It was still a sport largely watched by working-class males, but was suffering a decline in interest, thanks to violence, poor stadiums, and negative tactics.
David O'Leary, their manager, said: "As it stands we've probably got one of the poorest stadiums in the Premiership right now.
He noted that the light would have been poor inside Chicago Stadium, making it tough to use a movie camera.
Often remembered ruefully by Torontonians for its exposure to weather and poor sightlines, the stadium was nevertheless the site of the Argos greatest attendance in the late 1960s and 1970s.
York FC, later known as York Wasps, formed in 1901, were one of the oldest rugby league clubs in the country but the effects of a move to the out of town Huntington Stadium, poor results and falling attendances led to their bankruptcy in 2002.
We're poor: We build stadiums with taxpayer money for wealthy corporations.
Every story about Brazil's hosting of the World Cup mentioned unfinished stadiums, poor infrastructure, rampant crime, and slowing economic growth, all of which threatened to make this most disastrous World Cup ever.
Coach Herman Edwards said the poor field at Giants Stadium neutralized the Jets' speed.
He blamed the clashes on poor organisation in the stadium: "Believe me, if that was a Spartak-CSKA game everything would have been much scarier with such a low level of security as there is in France".
"We've seen teams in Florida before be not as successful," said Orlando-native, New York Red Bulls and sometime U.S. midfielder Dax McCarty, referring to the Tampa Bay Mutiny and Miami Fusion, both contracted in 2001 because of a combination of poor attendance, ownership and stadium situations and a failure to gain any traction in overcrowded sports markets.
