In connection with the hoopla over the potential new Pan Am games stadium near the waterfront, Bob Young announced that he would seek a United Soccer League franchise, one step down from the MSL (Toronto FC). Bob even said that it is possible the team could play in Ivor Wynne before the new stadium was ready.
Seems like a no-brainer. USL teams average 5000 fans per game, which seems doable for Hamilton, plus the Vancouver and Montreal teams play against Toronto FC each year for the Canadian representative to the North American Champions League. A home game against Toronto could sell out, meaning more money for a combined CFL/USL entity. Plus the marketing and ticketing could probably be handled by the existing Ticat infrastructure. It will be interesting to see if Hamilton gets a USL franchise before Ottawa gets a MSL franchise (proposed by Eugene Melnyk, the owner of the Ottawa Senators). My prediction is that Ottawa never gets a MSL franchise. Whether they get a CFL franchise is open to question. It seems that the denizens of Moncton are more keen.
In other news, Corey Mace, the DT draft pick that was part of the Zeke Moreno deal has been released by the Buffalo Bills after loitering around their roster for a couple of seasons. The best case is that he comes to training camp, rather than waiting around to get picked up by another NFL team. Certainly a good nonimport DT would improve the Cats immeasureably. We haven't really had a good one since Mike Philbrick.
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