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There was a poll in the paper a few months ago about "Canada's favourite" NFL team, and I was surprised that it wasn't the Bills. I think it may have been the Packers or something.

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First there needs to be a team in LA.

That's true. But so far Goddell is very reluctant to do so, in addiction to the current LA politics that doesn't give a damn about football.

Very likely under Goddell's leadership a medium sized city like San Antonio, Portland, and Salt Lake City are more likely going to have a team before LA.

The NFL needs to do exactly two things: the Los Angeles Raiders, and the San Antonio Jaguars. 

The Toronto Bills would be nice except that it would kill the CFL and that wouldn't really be sporting.  So they can stay in Buffalo and try and win the hearts of Ontario from across Niagara Falls, and if they really want to move to SLC or Portland or Virginia Beach someday then I guess that wouldn't be the end of the world.

(The Saints play in a metro area that's just about as small as Buffalo, but they have a much stronger regional draw, for many good reasons.  So they're fine in NO.)

Thank you, yes. Please stay out of Toronto.

Besides, I don't think the NFL would last in Toronto. They never sell out that silly game the Bills hold every year at the Rogers Centre.

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First there needs to be a team in LA.

That's true. But so far Goddell is very reluctant to do so, in addiction to the current LA politics that doesn't give a damn about football.

Very likely under Goddell's leadership a medium sized city like San Antonio, Portland, and Salt Lake City are more likely going to have a team before LA.

The NFL needs to do exactly two things: the Los Angeles Raiders, and the San Antonio Jaguars. 

The Toronto Bills would be nice except that it would kill the CFL and that wouldn't really be sporting.  So they can stay in Buffalo and try and win the hearts of Ontario from across Niagara Falls, and if they really want to move to SLC or Portland or Virginia Beach someday then I guess that wouldn't be the end of the world.

(The Saints play in a metro area that's just about as small as Buffalo, but they have a much stronger regional draw, for many good reasons.  So they're fine in NO.)

Thank you, yes. Please stay out of Toronto.

Besides, I don't think the NFL would last in Toronto. They never sell out that silly game the Bills hold every year at the Rogers Centre.

If the NBA can last in Toronto, the NFL could.

Apples and oranges. There was no major professional basketball league and a culture surrounding it that exists solely in Canada.

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The Argonauts, Alouettes, and BC Lions should defect to the NFL, and as reparation, the NFL should completely finance the CFL, getting it back up t0 10-12 teams and encouring teams to at least somewhat use the CFL like a developmental league (but not a full-fledged minor league).

No.

I do support a 12 team CFL though, but not as a "developmental league"

Put teams in Quebec City, Halifax and London (plus Ottawa which will get a team next season).

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The Argonauts, Alouettes, and BC Lions should defect to the NFL, and as reparation, the NFL should completely finance the CFL, getting it back up t0 10-12 teams and encouring teams to at least somewhat use the CFL like a developmental league (but not a full-fledged minor league).

No.

I do support a 12 team CFL though, but not as a "developmental league"

Put teams in Quebec City, Halifax and London (plus Ottawa which will get a team next season).

How can there be a 9-team league?

Most of the CFL's history consists of having 9 teams. 5 in the West, 4 in the East.

Oh, I should also note that the Edmonton Eskimos usually have the highest attendance in the CFL, so why did you leave them out, Harry? Last I checked they got more people than the lowest NFL team at the time (Arizona I believe).

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Come on Harry. The CFL is the only all-Canadian professional sports league. Please, just give us at least that?

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Come on Harry. The CFL is the only all-Canadian professional sports league. Please, just give us at least that?

It depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.

Wouldn't mind expanding to Detroit, actually. Call them the Detroit-Windsor Ambassadors. Buffalo is an option too if the Bills Fold.