Category Archives: General
“Quebec 6-man football team savours its Sask trip”
From time to time I come across articles about this program. While James Bay is ever-so-slightly outside the National Capital Region, the program remains of interest as it is run by a former Gee-Gee and a couple of its participants are now Ottawa Sooners. Based in a community isolated from most of the country, six-man [...]
Tagged Gee-Gees, Sooners
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Back from my bye-week!
This is being written on Friday, September 3rd, the afternoon before I prepare to return from an internet-less week away from home. I have a boat load of catching up to do. I did not get the NCAFA midget scores from the Friday night before my Saturday, August 28th, departure so by the time I [...]
Tagged Colts, Franco Cite, Gee-Gees, Panthers (Junior)
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Taking a knee, Aug 23rd
When using a slightly different layout for the main site, I used to have an opening segment unimaginatively called “opening kick-off”. Going forward, “Taking a knee” will simply refer to being done with the weekend’s action and commenting on the parts that the local media has not touched upon. I have not come across any [...]
The solution to poor officiating
Ah, the sights and sounds of summer football! The hot, shining sun, the warm wind through the trees, the “clap” of pad-on-pad contact, the bitching about officiating… Come to think of it, that last part is also common in the fall. At every level I attend, in fact. It’s not unique to home fans, of [...]
Halls of Fame
Construction has begun on a page listing Ottawa-based (whether born here, raised here and “accomplished” here) members of three Halls of Fame; the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Football Hall of Fame (and museum) and the Canada Sports Hall of Fame. The goal is to eventually provide biographical information for each member. Now [...]
Tagged Locals
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A scheduling lament
Signs of spring: Flowers blooming, the sound of lawn-mowers, allergies starting to act up and bitching about schedules on CRF. In truth, I expect some conflict in regards to game times. I can’t very well make the case for Ottawa being a very active football market and not anticipate that some games will run simultaneously. [...]
The Ottawa Rideau’s, Rangers and St. “Bridges”
I have finally made some headway into tracking the history of the above clubs. The results can be found here. There are countless sites on which you can find scores and recaps of past Grey Cups, for example. Aside from trying to provide “one stop shopping”, there isn’t much use in creating yet another, aside [...]
Rouge Radio
This press release, obtained from the CIS website, brought back a few memories: Rouge Radio is a weekly podcast that contains information on Canadian Football. This weekly show has information on the Canadian Football League, Canadian Interuniversity Sport and the Canadian Junior Football League. Listen to the broadcast at www.RougeRadio.com The inaugural edition is proving [...]
New Link: CFLDB
I don’t normally make much of adding a link to the blog, but I found this one pretty impressive and think people should give it a look. The Canadian Football League Database refers to itself as “a collection of Canadian Football League information, links, commentary and opinion”. I came across it as a result of [...]
Opening Kick-Off, Jan 24th
This is a pretty dead time for amateur football but a recent discovery, which may be common knowledge to the rest of the world, has enabled me to remain busy making small changes to several parts of the site. I never bothered to look too deeply into the archives section of Google News but it [...]