NFL team in Toronto.... Could it actually happen?

[Dudd]

The Bills are trying to play a game per year in Toronto starting in the next few years, so if that goes well I don't see why not unless the CFL can somehow block it.

[T-God]

God I hope not. All we'd get on TV across the country is the Bills...

[damaniac]

How are they going to work expansion in with 32 teams? It seems like a pretty good numbers set up right now, adding more teams is just going to make things unbalanced. I realize leagues aren't necessarily against that but I don't see the need to expand at the moment.

[Wires]

Not going to happen without a new stadium. NFL wants 80000 seats but the Skydome (Roger's Centre... whatever) only seats 55000. Apparently they can rig something for an annual game with temporary seating to bring it close to 80 but it won't be good enough for a permanent team.

I live in Toronto and would love to see it but we will all be dead before there is an NFL team here. Godfrey has been obsessed with this for over 20 years and it's no closer to happening now then it was 20 years ago.

I would imagine there are a few U.S. markets that would see a team long before a Canadian city.

[vin17]

I'm content waiting another 25 years for one.

[jerG123]

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God I hope not. All we'd get on TV across the country is the Bills...

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Thanks to Bell Expressview I do get to see the Bills every week, and I live in Saskatchewan (go ahead lol) which is physically closer to the Viks or maybe even Seahawks fans.

[Pudge714]

Skydome could easily add more seats than current football capacity, since the CFL field is so huge.

[mosdef]

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Skydome could easily add more seats than current football capacity, since the CFL field is so huge.

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I think the area required to play NFL football is as large as it is for the CFL because the NFL has higher requirements for the amount of sideline space than the CFL does. So the field area is smaller but the seats can't be moved closer.

[MicroBob]

Maybe on the end-zones or something there is room for more seats.
But on the sidelines I would assume you can't add seats because the front row in the main-stand is already as low as you can realistically go and you don't want to just put seats in front of those that would block that view...and you don't want to put a bunch of chairs at ground level.

[PartyGirlUK]

In theory, if the sport really took off, what would you guys think of a team in London?