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I attended Touchdown Atlantic in Moncton on Aug. 25 with my son and another person to lend our support to the dream of a CFL team coming to Atlantic Canada — not because Toronto or Montreal are “our team.” Imagine our disappointment when we realized this single CFL game in Atlantic Canada was poorly attended.

Our seats were in the east grandstand. On TV, it looked fairly well-filled. But our row of 20 seats had six people in it. The row behind us had three. That's nine seats filled out of 40. The party zone had about 250 people standing there. The south-end zone had maybe 150. The west grandstand, the much larger one, was about 50-55 per cent filled. Not sold out by any stretch. That's the reality. Before any money, let alone tens of millions of dollars, is spent on a stadium in Halifax, we need to know this proposal has some actual support. Touchdown Atlantic did not show that.

Brian Taylor, Bridgetown