The annual Labour Day game pitting the Argonauts and the Ticats is a no-go for the second time in three years, but the reigning Grey Cup champions will return to their football roots.
It’s for one game, a pre-season kickoff no less, but Varsity Stadium, site of so many CFL classics, including the infamous Mud Bowl, will play host to three-down pro football for the first time in some 60 years.
Given the seating limitations at Varsity, tickets will be at a premium, but the venue will once again re-ignite the debate as to why the team and the university couldn’t come to terms on a long-term arrangement that clearly would have ridded the Argos of the headache better known as Rogers Centre, which once again did very little in trying to accommodate the Argos.
