Week Zero Football in French Canada

With our national profile rising in football, what if in a future season we could get a nationally televised Week Zero game in Montreal vs. a P5 team from the north east like for example Boston College, or Syracuse, or Rutgers? Its a long way from home but no further than playing a game in California. Just seems symbolically, the Cajuns playing a football game in French Canada on national television will celebrate our French culture on a broader level and attract more attention to the program and university.

Granted Montreal was not the home of the Acadians, its the next province over. Montreal appears to be the only city in French Canada with a large enough football stadium to accommodate. What does it take to make this happen besides a willing TV partner and agreeable P5 school?

Make it happen

Love this idea....give the guys a tour of Oak Island, off of Nova Scotia.

Louisiana football has a unique opportunity to gain an international following.

A bilingual broadcast would be awesome.

French or broken French is spoken on all five continents and somewhere in almost every country.

280 million or so.

I would travel to a football there!

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Originally Posted by Turbine

Louisiana football has a unique opportunity to gain an international following.

A bilingual broadcast would be awesome.

French or broken French is spoken on all five continents and somewhere in almost every country.

280 million or so.

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In Montreal vs Buffalo would be doable.

Clearing customs would be a chore.

2014 would have been the perfect year for this big Cajun home game.

2024 was 250 years since the end of the Great Cajun Expulsion by the British.

2030 will be 275 years since the start of Le Grand Derangement.

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Originally Posted by Duckster

With our national profile rising in football, what if in a future season we could get a nationally televised Week Zero game in Montreal vs. a P5 team from the north east like for example Boston College, or Syracuse, or Rutgers? Its a long way from home but no further than playing a game in California. Just seems symbolically, the Cajuns playing a football game in French Canada on national television will celebrate our French culture on a broader level and attract more attention to the program and university.

Granted Montreal was not the home of the Acadians, its the next province over. Montreal appears to be the only city in French Canada with a large enough football stadium to accommodate. What does it take to make this happen besides a willing TV partner and agreeable P5 school?

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Bump

What an excellent and out of the box idea! After last season, anything is possible.