TORONTO NFL TALK FLARES UP AGAIN

Memo to Bob McCown's missus: Remind your husband to update his will. You know, just in case.

McCown, The Fan 590's resident lovable bastard, has regularly said a National Football League team will never come to Toronto in his lifetime. Well, NFL commish Roger Goodell said earlier today at a media confab in New York that the league is open to coming to Toronto within a decade.

Maybe, maybe not. Whatever.

There is a certain resignation among the crowd who likes it the way it is, with two gamely struggling CFL franchises in southern Ontario and the Bills doing about the same in Buffalo, albeit on the much grander NFL scale. At the end of the day, if Larry Tanenbaum, Paul Godfrey, Ted Rogers and three-quarters of the NFL' s 32 owners decide there should be a team in Toronto, then, well, Toronto is probably going to get a team, in the worst way (literally).

The self-loathing Canucks -- AKA the "CFL sucks crowd" -- and Toronto trendies who are always waiting for something better to come along would be served ahead of the people who have supported the CFL emotionally and financially for years. That's neither here nor there, though.

Outside of "might is right" and market research, there doesn't seem to be much an emotional argument for bringing a NFL team to Toronto. Just saying, "A city of Toronto's size should have a NFL team," or that the Argos and the CFL suck doesn't cut it, thank you.

Over at globesports.com, it's about 5-to-1, by conservative estimate, against the NFL.

It's hard to see where the grass roots push is coming from for this. If it was left up to the general public in the GTA, the megacity would get a second NHL team before it got a NFL team.