Achi news desk-
The Calgary Stampeders are hoping to turn around the declining numbers this season and it starts with some of their biggest fans – women.
The 200 Club’s goal is to sign up 100 female ticket holders, each purchasing a pair of season tickets, by the regular season home opener on June 7.
“The girls in my family have always been the football fans,” said Toni-Marie Ion-Brown, a long-time ticket holder who helps lead the initiative.
According to the definition of a die-hard fan, Ion-Brown says that she and her family wore football shirts to the funerals of her mother and grandmother.
“If I should pass, I want them to wear mine,” Ion-Brown said.
She also notes that although the campaign is aimed at women, those who buy the season tickets are welcome to bring husbands, sons, brothers and any other men in their lives to Stampeders games.
200 Club ticket holders will be seated near Ion-Brown in Section T, the “sunny side” of McMahon Stadium.
