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...I'm heading up to Toronto Sept 18-25 and I'd like to see a game that's on that week. Are there any sports bars that show NCAA football? Is it ever aired on the local stations?
We always get Buffalo Bills games on standard cable over here in Toronto, NCAA is not much of a high priority over here, but local sports bars would be broadcasting NFL games for sure. Depends where in Ontario you're going to really.. southwestern ontario have different reception/cable feeds than us over here.
We always get Buffalo Bills games on standard cable over here in Toronto, NCAA is not much of a high priority over here, but local sports bars would be broadcasting NFL games for sure. Depends where in Ontario you're going to really.. southwestern ontario have different reception/cable feeds than us over here.
Well...Toronto...so I shouldn't get my hopes up, I suppose. Thanks!
I've never understood the love affair Americans have with college sports. It seems like March Madness is bigger than the Super Bowl. However in Canada we couldn't care less about NCAA sports, nor do we even really care about our own college sports. We watch hockey, that's about it.
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I've never understood the love affair Americans have with college sports. It seems like March Madness is bigger than the Super Bowl. However in Canada we couldn't care less about NCAA sports, nor do we even really care about our own college sports. We watch hockey, that's about it.
If you really want to see the game though, and pretty much any other sports event that's televised anywhere in the world, check out MyP2P. Thanks to MyP2P I've never missed a hockey game when I'm away from my tv.
I never understood it either until I moved down south during high school and started playing football. Canadians don't grow up playing Football on the level that they do stateside, plus college athletics are not on the same level either.
What you need to do though is take a trip down south and go to an SEC rivalry game and experience it in person and I am almost certain you will fall in love with college sports if you are a sports fan in general.
...I'm heading up to Toronto Sept 18-25 and I'd like to see a game that's on that week. Are there any sports bars that show NCAA football? Is it ever aired on the local stations?
Thanks.
If the game is being carried on one of the main US networks, you'll likely be able to watch it in the Centre of the Universe..........not sure how often the Mountaineers make the networks, though.
Yeah, there is very little interest in high school or college sports. We don't tend to care much about the schools we graduated from and U.S. school sports get even less attention.
You might have to drive to some place in Southwestern or the Niagara region of Ontario to get an American station that might have NCAA Football from say Buffalo or Detroit. They might get some stations in the Kingston area, because of TV stations from Watertown or Syracuse. Niagara Falls, NY is only about an hour or so away, if all else fails.
Toronto gets NBC, ABC and CBS. What we don't tend to get (legally) is ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic or any of that stuff. If the NCAA games ar broadcast on a major network then any sports bar will be able to tune it in. While ESPN owns at least a part of TSN, they do not show identical programming and TSN caters to Canadian interests. We also have Rogers Sportsnet. Perhaps they do carry some NCAA games and I've just never been interested.
Your hotel room in Toronto will have the main over-the-air networks from the U.S. like ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, etc on the TV for sure. But it won't likely have ESPN or any other American specialty sports channels.
As others have said, if it`s not on an over-the-air American network, a sports bar with a satellite (which almost all of them have) might be your best bet.
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