Comeback kids St. Joseph defeat Holy Cross in city 6A football finals
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St. Joseph Guardians beat the Holy Cross Crusaders 38-34 on Friday.
“We will be the biggest global football league in the world.”
And just like that, CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie lost even more of the confidence of many CFL fans. The quote came near the end of his roughly 30-minute news conference Monday.
Fans heard the quote and shook their head and I was with them.
The big critique was there were enough problems to solve on home soil first. Toronto, B.C. and Montreal needed new owners and the players were screaming for a better partnership. The fight was real in Halifax to convince politicians the CFL was something to bring to their region and worth building a stadium for.
The league was clearly not a healthy enterprise.
The league wasn’t one to take all over the globe to sell. Imagine what all these countries are thinking today, who were told by Randy Ambrosie that the CFL was a place to send their best players.
It’s OK to dream big but on a day you become the only established professional league in North America that had to cancel its season, while asking for government assistance, it’s time to throw away the talking points of this global CFL.