March is a clearing house of winter weather. Snow is mostly manageable but bursts of sunlight can melt the stuff and when the temperature drops at night, as it is wont to do, you get ice.



Canadians are among the hardiest people on earth but at this time of year they take tentative, mincing steps…all the way to their car which they use to get to the airport and a plane for Florida.



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Video: Rogers Centre or BMO Field?

MLSE officials are grappling with an intriguing venue issue for Toronto FC's CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal game against the Los Angeles Galaxy. Ideally, the game would be held in front of a packed house at BMO Field and the Reds would head to LA for the second leg of the series with the cacophony of chants and shoes slammed into aluminum stands ringing in their ears.



But there is little that is ideal in Canada come early March.



Two words best describe the conundrum: indoor plumbing. The Rogers Centre has it. BMO Field doesn’t.



I will always stand on tradition, but not on ice.



That’s why my vote goes to the Rogers Centre which in itself isn’t a perfect solution.



Champions League is a new event and while friendlies that featured Celtic, Manchester United and AC Milan have packed the Rogers Centre (once SkyDome), filling a 50,000 seat venue in March won’t be easy. If you move it, will they come?



The synthetic surface at Rogers Centre isn’t ideal for soccer. The BMO pitch, meanwhile, can be heated through a maze of underground piping to a temperature that will melt the snow shoveled from the stands.



Importing a field means trucking up grids of fresh grass from the Sun Belt to be assembled indoors.



There are scores of logistical details. Ticket scanners stutter in cold temperatures. That’s one for Rogers. Pricing tickets to accommodate the rental and the game expenses won’t be easy. Same goes for moving season ticketholders to another stadium for a night. One for BMO.



There are precedents that this sort of thing can work. The Montreal Impact held a Champions League quarterfinal match at the Olympic Stadium against Santos Laguna in February 2009. The game attracted 55,000 and sowed the seeds of next year’s MLS expansion into the city.



My colleague Asif Hossain and I will explore both sides of the venue question. We don’t make the decisions but we will include your voice.



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