I enjoy football more, but probably baseball because I feel bad for all the Expos fans.
They'd all fail anyway. Even with this province's recent love for football, I can't imagine 40,000 people showing up consistently for an NFL game, which would be the lowest attendance in the league.
Maybe I underestimate the appeal it would have to out-of-towners and many people would make the trek from other provinces and even states like Vermont and New Hampshire, but I doubt it.
And I'd never go to a basketball game, just for the record.
Not a scrub, voted for NBA. I would much rather watch pro basketball than American Football or Baseball AKA more boring than watching grass grow while your granny teaches you how to knit.
I know it's probably the least likely of the three to ever have a team in MTL, but it's the team sport I like best after hockey.
<3 Celtics
lol I didn't mean people who voted for NBA in all seriousness were scrubs. I meant people who do it just to be dicks are scrubs, because I think we all know the majority of Canadians are Hockey, Baseball or Football fans, far less Basketball, and I think NBA would have the least odds at succeeding in Montreal.
Build a new stadium downtown and people will come to see NFL/MLB games, the expos could come back and be a successful franchise if they did decide to go with new ownership/stadium. The Olympic stadium is just crap lol.
I honestly think the only franchise that could succeed there is the habs.
Fine, it wouldn't work because the NBA is a terrible league that most people wouldn't care about. A team would get less than 10,000 fans a game.
An NBA team wouldn't fail here at all! You kidding me? It's all opinion at this point, but I think an NBA team would be sick in Montreal. An NFL team wouldn't work since we have our own Canadian football league... We already tried MLB, and clearly were not able to keep em, although it had a good run.
An NBA team wouldn't fail here at all! You kidding me? It's all opinion at this point, but I think an NBA team would be sick in Montreal. An NFL team wouldn't work since we have our own Canadian football league... We already tried MLB, and clearly were not able to keep em, although it had a good run.
Montreal is definitely not an NBA city. Sure, they'd get good attendance for the first year, but once they start losing I doubt they'd manage over 10,000. I know maybe 4-5 people who would be into an NBA team. I just can't see it having any lasting effect. Either way, I don't care if a team comes to Montreal, but I'm sure it wouldn't work.
Also, pretty sure an NFL team would cause interest in the Alouettes to dwindle, and not the contrary. I don't think an NFL team will come to Montreal, but just throwing in my two cents regarding that.
Also, terrible owners screwed over the Expos and their fans, the city could support a baseball team easily enough. Go check out HarryI's post in the baseball sub-forum.
Not a scrub, voted for NBA. I would much rather watch pro basketball than American Football or Baseball AKA more boring than watching grass grow while your granny teaches you how to knit.
IMO, NBA is more boring than baseball with fouls called half of the time and the fact that you pretty much know who'll win the game before it even starts. I like the Raptors but now that Bosh is gone, I don't see myself watching too many of their games this year.
Montreal is definitely not an NBA city. Sure, they'd get good attendance for the first year, but once they start losing I doubt they'd manage over 10,000. I know maybe 4-5 people who would be into an NBA team. I just can't see it having any lasting effect. Either way, I don't care if a team comes to Montreal, but I'm sure it wouldn't work.
Also, pretty sure an NFL team would cause interest in the Alouettes to dwindle, and not the contrary. I don't think an NFL team will come to Montreal, but just throwing in my two cents regarding that.
Also, terrible owners screwed over the Expos and their fans, the city could support a baseball team easily enough. Go check out HarryI's post in the baseball sub-forum.
The Raptors do fine, because they twin tickets with the Leafs. Do the same and the NBA would survive. Besides, I'm sure Molson would love to have more dates at the Bell Centre.
NFL I guess, but I'm just glad we're entering the MLS.
That should be very interesting,lots of players are coming to North America to play in the MLS,most of them are getting old and they aren't starters anymore in Europe so they join the MLS but I have a feeling we will see some younger players join the league.I will definitely follow the MLS and attend quite a few games
Montreal is definitely not an NBA city. Sure, they'd get good attendance for the first year, but once they start losing I doubt they'd manage over 10,000. I know maybe 4-5 people who would be into an NBA team. I just can't see it having any lasting effect. Either way, I don't care if a team comes to Montreal, but I'm sure it wouldn't work.
Also, pretty sure an NFL team would cause interest in the Alouettes to dwindle, and not the contrary. I don't think an NFL team will come to Montreal, but just throwing in my two cents regarding that.
Also, terrible owners screwed over the Expos and their fans, the city could support a baseball team easily enough. Go check out HarryI's post in the baseball sub-forum.
Montreal had all sorts of problems with any sports team not named the Habs. So I'm pretty sure you can make a valid case for any sports league.
The Als came and went and have only been really popular recently. The Expos lost all fan interest even when they were giving away tickets.
The NBA would be by far the easiest to fit in since we don't need many more facilities if any for it to work out. Only money and paperwork. How popular it can get? Not sure.
The best way to trailblaze to make the NBA popular is to make some CIS unis if not all join the NCAA program. Which would also make our universities capable of keeping the Hockey Quebec products that run away to the big programs south of the border. Same would go for football, since we'd never get any local products on the NFL squad.
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IMO NFL is only 8 home dates a year. That should be easy to fill out.
Problem is, we either need to expand the Big O or build a new stadium. The minimum is what Cleveland has right now (70K + seating). It cost them 300M$ and that was 10 years ago. You'll never get any kind of funding for this over here. And the fact it's an outdoor stadium makes it even more unlikely. Due to weather conditions over here, we'd probably need an indoors stadium, which would put it close to 500M$, if not more.
Montreal had all sorts of problems with any sports team not named the Habs. So I'm pretty sure you can make a valid case for any sports league.
The Als came and went and have only been really popular recently. The Expos lost all fan interest even when they were giving away tickets.
The NBA would be by far the easiest to fit in since we don't need many more facilities if any for it to work out. Only money and paperwork. How popular it can get? Not sure.
The best way to trailblaze to make the NBA popular is to make some CIS unis if not all join the NCAA program. Which would also make our universities capable of keeping the Hockey Quebec products that run away to the big programs south of the border. Same would go for football, since we'd never get any local products on the NFL squad.
Problem is, we either need to expand the Big O or build a new stadium. The minimum is what Cleveland has right now (70K + seating). It cost them 300M$ and that was 10 years ago. You'll never get any kind of funding for this over here. And the fact it's an outdoor stadium makes it even more unlikely. Due to weather conditions over here, we'd probably need an indoors stadium, which would put it close to 500M$, if not more.
That project is doomed from the start.
Hey, the tri funding model that Quebecor is using for the new Quebec Stadium could work.
Hey, the tri funding model that Quebecor is using for the new Quebec Stadium could work.
I'm not sure what are the numbers, but there's no way a 500M$ stadium is being built without at least half (and even then, I doubt it gets done at that split) of it coming from the private sector.
The way it works out in the US is that private corporations are willing to spend a lot in their communities. Over here, it's a dogfight to get any kind of funding for something like an arena in Quebec. It's ridiculous to think it's going to happen.
