
That time the NFL came to Toronto
Chris Middleton
created: May 18, 2025, 4:06 a.m. | updated: May 20, 2025, 3:47 p.m.
While football fans have the CFL's Toronto Argonauts (who obviously do very well for themselves), the city remains one of the largest sports markets on the continent without a team in the National Football League (NFL).
That is, until the 2008 season, when Toronto was awarded a series of regular-season NFL games.
But that was the American Football League, and the NFL had only done exhibition games since then.
On August 15, 1960, Toronto broke a record for being the first ever city to host an NFL game with two NFL teams outside the U.S. — seeing the New York Giants and Chicago Bears play at Varsity stadium.
There were a number of factors contributing to the Bills Toronto Series' decline.
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