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Originally Posted by GeoNerd
I'm calling bullsh*t on "Ottawa has fair weather sports fans". The 67's made the playoffs every year since the 2014-15 season and were top of the entire league for the last two seasons. The drop in attendance has nothing to do with being "fair weather" fans, because the weather has been fair the entire time.
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All but four teams make the playoffs in the OHL, so making the playoffs isn't an indicator of being good. 67s
were doing very well in the leadup and years before COVID, but the issue is that a lot of their legacy fans would prefer to drive and park at Lansdowne instead of using alternative means. 67s, like most other sports, were looking at ways of engaging 18-30 year olds to make the games more of an event. They were having
some success until COVID came in and ended things. Most people I know who don't go to games at Lansdowne is because they can't park
their giant, overly large SUVs and minivans on-site.
Would a subway/LRT help Lansdowne? Absolutely. Because it will be enabling more people in their target demographic to get on-site.