We shouldn't get to worked up about this - or should we ?
The Toronto Argonauts "football" team of the Canadian "Football" League wants to get in on the action at BMO Field.
I don't see this happening in the end. Perhaps Argo owner, Howard Sokolowski, is simply using BMO as a bargaining tool of some sort.
Here's what he says:
"The mayor has been very helpful...He wants to please soccer and football fans together. There's no reason they can't coexist. This isn't the Hatfields and the McCoys, but I'm not sure [MLSE president] Richard Peddie feels that way."
Of course Peddie doesn't. Nor do those of us who live for the beauty of our beautiful game. For me it would be utterly unacceptable to see "fooball" lines on BMO Field and to have the configuration of the pitch altered - except for the purpose of housing more "soccer" fans.
My prediction? If the Argos are actually serious about their attempt to ruin BMO Field - they actually won't survive long enough to see the changes happen and TFC will be such a strong pressence on the Toronto sports scene that they will simply buy-out the stadium partners (municipal-provincial-federal) and expand for the sake of "soccer" alone.
In what is looking more and more like a soccer-future in Canada - "Canadian football" - poses no serious threat.
It is to be laughed at. A joke.
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This debate won't be the equivalent of the Hatfields and the McCoys because that implies that both sports franchises - like the two families - are equal rivals. And that simply isn't the case.
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