NFL in Toronto is a threat - The Toronto Bills?
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Football League commissioner Mark Cohon believes all signs point to an NFL team being placed in Toronto. It’s the first time the league has taken such a definitive stance on the subject. “All of the tea leaves are indicating that it’s shifting,” Cohon said Friday.
. “You have guys like Ted Rogers and Larry Tanenbaum and Phil Lind, very powerful Canadians who are interested; you have an owner in Ralph Wilson in Buffalo who has said, ‘When I die, my estate will sell the franchise’; you have the Bills interested in marking Toronto as part of their territory, which I believe is indication that, ‘Hey this our territory, we don’t want another NFL team coming here.’
“So I think there’s all these things lining up as an indication that it could happen. So I’m not sticking my head in the sand. That would be the worst thing for the CFL commissioner to do. So I think there’s a real potential.”
Speaking at his first state of the league news conference, Cohon said an NFL team in Toronto would threaten the CFL in Southern Ontario, a key region for the league.
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if i was the commish of the CFL, I would slowly try to get the CFLs style of play to match the NFLs and try to make a merger happen.
A CFL/NFL merger wouldn’t actually be a merger - it would be a corporate acquisition. The leagues simply aren’t on equal footing, money-wise. CFL owners don’t have the resources NFL ones do. But good lord i hope the Bills stay in Buffalo.
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