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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
Bizarre. All six high schools in Moncton have football fields, two of them with artificial surfaces, expensive scoreboards, lighting and bleachers. In addition, there is a dedicated football field at Centennial Park used by the Moncton Minor Football Association, and as a communal football field by several of the high schools (especially for playoffs). It has artificial turf too, as well as a 2,500 seat grandstand. For the provincial football championships, it isn't uncommon to have 4,000 people attending the game.
Is football really that unimportant in Toronto? Just how bad is the disconnect between Toronto and the rest of the country anyway???
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To put it bluntly, football is an old stock Canadian sport. My high school was predominantly East Asian, South Asian. We did have quite few white people, but by that age they were setting their sights on hockey/the OHL if they were athletic. The rest were the nerdy type that had no interest in sports. So there weren't too many kids interested in playing football. The catholic school down the street had a football field and team, but our school used our field for soccer.
Bizarrely, we did muster up a lacrosse team.