rdaner
Senior Member
All valid points but I still wonder if the NFL needs Toronto more than Toronto needs the NFL.
Oasis will headline opening night in August 2025
Oh they definitely don't need Toronto.All valid points but I still wonder if the NFL needs Toronto more than Toronto needs the NFL.
Yes, I think some people are making incorrect assumptions from just hearing the name. There’s no chance of the NFL or the Blue Jays (as I heard a guy say on radio this morning) playing at this outdoor music festival site.In no way can this be called a stadium. It is an outdoor concert stage flanked by high-capacity bleachers that can be erected and taken down in mere weeks which is why they say it will be ready for the 2025 concert season.
Although Roger’s has said that the venue won’t be used in the winter I wonder if it would be suitable for outdoor hockey games?
I suspect these events are connected. This does seem like the most natural place in T.O. for an eventual NFL statidum. Especially with increasing talk, and potential plans, for Line 4 coming west.It is interesting, definitely. Michael Grange, who is a good reporter AND works for Rogers, wrote in a recent article that Ed Rogers may pursue the NFL next. There has been seemingly zero momentum on Toronto and the NFL since Tanenbaum/Leiweke/Bon Jovi failed to purchase the Bills (10ish years ago?). But hey, if you have someone willing to buy a team and build a stadium, things can change.
Most NFL,owners do not like to build their own stadiums, they would much rather have the taxpayer undertake that task. And I would imagine that their would be pressure to create a new NFL franchise so that the existing owners share on the franchise fee - 5 billion would be a nice year end bonus to share around.I think they could make a go of it, potentially, though it begs the question of why no other existing NFL team owner is skipping the $5B expansion fee and just building a stadium to move a team to Toronto
Oasis will headline opening night in August 2025
Maybe not opening night.Oasis will headline opening night in August 2025
... will host its first concerts in June 2025, according to Live Nation executive Erik Hoffman.
As mentioned above, I think some are being misled by the not-entirely-accurate "Stadium" name it's being given. It's an outdoor music festival site with a temporary outdoor stage and temporary (possibly scaffolding-type) grandstands. For a comparison, the Toronto IndyCar track (including grandstands, trackside suites, all those concrete barriers and fences) has been set up and taken down each year for most of the last 35+ years over the course of about maybe two months. Not as many in recent times, but for its first 10 or 15 years the attendance was allegedly 60,000 or more on race day.I know the thing is temporary, but still: Godspeed to the folks in charge of getting a 50,000-person venue up and running (and permitted) in 11 months.
https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2024/0...-stadium-downsview-setting-stage-future.57005… expected to have seats for 30,000 fans, with the rest standing.
… a removable standard stage at the end, which will allow big-name artists to bring in their own customized stages. (It will neither have the facilities nor the pitch to accommodate a sports team, Hoffman said.)
Just a guess on my part, but I could see them reconfiguring this temporary set-up to be half of the capacity or less by having the scaffolding stands be smaller and closer to the stage, if and when Budweiser Stage is being rebuilt, so it would be more suitable for a higher number of shows.It is envisioned as a horseshoe-like structure with seating that can be reconfigured to suit the varying demands of large-scale concerts and events
Again as mentioned above, I'm mystified as to why an outdoor music festival site has prompted any talk about football or an NFL stadium (which this is definitely not). And no one is building an NFL stadium on the faint hope that it might somehow attract a team. Even in the unlikely, and most would say objectionable, event that some level of government paid for it as in Nevada, it would have to involve an NFL team owner already agreeing to move into it before construction would start.... As much as I enjoy the CFL and the Argos, I think the NFL comes one day, ,shortly after the new NFL compatible stadium is announced...