The 1987Montreal Alouettes played two preseason games before folding on June 24, 1987, just one day before their scheduled Thursday game against the Toronto Argonauts. The many years of bad ownership and dwindling fan support finally led to the CFL pulling the plug on the franchise and folding them. Since Sam Berger sold the team in 1981, it had shaky ownership and years of poor football performances, only playing .500 ball once (in 1985) and making the playoffs twice (winning only one game in 1985), leading to it playing in a to near-empty Olympic Stadium crowds in its final year. Consequently, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers moved to the East Division to balance out the divisions and played the Argonauts that day instead. The team never played a single game at Olympic Stadium in 1987; both of their preseason games prior to their folding were played on the road (their first preseason game was moved from Olympic Stadium to Canada Games Stadium in Saint John, New Brunswick).
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