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TORONTO — The NFL coming to Toronto has been on the vision board of powerful people in southern Ontario for decades.
Even before the Toronto Blue Jays became the first Canadian franchise of a major U.S. sport to set up shop north of the border back in 1977, there were enthusiasts who had their eyes set on an NFL team.
Barely a decade has passed where one group or another hasn’t floated the idea of Toronto as a logical destination for an NFL team on the move, or for an expansion team to head north.
On multiple occasions it seemed like the NFL team most likely to make its way across the border was the one already closest, with the Buffalo Bills looking at their considerable southern Ontario fanbase as a possible soft-landing place if western New York — one of the league’s smallest markets
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