Ticat Record......

[Mikey the Flower Guy]

Press Releases: Ticats Surpass 250,000 Fans For Season
Thursday, October 14, 2004 - 04:19 PM

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats this afternoon announced that they have surpassed 28,800 tickets for tomorrow night’s contest against the Ottawa Renegades. Less than 400 tickets remain for Friday night’s game.

With Friday's attendance, the Tiger-Cats have surpassed the 250,000 attendance mark for the first time in franchise history, representing 96% of capacity for the season.

“Given that the Argos are looking at a 25,000 seat stadium, we are considering proposing a trade of 29,000 seat Ivor Wynne Stadium for 55,000 seat SkyDome and kicker Noel Prefontaine,†joked Tiger-Cats owner Bob Young.

 

[sunny]

Great to see such a turn around in this fabled franchise , its too bad that one or 2 bad seasons is enough to put most CFL teams on the endangered list, look at Calgary , 2 losing seasons and they are in deep trouble. Hopefully the playoff revenue will keep the tabbies in the black for next year. If we win tonight does that clinch a playoff berth?

 

[Luc]

I"d Love to be there

and experience it again. Truthfully Mikey, Football is not one of my sport game i watch on t.v. Seem can't fully understand what happens sometime. But experiencing it live, well that was fun. I don't know if it was the sausage, getting my butt pinched by a cheerleader, the beer I did not have, being almost thrown out of our seat because of you, or it was all of those kisses you gave me, but it was a experience I will not forget and If I was closer I would have love to be there this friday night.
I will try to do it again next year.
Thanks
Luc

 

[sunny]

Good thing I don't have a heart condition , geez , game in cruise control , let them tie it up in the last second , and then come back to win in OT wow , the turn around is almost complete , from 1-17 to a playoff berth , Troy Davis becomes the franchises alltime leading rusher in less than 4 seasons , although the guy he passed played in the years when they only played 10 or 12 games ,and Danny Mac will become only the 6th guy in the history of football to pass for over 50,000 yards , such a list Warren Moon, John Elway, Damon Allen, Dan Marino and Ronnie Lancaster , and although I doubt he'll last long enough to challenge Moon's 70,000 yard record it is still quite an accomplishment . Can this ride continue all the way the the Cup next month? Stay tuned.

 

[Mikey the Flower Guy]

the guys in the secondary.....

can easily cause heart attacks...I can tell you, that in real life, on the field..this was a CLOSE GAME that had no business being as such, but, when Ottawa's QB Kennedy was hurt, and this Danks kid came in, the whole Renegade squad just suddenly changed...morphed into a real good on field team almost instantly, and even though you musta watched, it was a drama that hardly ever rears it's head on the football field.
the 13th man (the fans) could not seem to help our own team...the louder we became, the more determined the Ottawa team got, and believe it or not, there was a sudden respect for an adversarial team, that we thought we should blow out!!
Troy DID IN FACT cross the goal line on a TD that didn't count, and Tim Cheatwood was tossed from the game, in a scrap with Ottawa's #52 who was chop blocking Tim all night long...Tim blew up after a fantastic outing.
I think the three stars were Troy Davis, Marcus Spencer, and Jamie Boreham(our nervous new kicker)

 

[sunny]

I think that Boreham has gotten over his nervousness , clutch kick in the last seconds last week and twice in Ot last night. The only kick with more pressure now may be in the dying seconds of the Cup game. After watching Ottawa 4-5 times this year , wonder how many other teams will be trying to trade for Josh Ranek in the offseason , boy is he a punishing guy to bring down, puts that shoulder and helmet down and just runs over people, glad it ain't me who's standing in front of him. When is Bella coming back , second time this year seen Tabbies have to put a linebacker on the line , Ottawa just kept running at him.

 

[Mikey the Flower Guy]

so now.....

we have a very interesting situation that didn't exist at this time last week....ALL the unthinkables have occurred.....BC won, Montreal LOST, Hamilton WON, Regina WON...a most bizarre set of circumstances have basically thrown playoff positioning into a nasty array of uncertainties and the wild card is Toronto.....so much so, that none of the post season teams now, have any playoff tickets set up!!
There IS a chance that Hamilton could host the "same" playoff game!! whether Hamilton OR Toronto achieves 2nd place in the standings...since Toronto's Skydome is pre-booked for another event....
The "noise out of TO, is that they'll just "move" the game date to the adjacent Monday, BUT, chances ARE, that fans just won't turn out for amonday game in TO...somehow that favours TO??
Montreal has locked up 1st place in the east......and has just lost it's 4th game in a row, and HAS to move it's final game to Olympic Stadium..kinda bizarre!
Amazing season.......some real weird stuff going on.....

 

[sunny]

Montreal has moved their playoff games to the big "OWE" (Almost 30 years later and we still do) to take advantage of the 60,000 ++ seats in that stadium and with no Canadiens to watch they will likely get more than 70,000 for it. They did the same thing last year. Wonder how long the city of Montreal will keep operating a monolithic and empty stadium to get one playoff football game a year? Now that the Expos are gone they have no tenants other than the occasional trade show. Cheaper to knock it down and vow never to build something like it again.

 

[Mikey the Flower Guy]

here are the scenarios......

Sorting out the playoff possibilities

* If Hamilton loses to Toronto on Thursday, the Argos clinch second place and a home playoff game.

* If Hamilton beats the Argos by less than 28 points but loses to Ottawa, Toronto gets second place.

* If Hamilton beats the Argos by less than 28 points and beats Ottawa -- and if Toronto loses to Montreal -- Hamilton gets second place and the home game.

* If Hamilton beats the Argos by more than 28 points but loses to Ottawa, the Ticats get second place only if Toronto loses its final game to Montreal