The Buffalo Bills playing in Toronto on December 3, 2009. Photo by JoshMcConnell. The Brothers Ford got many Torontonians spluttering out their morning coffee today with the proclamation that they had hopes of bringing an NFL franchise to the city. Let us set aside—for a moment—the fact that the NFL has given us every indication [...]

The Buffalo Bills are back—and this time, it’s for real! That’s what Rogers’ resident revisionist historians would have us believe, anyway. The first of the eight-game “Bills Toronto Series,” a tepid preseason affair back in August, has been more-or-less dismissed as an experiment, a mere dry run in anticipation of today’s “actual” game between the [...]

Every Saturday morning Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. Sports page from the Toronto Star on August 6, 1959. Anticipating the arrival of the NFL’s Chicago Cardinals for a pre-season exhibition game against the CFL’s Toronto Argonauts on August 5, 1959, [...]

Toronto’s latest dalliance with the National Football League is underway—and while yesterday’s Buffalo Bills/Pittsburgh Steelers game was a predictably tepid affair, we’re guessing the organizers will be reasonably happy with the way things played out. First, the game. Preseason NFL games are frequently dire, and yesterday’s wasn’t much of an exception. Buffalo rookie Leodis McKelvin [...]

Toronto’s NFL experiment begins this Thursday—and while we still don’t know where it’ll lead, we do know it’s beginning not with a bang but a whimper. Not that the Buffalo (Toronto?) Bills are an awful team; neither are their inaugural Toronto opponents, the Pittsburgh Steelers, who’ve actually won more games than anyone else since the [...]

Stéphane Dion says that Canadians are smart enough to accept a carbon tax, and he seems willing to bet the next election on it. It’s awesome that we have an opposition leader too naïve to recognize that however revenue-neutral and environmentally beneficial his plan is, this may not be the most politically savvy time to [...]

Many of us were looking forward to welcoming the Buffalo Bills to Toronto. The eight games they’ll play here over the next five years could’ve been the perfect complement to our existing football diet of live Argonauts games and televised NFL matches. Now that the details have been announced, more than a few of us [...]

The NFL is coming, sort of, to Toronto—and already, rumours of the CFL’s imminent demise are being greatly exaggerated. News that the Buffalo Bills—an erstwhile powerhouse languishing in competitive irrelevance and financial uncertainty—are planning on playing a couple games a year in Toronto isn’t surprising; if anything, what’s surprising is that it hasn’t happened already. [...]

Taking a page from David Miller’s Big Book of Intergovernmental Panhandling, Dalton McGuinty is complaining that Ontario is going to need a hot cash injection from the Feds if we’re going to get those manufacturing jobs back from Bangladesh. Q: What do you get when you have an NDP mayor, a Liberal Premier, and a [...]

Valentine’s Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don’t let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things we love, you included. Just be glad you’re [...]

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to. In Austin, bands are beginning to confirm for SXSW and the rumor mill is up and running. Good thing, too, because we [...]