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Over the last couple of months, there has been rumblings about the city of Toronto, listening to representatives from Toronto Argonauts about the about possibility of being a tenant at BMO field. Well those rumblings are starting to become a little louder, recently the higher ups at the Red Patch Nation has released a planned protest to be held at MLS All star game coming up this June

Here is the entire article ( couldn’t find a good link to it)

“We”, all the Toronto FC Supporter Groups, believe is time we turn our concerns into actions. The possibility of BMO Field losing its SSS label and being shared with the Argos is a very real possibility and something that we are aware that could become a reality.

So no longer in our minds this is something that we can forget, dismiss and move on, we need to take actions, and not only during one game but actions during the season and offseason. Actions that will ensure we have done all possible to avoid this scenario.

I want to be clear, TFC, BMO Field Staff and more so the Argos are not the enemy, we are protesting the possibilty of our BMO Field will no longer be a SSS in seasons to come. For some this may be an Anti-Argo movement, but we don’t want to look it just as that.

During these protests we encourage everyone to join in and participate, but we also ask you to keep the banners civil, clean and classy. You don’t achieve much with vulgar language, it shows poorly on you and on what we are trying to achieve.

Enough talk and on with the action…

Protest - Start Point

Protest Date: All-Star Game

Protest:

- Everybody wears black. We are asking all TFC Supporters to wear a black tshirt for this game.
- NO Supporter banners, only “anti-argo” or anti-pigskin football banners.

Why the All-Star Game?

Well, no game will have more media exposure than all-star game, not only that something like this would get coverage over the media not just in Canada but USA and also would put some pressure on the City of Toronto, and MLS in general.

Most people are not willing to do anything during a TFC for many reasons that there is no point on illustrating, so an ALL-STAR game is also the best way since TFC is not directly involved. So is not like we are turning our backs on the team.

This is just the start, we will keep everyone posted of other initiatives that will be happening during the season…one protest, one game, is not enough to get our voices heard and solve our issues…so this is the beginning.

We need you in order to make this happen…so we are asking you for your support!!!!

There are a couple of positives of this move:

1. It will expand the stadium to possibly 25000- 30000 capacity
2. With the expansion of the stadium it will drop ticket prizes as well as increase season ticket possibilities. ( got to move up the list personally)

Also there a couple of negatives to the move

1. They will have to put those bloody white lines on the sacred ground ( making us no better than the RSL)
2. It will not be a soccer specific stadium
3. The Argoes will be playing at the stadium

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