See a football game in every CFL stadium

I imagine my GF and I will go see her family in Ontario sometime. That will allow me to all but complete this goal. Certainly we would HAVE TO go see the Argonauts play!!! :c)

I’ve been to games in:

BC Place (many)
McMahon Stadium (many)
Commonwealth Stadium
Taylor Field (now Mosaic Stadium)

It does my heart good to see other CFL fans on here!! :c)

Took my Dad to see Argonauts v. Stampeders at Rogers Centre the other day. What a pitiful show!

Memo to the CFL:
Games at Rogers Centre in summer must start with the roof open!
Don’t schedule away games for the Calgary Stampeders during the week of the Calgary Stampede! They just drunken-dial the nearest semi-pro team (in this case Hamilton Tiger-Cats) and invite them to the game… then send their uniforms to the Visitors’ dressing room.

Memo to the Calgary Stampeders: when away games are scheduled during the week of the Calgary Stampede, don’t send your uniforms to the Regina Rams or Saskatoon Hilltoppers or Hamilton Ti-Cats and ask them to show up in your place! Everyone knows how much fun it is in Calgary during Stampede time but really, don’t you think someone might notice that you lot have been spending a lot of time at Cowboys keeping Prince Harry’s seat (and his favourite barmaid) warm for 2 games in a row? It looks like “Weekend at Bernie’s” meets “Bad News Bears” in CFL uniforms.

Memo to Argo coach Mike “Pinball” Clemons: you no longer deserve any respect as you made a mockery of the game. Your team was only up by 27 at the time when you told them to go for it on 3rd and Goal. What’s the matter, afraid your defense was going to fritter away a 27-point (which could have been a 30-point lead if you had chosen to kick a field goal there) lead in the 3rd quarter? Then your team kept up the passing attack which meant it took hours and hours to play 15 minutes of football. Bro, run plays that let the clock run! You were only ahead by 40 points and on the Stamps’ 33 yard line and Darrell Mitchell only needed 33 yards to break the Argos all-time receiving record… but your buttheaded quarterback looked to other receivers to pound in another score. Scandalous! You couldn’t even get your man Mookie the record while your team only had a thousand yards of passing. You have thrown away a lot of respect.

Memo to Argonauts fan: please get a new cheer. I grew up as an Argos fan – that cheer is embarrassing. Worst in the league/city/sport/Canada/North America/world. Even Ti-Cat fan’s cheer rhymes; that’s possible because it has more than one word! Borrow some creativity from the fans of Toronto F.C. if needed since they are creating new songs and cheers (plural, hear that?) as this is the first year for that Major League Soccer club.

Memo to Argo game producer: let the football game be the entertainment and the central theme of the show. Can the canned video pleas of the guy getting the crowd to cheer. Your whole show is lame. You actually need to sell some tickets in the top section (500 level) before you can have your man yell at that section to cheer against the people in the 100 and 200 levels.

Memo to Toronto’s Grey Cup committee: Do you know the meaning of tailgate party? It means party in the parking lot, outside! Yes I realize it’s late November, but this is ‘tropical Toronto’ we’re talking about, not ‘arctic Edmonton,’ ‘wintry Winnipeg’ or ‘snowy Saskatchewan’ as sometimes happens in those places at that time of year but braving the elements/insulating against the cold with fellow fans is community-building.

I know it’s hard to expect fans to lug the hibachi on the subway… just don’t call it a “tailgate party.” Maybe if you’re stuck with the ‘tailgate’ theme, you could show scenes from a real tailgate party on the big screen…

Even better, call the CBC (across the street from the Convention Centre which puts your event within a 3-block radius of their building which is the farthest the CBC goes to cover a story) and have them set up a live via satellite broadcast of real actual tailgate parties direct from the cities of the teams in the Grey Cup game! Now there is a good use of resources. Then the fans in Toronto could be shown a real tailgate party. The CBC could call it, “Football Day in Canada.”

Ah well, it’s only a game.

Attended CFL games at:
Commonwealth Stadium – Edmonton (amazing place to watch a game)
MacMahon Stadium – Calgary
SkyDome (now Rogers Centre) and Exhibition Stadium – Toronto

Need to go to:
Taylor Field – Regina
Canad Inns Stadium – Winnipeg (attended a non-CFL event once)
Ivor Wynne Stadium – Hamilton
Molson Stadium – Montreal
Olympic Stadium – Montreal (have been inside it once; this is tricky because there is only 1 game per year before playoffs)
BC Place Stadium – Vancouver (was on the SkyTrain outside it during the last playoff game but was going somewhere else)

Never made it to Frank Clair Stadium in Ottawa.
Maybe Halifax will get a team if the city wins its 2014 Commonwealth Games bid and a stadium is built. Go Haligonians!

I have been to:

Winnipeg – Winnipeg Bluebombers
Calgary – Calgary Stampeders
Hamilton – Hamilton Tiger-Cats

Left to see:

Vancouver – B.C. Lions
Regina – Saskatchewan Roughriders
Toronto – Toronto Argonauts
Edmonton – Edmonton Eskimos
Ottawa – Ottawa Renegades (if they get their team back)