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

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Toronto won't get a team because the TV ratings would be awful in the states. The NFL doesn't really care about how many people show up for the games, it's all about TV ratings. A foreign team, even in Canada, would kill the TV ratings for every game they were involved in.

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I really doubt this. The other sports manage with teams in canada, and I think people are more inclined to watch an out of marked football team than any other sport.

If a team from canada was good, I think people would be happy to watch them. If they sucked, I don't think they would get lower ratings than the sucky teams do now.

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The ratings for Toronto sports teams are much lower than they would be if Toronto was south of the border. Americans just don't care about Canadian teams no matter what sport they play or how good they are. It's ok in baseball and basketball that don't care about TV ratings to the extent that the NFL does but it really wouldn't fly with the NFL. Given the choice between a team in Buffalo and a team in Toronto the NFL would pick Buffalo easily.