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New group looks to bring CFL back to Ottawa

DAVID NAYLOR

From Friday's Globe and Mail

Latest comment posted at 12:26 PM EST 28/09/07

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  1. JawBone Hamilton from Canada writes: Oustanding news!

    This is a solid, local group... finally! Now we can get a new, modern stadium and the Rough Riders back. I can't wait. It has been tough for us football fans.
  2. R. M. from Regina, Canada writes: Ottawa has enough chances already and ownership groups, the city, etc. have proven incapable. I say Halifax is the place to go. Can't believe we don't have a Maritime presence in the CFL.
  3. Joel S. from Canada writes: This is good. Hard to imagine a Canadian Football League without a team in the nation's capital. I don't think you'll ever find a better group than this. Ottawa is the first step, and then a Maritimes team.
  4. Chris B from Ottawa, Canada writes: I think I am as much a CFL fan as the next guy - I watch a game a week, I recently drove down to Montreal to see the Als and Lions play etc. - but I want to hear what "ancillary developments" are being demanded. Lansdowne Park is public land, and I would not like to see it developed for private interest just so we can have a CFL teams.

    If the price of the Roughriders is condos ringing the canal? No thanks.
  5. Apu Nahasapeemapetilon from Vancouver, Canada writes: Excluding stadium issues, why not put teams in Ottawa, Halifax, London and Quebec City?
  6. David Winch from France writes: why not London and Halifax?? metro areas too small to draw the 20,000-25,000 minimums needed to not be on the CFL have-not list ...

    Quebec City by contrast is a two-fer: adds a national dimension to Canadian league and builds rivalry with Montreal, and also goes into a town where 15,000 rfans outinely show up for COLLEGE football, at No.1 Laval Rouge et Or games ...
  7. ashlynn mai from Canada writes: Apu has a good idea, i've wondered if a team in saskatoon would work also
  8. Chris B from Ottawa, Canada writes: Read today's Ottawa Citizen for the full details of the plan, which include:
    - turning over all of Lansdowne Park to the private group, except for the football field
    - townhouses along Holmwood
    - Seven 8-storey condo buildings! 9the Glebe as a whole only has 3 or 4 buildings over 4 storeys, so this would triple the number)
    - a park with a link-up to the canal
    - a new stadium, with luxury boxes etc...

    Now, given that Lansdowne Park is a public amenity that has been in continuous use since the 1880's, one has to ask what the public is getting out of this giveaway, and if the answer is a football team and a small park ...
  9. Howard Young from Canada writes: Chris B. That sounds like a rotten deal to me. If I were an investor I would do this just to get access to the property which will inevitably make more profit from a real estate development standpoint than a CFL football team ever will.
  10. Andrew D from Toronto, Canada writes: If Ottawa is to re-enter the CFL, then Hunt is the man you want on the point. But I'd definitely want to see more of the plan regarding the development of Lansdowne. The fact that three property development groups are behind Hunt doesn't give me a lot of confidence that they'll do it right...just look at the waterfront right here in Toronto to see how property developers view a "mixed residential/public use" space!
  11. Thumb Sucker from Canada writes: And we will call the team "The Lions". I'm pretty sure there is no other team in the CFL with that name.
  12. Cowboy Bob from Calgary, Canada writes: I lived in Ottawa for 20 years, and anything to do with Minto is not in the public best interest. These are the same guys who were told not to cut down an area of 200 year old trees when developing an area south of Ottawa, and when the city complained after Minto cut down half the trees, Minto's lawyers replied that if the city tried to intervene then they would cut down the rest. AND that was one of their nicer moments. They are always been taken to small claims court due to some act of negligence or another. There is a far bigger & Darker force behind Mr. Hunt's bid for a CFL team.
  13. Derek Holtom from Swan River, Canada writes: Chris B
    that's Rough Riders to you - the Roughriders are in Saskatchewan
    Any CFL expansion has to be by 2 teams - nine teams doesn't work
    Quebec City and the Maratimes also have to be considered.
  14. Celine Brown from Canada writes: Ottawa does not need a new stadium to succeed. It just need owners who don't have the Glieberman surname.
    Also, Quebec is the best choice for another franchise.
  15. Canuck 4ever from Cambridge, Canada writes: Oh gawd not again. How many times does this thing have to be resurrected, before people start clueing in that CFL football and Ottawa just don't mix!
  16. David Winch from France writes: is Ottawa really Charlie Brown? and who is holding that football??
  17. tom h from Canada writes: "One, the principle guys are all Ottawa-based" ... yes, I'm sure they are all very ethical businessmen.

    Learn how to spell, Mr. Naylor!
  18. Larry Hill from Canada writes: And I thought I was the only one who is driven crazy by the misuse of principal and principle!!

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