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I doubt that man. Toronto goes ****ing nuts for the Toronto Raptors. Basketball IN Canada. They would be a great place for an NFL team. Toronto might have the most passionate fans in North America, they are a terribly annoying fan base as well. One of my least favorite.
I'm sure lots of cities have tons of bandwagon jumpers, but the ACC is much different when the team isn't doing well. After last year's unexpected play-off trip, suddenly there are a ton of Raptors fans who weren't around the previous few years.
But even last season, the Raptors sold around 92% of their tickets. In volume, that's good for 10th place, but in terms of percentage, 18th. That's comparable to Utah's attendance. Salt Lake City has less than 10% of the population of Toronto; in fact the entire state of Utah is comparable (2.9M vs. 2.8M).
The Jays haven't been in the top 5 of the AL attendance in over 15 years. Again, they've been bad, I get it. But this season had some promise at the start and Toronto ended up 17th in average attendance, 22nd in percentage, comparable to San Diego (less than half the population) and Atlanta (about 1/7 the population).
The Bills averaged over 66K fans a game last season, while the game in Toronto brought it down because it drew only 39K. I'm sure the price of the tickets made it somewhat closer, but the Toronto game peaked at 52K fans at the start, and slowly dwindled.
It's a huge city, the 4th-largest in North America now. It's a great city to live in, and I'm glad we moved here. But it's not a great sports city, which is probably a good thing because so many of their teams suck.