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TORONTO — With limited seating left at BMO Field for Friday’s game against the Edmonton Eskimos, the Toronto Argonauts are expecting their biggest crowd of the season.

You’d probably have to stand in line to insert a joke here about how that might not be saying much.

But you can bet that for the biggest market in the Canadian Football League, which routinely announces the lowest crowds, it would mean the world.

“Energy. Positive energy, a lot of energy,” said Argonauts head coach Corey Chamblin. “We make those big plays and to hear the crowd, that’s why we play the game.

“We understand that we’re in the entertainment business and we get paid to perform. Anything else, I don’t care if you’re a singer or whatever it is, you want to perform in front of a big crowd. It would be huge to have.”

The deal Friday is a ticket to the Argonauts game will also act as admission into the grounds at Exhibition Place for the opening of the Canadian National Exhibition.