What else are they going to do. Line up for jobs at Walmart?
Tend to agree. With 6.6 Million job losses in the U.S. (as reported today on Bloomberg) there won't be a ton of opportunities for the guys down South.
Players today are better educated with better job opportunities but even so, if you work part time in the U.S. during the CFL off season then there is a pretty good chance that your seasonal gig is in jeopardy.
I think a lot of guys that play in the league have always played for the love of the game. $60K Canadian on an after tax basis is a small amount of money but the guys make the best of it and find apartments to share with team mates.
I don't really know what is going to happen here but a lot of businesses are not going to be around after this is over (it will never be entirely over) and I hope that the CFL is not amongst the list of extinct organizations.
Let's face it, attendance had plummeted in many CFL seasons in recent years and many clubs were just hanging on, long before this disaster struck.
The EE have a stabilization fund that is over $10M but other clubs have no such luxury.
The community owned clubs will have a better shot at survival. On the private side, the Flames own the Stamps and won't want them to go under and Maple Leaf Sports won't want the bad publicity of letting the Argos sink beneath the waves but at some point there is a limit to the losses they will absorb.
Wow, is society fragile or what?? The crisis is only a few months old and already those "old days" of freedom and fun seem like they belong to a distant world from the past. Please tell me that this is just all a bad dream.
