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The most Popular Sports team in Canada is.....
11/27/2009 at 7:49 AM
The Saskatchewan Roughriders. Rider merchandise outsells Oiler and Flames merchandise combined. According to TSN, they are one of the netowrk's biggest draws. Four of the network’s five most watched games this year involved the Riders.
Last Sunday for the West final, the Roughriders and Stampeders, delivered an audience record of two million viewers to TSN, the most to ever watch a CFL playoff game on TV.
“[The Roughriders] are clearly the biggest draw,” TSN president Phil King said this week. “It kind of flies in the face of logic, but they just are.”
The CFL sells more Riders merchandise than the combined total of the seven other teams. The Riders are so big on TV that King says given a choice between having Saskatchewan in the Grey Cup or the Toronto Argonauts, which play in Canada’s largest TV market, he’d take the little team on the prairie.
Why are the Riders soooooo huge?
Edited by StarFM Morning Mess, 2009-11-27 07:59:25