jn_12
Senior Member
Who was this prognosticator? I haven't seen/heard anyone make such an uneducated claim. It's not even about glory. It's entirely about money. First of all, why would the US want a joint bid with Canada when they have enough facilities (They have 100 stadiums that seat 50,000+) to host 8 tournaments simultaneously tomorrow if they wanted. The only way Canada is in on a bid is if the incredibly poor CSA pays the US multimillions to enter a partnership to offset all of the American's lost revenue from losing whatever number of games Canada received. From the American perspective, keeping in mind that the 94 World Cup made a profit of $100million I don't have any clue why they would want to share that with another country (And odds are that number would be at least doubled considering Germany in 06 earned 135million euros).
Given that Russia, Qatar, and probably China will host the 3 preceding events spending exorbitant amounts on state of the art facilities, do we really want to showcase Commonwealth Stadium? Sure we could have an NFL stadium by 2030, but that's not a guarantee, plus I can't imagine FIFA or the Americans would be okay with a joint event where only one stadium in Canada is used, unless we're okay with spending to needlessly spend (a) billion(s) to upgrade a bunch of CFL stadiums, which is pretty doubtful.
Canada's best hope is finding more oil.
Given that Russia, Qatar, and probably China will host the 3 preceding events spending exorbitant amounts on state of the art facilities, do we really want to showcase Commonwealth Stadium? Sure we could have an NFL stadium by 2030, but that's not a guarantee, plus I can't imagine FIFA or the Americans would be okay with a joint event where only one stadium in Canada is used, unless we're okay with spending to needlessly spend (a) billion(s) to upgrade a bunch of CFL stadiums, which is pretty doubtful.
Canada's best hope is finding more oil.