Bob Young Ti-Cat owner

Several years ago a nearly $Billionaire Bob Young rode into Hamilton, on his white horse, to save the 100-year-old football franchise currently known as the Tiger-Cats. Bob, a hometown hero made good in the US computer world with Red Hat.

Since Bob Young rescued the team from near bankruptcy, the team's record is 53 wins and 100 losses. This stat was provided to me by Super Fan Paul Bereza. This year the team is currently on a  5-game losing streak. They signed another unproven coach to a 4-year contract to begin the season.

Bob Young's tenure as owner of the franchise has been a disaster. His nickel and dime ownership has proved to be  a loser on and off the field.

Young was handed a free stadium by the province, for the Pan Am games, he bullied the city into moving the stadium from the preferred West Harbour site, to the current East Hamilton dump. For 80-years Ivor Wynne stadium was stuck in the worst part of Hamilton's east end. They had a chance to build a stadium near the downtown core and the normally meek Young and his enablers in the media used every threat in the book to scuttle best laid plans.  The new stadium will be built over the debris of the current field.

The new stadium will have all of 22,000 seats. There is no reasonable prospect of additional funds to expand the capacity. The stadium will be a low budget 3rd rate facility. A Texas high school team would be ashamed to call it home. Next season the Ti-Cats will be homeless while the new facility is being built. No one has a clue where the Ti-Cats will play, least of all Young. At one point Hamilton's Savior wanted to move the team to Burlington.

In all honesty Hamilton would be better off if Young just walked away. Let the team die like the Ottawa Rough Riders. In a few years if local business interests, or the community, want to revive the team, so be it. I'm convinced that no team is better than a Bob Young owned Ti-Cats. It is not fair to the fans, or the city, to have a pathetic poorly run franchise charge good money for tickets.