YakulD$ CFL looks for big score with Touchdown Atlantic
“It’s going to be special, and it’s going to be something that, if you’re there, you’re going to remember for a long time,” the CFL commissioner said in advance of Saturday’s game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Toronto Argonauts (noon, TSN, CKRM 980).
“I’ve had this week marked on my calendar for some time because I really believed that this was going to be transformational for us in the effect that we’ll have on the league and the effect it will have on this community. Hopefully, that’s the beginning of a long-term march towards Canada’s 10th CFL franchise.”
Saturday’s Touchdown Atlantic game is taking place in Wolfville, a community of approximately 4,000 people located 90 kilometres west of Halifax.
The town is the home to Acadia University. The school’s stadium, which normally accommodates 3,000 spectators, has been expanded to 10,000 with temporary seats. Tickets for the event were originally $40 to $80, but prices have increased closer to kickoff.
There’s no way Wolfville could be home to a CFL expansion franchise, but that’s not the main reason for holding the Touchdown Atlantic game there.
“If we had the perfect facility to play the game we would already have a 10th CFL franchise, so you can’t focus on that,” Ambrosie said. “The reason we’re having Touchdown Atlantic games rather than having a CFL franchise host its own games is because they don’t have the perfect facility.
“What you do is you take the best facility that’s available and then you build an event around it. They voted essentially with their pocketbooks to buy tickets so there isn’t anything about that I can be negative about.”
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It took only an hour to sell out Acadia’s Raymond Field when tickets were made available to the public on April 26 for what would otherwise have been an Argonauts home game.
“The exposure that we will get can only be good for Wolfville and for Acadia,” Wolfville mayor Wendy Donovan said. “This is truly a beautiful part of the country. I’ve had the pleasure of working across Canada and living most of my life in Ontario. For me, there is no better place than this province and this part of this province.”
The 2022 edition of Touchdown Atlantic will be the first CFL regular-season game played in Nova Scotia. Halifax was the site of the first Touchdown Atlantic game, a 2005 pre-season contest between the Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Saint Mary’s University’s Huskies Stadium.
Moncton, N.B., has been home to Touchdown Atlantic games in 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2019. The 2020 event, which was to feature the Riders and Argonauts, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Plans for a 2021 Touchdown Atlantic were also scuttled due to the truncated 14-game schedule and some of the COVID-19 protocols from 2020 remaining in place.
This year marks the Riders’ first appearance in Touchdown Atlantic. The Argonauts have played in three previous events (2005, 2010 and 2019).
“It’s one of those games that when they put us on the schedule back in 2020 that I circled because I’m a big lobster guy,” Riders quarterback Cody Fajardo said. “I like lobster and I hear they have some of the best, so I’m excited about the food. I know that (Riders placekicker) Brett Lauther is going to take care of the guys and show us some of the best spots.
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