Thursday, July 26, 2007

Attendance on the rise after two home games



With all CFL teams having now had two home gates, things are looking promising for the 2007 season.

Only the Hamilton Tiger Cats had some serious slippage from this time last year. The Cats second home gate, which came on the heels of an 0 and 2 start, saw 5400 fans less in the Ivor Wynne Stands for the second game. Hamilton attracted 21542 to game number two, down from last year’s crowd of 26944 for the second game of the year.

BC and Calgary saw slight drops in attendance for the second home gate, though nothing of consequential value as the Stamps found 194 less in attendance from last year, while the Lions gate crowd was down 1469 from game number two a year ago.

The Big success of the numbers belonged to the Edmonton Eskimos who attracted, 46704 to game number two an increase of 13000 from last week and up 11699 from their second game gate of last year.

Winnipeg attracted 6000 more from last years gate for game two, while the Argos and Riders each found 2000 new friends from last years second game crowds.

With Hamilton showing some success against the Lions and Calgary totally dominating the Argos in their last home game there should be some more increases to come for home date number three for both of those teams.

By the numbers after two home gates:

Average attendance per team.

Montreal......... 20202
Toronto............29231
Hamilton.......... 24870
Winnipeg...........29533
Saskatchewan.. 26422
Edmonton......... 39871
Calgary............ 28653
BC.................... 30969

CFL AVERAGE: 28719

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