1987 CFL draft. Huge event, when the players attended.
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āthe 87 on the jersey is a nice touch because we donāt know what number the players will pickā
āItāll be interesting to see what they do in the year 2000"ā¦eheheheheehheā
Theyāll do nothing. Because 11 people watched this and it wonāt be televised.
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The cfl definetly needs to promote events better, including the draft. I donāt think it will ever become a big event but they could be doing a lot more with social media and streaming events.
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You remind me of that guy that never has anything nice to say. Wait,ā¦thatās you!
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After reading this, I feel like the Board of Governors should be mandated by law to have you sit in for all meetings, with also ample allotted speaking time, so as to share the most candid feedback they are not hearing or are ignoring, which is in modern American slang is also known as āgiving them the real real.ā
And if you have any speaking time left at all, I also doubt you would hereby yield it back to any of them too.
Those men in suits in there would be wide-eyed and never the same when exiting that room by the time you are through telling them the score.
Make it happen for the good of Canada and beyond, Parliament!
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Hold on there now Cold Weather Todd trying to throw some cold water again!
Somebody wise and prudent must say something when something clearly is not right, and so he did!
Now I do this all the time at work as well, itās my role and thereās not a damn thing I can do about it if I wish to get ahead in life, even though at times it irks one (but not all) of the members of upper management (i.e. āah damnit, I just had a good snack, but there goes Paolo is telling it again, but damnit heās right, but donāt tell him now).
My supervisor yesterday complimented me in fact and directed me to just to keep telling it when something has been really screwed up. I guess he reminds me of that Captain Timbers, but I digress?
The fans need such a voice as this voice MORE in front of the Board of Governors in fact, and so I have begun already to back his campaign.
Now you go take your bucket of ice water and go find somebody else to wash down ya varmint!
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What did I say that was wrong?
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You didnāt say anything wrong. Nor did I!
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I was probably one of the 11. 
This was a fun find - at least TSN had some juice back then. They have served up the same stale draft show for probably the last 15 years. Even the new commish introduced the picks the same way last year. Glitz it up boys.
If Iām not mistaken, didnāt Montreal fold just before that season?
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confirmed. June 24, 1987
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I see they played their two preseason games on the road then ceased operation. Wpg shifted into the eastern conference. Imagine there was some type of dispersal draft
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Remember the whole āCFL Weekā thing where theyād fly veterans in and do promotional shoots, interviews, etc.? Plus there were CFL meetings and fan events in the city where it was held? The CFL positioned it as a standalone week long mini festival.
In my marketing mind, I envision the CFL bringing that concept back. Get a corporate backed name for it. I canāt recall if previous CFL Weeks were sponsored or not. Anyway, bring the league together for a week and do all those promos and events and cap it all of with a live in-person draft. Throw in a touch football all-star game while youāre at it. Take the show on the road and rotate it across the country and build something around it.
Iāve never seen a sports league that sits on its hands so much during its offseason. The draft along with all this other stuff is an easy thing to do in my view. Think of all the content for CFL+ 
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This would be nice. I think a few things need to happen to make more people care about the draft enough to watch though. For the average fan there needs to be more certainty that the guys getting drafted are going to be playing for the teams that draft them and that theyāre going to be there for a while.
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It generally happens. Most guys who are projected as career NFLers arenāt taken to the later rounds. You might have the odd idiot GM, who will waste a pick early.
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Thatās exactly the thing though. In other sports with drafts that people care about thereās an expectation that the first rounders are going to be impact players so itās a big deal to see who your team picks. In the CFL draft the players that have the biggest potential for impact are often NFL UDFAs so we donāt see them get drafted until later rounds and we donāt see them for a few years. Then the guys in the first round arenāt always impact players because theyāre the ones who are just going to come up soon. I think thatās why itās hard to get the average fan to care about it.
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Last year every single first rounder got starts except Ojo and Shay. People watch the NFL draft for the pagentry. Some players fans donāt even know.
I think if you do make it an event People will. The Tiger-Cats draft party last year was a big event.
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I think last year was either an outlier or the start of something changing. I think the latter and am certainly hoping for it which will go a long way to making the average fan care about it.
A couple of things about the draft party, thatās very much not the average fan as itās only a subsection of the SSH. And also Iām not sure how many people are into it to the extent that people are into the NFL draft, but rather I think theyāre into it because itās the unofficial kickoff of the season, it means that training camp is a week or two away. Which I think the CFL does benefit from immensely and should absolutely be trying to capitalize on.
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You tried to throw some cold water on somebody again COLD WEATHER TODD!
āFess up! Youāre not going to fool any of us this time you cagey galoot!
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Then this was you too. I see. The More You Know!
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I wonder if anybody here knows what that damn Le Concorde era was supposed to be about anyway.
The entry in Wiki was interesting to read.
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