They Grey Cup doesn't unify Southern Ontario. I don't think half the people in the GTA know it exists.
fabulon, I never met anyone in all my life in the Golden Horseshoe who didn't care at least a little bit about the Grey Cup. To not even know about it would take a real effort to avoid the news, especially in the autumn. (Shit, half the people I know here in New York City are up to speed about it, and I don't hang out with expats barely at all.) More to the point, so what if no one you know gives a shit? I give a shit, tommytrump and jc give a shit, and clearly the troops in Afghanistan give a shit. These other people? I never heard of them neither, and if they live in Toronto and have never heard of the Grey Cup, they clearly don't get out to anywhere I'd ever care to meet them. I think this is great. So glad they do stuff like this.
That was hyperbole. Obviously there are several Argos fans in and about Toronto. And if you go to Hamilton, you'll find Ti-Cats everything all over the place. (But they'd kill you for referring to them as part of the GTA, I expect.) But unlike the rest of Canada, the CFL just doesn't seem to draw in and around Toronto. It's the league's dead zone. (Which is why they are extra-worried about the Bills playing here twice a year.) It's strange -- every other CFL city seems to do well. Not Toronto. That was my whole point. The Grey Cup generates some interest if the Argos are in, but otherwise, deadsville. Which is too bad.
