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Originally Posted by hamiltonguy
Ticats games rarely have attendance that would sell out a 25,000 seat stadium.
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Indeed. The Cats haven't had a packed-to-the-rafters season since 1972-73. Average regular season home game attendance from 1978-2008? Just over 20,000.
I support a proper stadium facility, but if a bigger facility (say, 40,000 capacity) is dependent upon investment from the Ticat camp, my initial thought is that they might be resistant to spending $50 milion on a building that would become instantly identifiable as perpetually half-empty.
Then again, Bob Young has already sunk half that sum into the team without gaining any legacy structure at all. And now his organization is taking business cues from... Tourism Hamilton? I guess anything is possible.