Some articles on the CFL I found interesting.
David Naylor has an article in the Globe about the resuscitation of the Saskatchewan Roughriders. According to the article, the Riders sell more merchandise than all the other CFL teams combined. Maybe the Cats can learn from the Riders. Interestingly the article says the team only makes a $1.8 million profit, but to me that seems artificially low, and kept low, by doing things like renovating an old grocery store into a player workout facility.
Stephen Brunt (who worked out at the Mac gym when I was attending) has an article in the Globe about the Labour Day game. Amusingly, he mentions the Harold Ballard Trophy, for the Ticat Argo season series. If the Cats can sweep the Argos over the next two weeks, the Trophy is ours! Brunt mentions that this game will be the highest revenue game for the Cats, something I talked about in a recent post, although I discussed how much the receipts would potentially be. Still wonder if I am underestimating the Cats take for concessions and merchandising. Those $8.75 beers have to be pretty profitable for the Cats and probably one is sold on average to each fan.
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