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In Manitoba, the big game is the Grey Cup, not the Super Bowl, a new poll has found.
An Angus Reid Institute poll released Thursday found most Canadians would rather watch the National Football League’s Super Bowl than the Canadian Football League’s Grey Cup if they could only choose one. That’s not the case in this province and in neighbouring Saskatchewan.
Three in five, or 62 per cent, of the respondents nationally said they’d rather plop down on the couch this Sunday to watch the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL’s championship game. In Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 70 per cent of respondents told pollsters they’d prefer to watch the Grey Cup in November.
Toronto Argonauts beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the 109th Grey Cup held in Regina last year. (Paul Chiasson / The Canadian Press files)
In Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 77 per cent of those surveyed said they prefer the CFL, while 17 per cent prefer the NFL. Nationally, 44 per cent prefer the U.S. league, compared with 36 per cent for the Canadian league. Nineteen per cent said they have no preference or like both leagues equally.
The pollsters found age was a factor nationally, with men ages 18 to 34 more likely to prefer the NFL to the CFL (58 per cent compared with 29 per cent). In that age range, 52 per cent of women across Canada said they prefer the NFL, compared with 32 per cent who prefer the CFL.
Canadian men ages 34 to 54 prefer the NFL to the Canadian league, at 56 per cent compared with 25 per cent, while women in that age group were at 52 per cent for the NFL and 29 per cent for the CFL.
Forty-eight per cent of Canadian men and women ages 55 and older said they prefer the CFL, with 30 per cent of men and 25 per cent of women preferring the NFL.
The institute conducted the survey online from Jan. 3 to Jan. 4, among a representative, randomized sample of 1,515 Canadian adults who are members of the pollsters online forum.
A probability sample of this size would carry a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points 19 times out of 20, the pollster said.
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