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Montreal's next pro sports team


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Montreal's next pro sports team  

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  1. 1. Which pro sports league would you like to see add a team in Montreal?

    • NBA
      29
    • MLB
      32
    • NFL
      9
    • I don't care / I'm not a sports fan
      3
    • I don't want Montreal to have a team in any of those leagues
      0
    • I'm happy the way things are: Habs (NHL), Impact (MLS), Als (CFL)
      2


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Hello all!

Im back with another poll, this time about potential new sports teams in Montreal. 

A little backstory, I've often been in many discussions with my friends about which sports team Montreal should push for next and our discussions always come down to 3 main points supporting a team for each of the big three leagues in North America.

1) Montreal should get an NBA team, look at the Raptors and their recent success, Montreal is an international city with many of its citizens immigrating from or coming to study here from African and Asian countries where basketball is popular (Angola, China, Taiwan, Philippines, Cameroon, Nigeria, Congo) for example. A basketball arena already exists in the Bell Center (1996) and the team could play there. Montreal's NBA basketball team would naturally rival the Raptors and would make for exciting match-ups. Link - https://www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/nba/nba-montreal-1.4857187

2) Montreal should get an MLB team, we used to have the Expos. Already there is talk about the Tampa Bay Rays splitting games between their home arena in Tampa Bay and playing in Montreal. Stephen Bronfman (son of former Expos owner Charles Bronfman) has already expressed interest in owning the Expos should they ever come back to Montreal. Arena talks are underway near the griffintown / peel basin area and would greatly aid Montreal in getting a team back. Link - https://montrealgazette.com/sports/todd-stephen-bronfman-embraces-plan-to-bring-baseball-back-to-montreal

3) Montreal should get an NFL team, the NFL is looking to expand already to places like London or Mexico City. If the NFL realizes that those two cities are too logistically challenging and they wont pursue them, then the NFL could look at a closer to home option in Montreal as realistically it is the only viable city in Canada that could support an NFL team. The NFL can't expand to Toronto because the Buffalo Bills would veto it. They can't expand to Vancouver because the Seattle Seahawks would veto it. Toronto already holds the title as "Canada's NBA team", and maybe the NFL would like to try and have the Montreal NFL team marketed as "Canada's NFL team". Link - https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/06/07/expansion-cities-san-diego-portland-montreal-oklahoma-city-bismarck-anchorage

I am curious to what you guys think is the best argument below. Please feel free to add anything that i may have forgotten. This discussion is purely hypothetical and aims at being a fun place to build on / argue against differentiating points.

Thank you for reading! 

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NFL team all the way! The NFL has only 8 regular season games to sell tickets for, making each game become an event. The NBA and MLB both have too many regular season games and the unfortunate truth is that we montréalais are event driven fans. An NFL team would be supported year in and year out even if they lose, whereas I have my doubts that we would regularly support a bad NBA or MLB team over the long term. The only problem with the NFL would be having an appropriate stadium (NOT the Big O!!) and of course it would probably mean the Als would fold.

At the same time, I would take ANY of those teams in a heartbeat!

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  • 4 weeks later...

Go_habs_go...you make some very good points about Montrealers being "event driven fans". Knowing that, I also think that an NFL franchise would have the best chances of succeeding. However my heart made me vote for the return of MLB to town. I want my Expos back.

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Selon mon opinion non scientifique. 

La NFL est sur le déclin solide. Quand la ligue a de la misère a avoir des quarterbacks de qualité c’est qu’il y a un solide problème de relève. 

Les jeune ne veulent pas jouer ce sport vu qu’il est reconnu dangereux. Les parents ne veulent plus envoyer leur enfants non plus. 

Oui la NFL est le « fun » à regarder ( pour certains), mais à long terme je ne crois pas que cette ligue est sur la pente ascendante. 

Ceci dit: ramenez mes expos et vous pouvez avoir l’équipe de votre choix après ;)

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Il y a 4 heures, Malek a dit :

Selon mon opinion non scientifique. 

La NFL est sur le déclin solide. Quand la ligue a de la misère a avoir des quarterbacks de qualité c’est qu’il y a un solide problème de relève. 

 

1) Pas certain que la NFL soit en déclin surtout en comparaison de la MLB 

2) Pour plusieurs jeunes des quartiers défavorisés, le sport est l'une des seules façons de s'en sortir : accès à gratuit à l'université et avec comme but ultime de jouer dans la NFL dans le cas qui nous intéresse. Alors, sans tomber dans les clichés outranciers, tant qu'il y aura des défavorisés il y aura de la relève. La situation est pareille en France par exemple, sauf que c'est pour le «foot». 

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Une équipe NFL serait juste incroyable. Cependant, ça prendrait un investissement M A S S I F. On aurait pas le choix d'utiliser le stade olympique ou de construire de quoi de neuf. Il y aurait probablement un mouvement de protestation en lien avec la protection du football canadien et la très probable disparition des Alouettes à ce moment. 

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Le 2019-08-13 à 16:18, Fortier a dit :

Je crois que la NBA serait un low hanging fruit ayant déjà l'amphithéâtre (Centre Bell) et un potentiel groupe de gestion très en moyen (Groupe CH).

L'attrait principal du retour des Expos, à mon sens, serait la revitalisation du Bassin Peel et la construction d'un quartier à haute densité autour du futur stade.

Par contre, ma préférence personnelle serait un investissement massif dans la franchise de l'impact pour en faire un club de calibre international Donner plus de sérieux à l'identité visuelle, doubler la capacité du stade, aller chercher des joueurs internationaux, etc.

Oui, oui. Milles fois oui pour l'Impact. 

Pour ce qui est de la NBA, comme tu dis, c'est la venue d'une équipe qui ferait le plus de sens pour Montréal (pour la NBA c'est une autre paire de manche). 

Je crois que les astres sont cependant mieux alignés pour un retour du baseball majeur à Montréal. Ce retour ne m'excite pas outre mesure, si ce n'est que pour la revitalisation du secteur du Bassin Peel comme tu le mentionnes.

Finalement, je n'ai fait que répété exactement ce que tu as dit. 😂

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