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SPORTS

Grey Cup hoopla hides hard reality from CFL

BETWEEN NOW and Sunday's 3:30 (Pacific time) kick-
off of the SOth Grey Cup game from Toronto’s SkyDome,
there will be an increase in loudness and intensity from
those Canadian Football League purists dead-set against

the CFL expanding into U.S. markets.

Peering fram behind the
blinkers they’ve been wearing for
decades. the message will go
something like this: ‘Flutie vs.
Dunigan, the top two quarter-
backs in the land; the best from
the West vs. the best from the
East...the way it should be! This
great Canadian tradition lives
on!"

Great, indeed, if you don’t
happen to own one of the existing
eight CFL franchises that loses
gigantic sacks of money year after
year after year.

CEC Television, celebrating 40
years of Grey Cup coverage dating
back to Nov. 29, 1952, will most
assuredly make Sunday’s pres-
entation appear as though the
CFL doesn’t have a worry in the
wortd.

The SkyDome will be filled with
primarily corporate citizens
capable of writing off their $100
tickets and booze hills from their
luxury suites. Anew “WC TV, in
the ensuing weeks, w.i:'n be
proudly announcing re-
cord-breaking viewership figures.

But what will be lost in all of
this hoopla is the reality that
hangs over the CFL: there isn't a
franchise in the league that stands
financially independent, and the

Greg
Douglas

new breed of owners are convine-
ed expansion remains the only an-
swer.

Where does it say that the
Bruce McNalls (Toronto), Lonie
Gleidermans (Ottawa), Bill Com-
ries (B.C.) and Larry Ryckman
(Calgary) should be swailowing
multi-million-doltiar setbacks cach
year to keep the purists pleased by
maintaining this ‘‘great Canadian
tradition.”’

It’s poppycock.

NORTH SHORE REPLAY

40 YEARS AGO

Posting their third consecutive
shutout victory with a 15-0 win
over Burnaby, the North Shore
Lions finished the 1952 regular
season of the Juvenile Canadian
football league in second place
overall. .

30 YEARS AGO

Hillside Mountaineers, marking
their first appearance at the North
. Shore school Inter-City annual
junior basketball jamboree,
soundly defeated St. Thomas
Aquinas 103-67 in the final of the
10-ream tournament.

25 YEARS AGO

Hamilion Hi-Liters won both the
juvenile and bantam North Shore
high school girls’ grass hockey ti-
tles, capping undefeated seasons
for both squads. Both ieams,

coached by D. Irwin, were playing
their first season of grass hockey.
20 YEARS AGO

The North West Eagles boxing
club dominated the 1972 Bronze
Glove boxing iournament. The
Eagles — coached by FEllio, Met
and Leo Tus won the team
championstiip, giving them eight
provincial team tides in the last
nine years.

10 YEAKS AGO

Sentinel led a North Shore sweep
at the Vancouver & District senior
tennis championships. Behind the
Spartans championship finish were
second piace Hillside and third
place Handsworth. The junior
Spartans gave Sentine! overall
bragging sights when they won the
junior team title.

Like every olher professional
sports league in eNistence, the
mandate is to make money. Or at
leust enjoy the ego being fed by
breaking even.

Some stoop on the radio Mon-
day morning questioned the fact
that Ryckman was allowed to
patrol the sidelines during the
Stampeders’ western final win
over Edmonton.

Imagine that?

Ryckman owns the team. He
pays the salaries, which means he
pays the debts. That entitles him
to bungee jump off the roof of

Discontinued models, freight
damaged models, floor models

Sale prices at wholesale
or mfg. cost. All sizes of

the stadium if it would make him
happy.

Its OK for Cal Murphy, bless
him, to continue his crusade to
block the CFL’s proposed move-
ment into the U.S,

But the fact of the mauer is,
the Blue Bombers are one of four
remaining community-owned
franchises, and it isn’t his money
that’s on the line.

Saskatchewan, Edmonton and
Hamilton are the other three...and
each of them operates on a shoe-
string budget. Each one of them
scrambles every year to survive.

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Expansion will create new inter-
vst and the potential of added
television income that is so vital to
the CFL.

Three ‘tno’ votes on the ex-
pansion issue will scuttle the mis-
sion currently being promoted by
Seague commissioner Larry Smith.
Winnipeg has already declared
itself.

Should the Bombers be suc-
cessful in their lobbying efforts to
acquire two more negative votes,
the CFL will continue to suck
along as a losing proposition.

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