aren't and that was a focus for Amar Doman to successfully renew and expand their marketing to the other parts of the province.
Whether it's called Halifax or Atlantic it's going to be the only Maritime based CFL team in our lifetime. As I have said previously people in southern NB have a history of going there early in life (usually for university)
As for a team in NB I didn't know people in SJ had such an affability for Moncton because from my years there they think the best thing about Saint John is leaving it  |
Why would the CFL want to limit the scope of their marketing to the Halifax and Nova Scotia market, when they could tap into the New Brunswick market with a team in Moncton?
The BC Lions will never be analogous to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, but a NB CFL team absolutely could be!
As for the Atlantic Schooners name being around for almost 50 years... it's been almost 50 years of speculation and nothing happening... hardly 50 years of effective branding, if anything, it's been the opposite of effective.
I think Atlantic Schooners is a poor name, and simply foolish of the various ownership groups to like actually believe that Atlantic Canadians outside of Nova Scotia will support a Halifax team team that's dressed up as an "Atlantic Canadian" team.
If they called it them Nova Scotia Schooners, I think they'd get a lot more support from the rest of Nova Scotia outside of Halifax than they would by calling them the Atlantic Schooners.
As for the bolded... You seem to think you're an authority on professional sports, but this is just a laughable assertion.
I don't think we'll see a lone Halifax CFL expansion team in
either of our lifetimes, and I plan to live much longer than you. I think we will either see a two team maritime expansion modelled after the Saskatchewan vs Winnipeg rivalry, or we will see no CFL expansion into the maritimes at all. It's honestly hilarious that you think the Atlantic Schooners is still going to happen, when it's been nothing but speculation and inaction for almost 50 years now.
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Originally Posted by someone123
The stadium situation is likewise not directly analogous. The Moncton stadium with its track is probably not a step along the path to getting the CFL, and Halifax has built other stuff (like the Canada Games Centre around the same time; both cities landed different sporting events and built different infrastructure to suit them).
I'm just talking about the idea that Halifax is behind or somehow incapable of building Moncton-level infrastructure which pops up every so often in these discussions. Moncton built a $17M stadium and Halifax said no to a $150M+ stadium. It's not really comparable.
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I don't think the track should completely discount the possibility of Croix-Bleue Medavie Stadium being used for the CFL, and especially should not discount it being used for the CPL.
I think the CFL has way too high of expectations for stadiums, but if Moncton can get the capacity of their stadium to a permanent 25,000, I really don't see why it's such a stretch for Moncton to get a CFL team with some expansions and upgrades to their existing stadium.
Either way, I think it would be foolish for the CFL to expand to the Maritimes with a single team in Halifax, when the CFL is a league of regional rivalries. Halifax would have no natural rival without a team in Moncton, St. John's, Saint John, or Fredericton.
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