Category Archives: Professional

Guests at the Rider QB Clubs

Gord Bunke, Director of Marketing and Communications for the Ottawa Rough Riders from 1982-87, was kind enough to provide me with the list of expected guests at the coming Rough Rider quarterblack clubs at the Ex.  I believe Mr Bunke will be the MC at both events. Tues. 7pm Aug. 24 Coliseum Building, Lansdowne Park [...]

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“Rider QB Club makes comeback”

I find it hard to believe that Earl McRae is serious about this, because it has totally come out of nowhere. Fifteen Grey Cup rings. Fifteen Grey Cup rings among them, mostly with Ottawa, and if you were a die-hard fan of the Rough Riders, and still are of the CFL, the place for you [...]

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“New team likely won’t be called Rough Riders”

The article included here (and copied below) is rather brief, however the six minute interview is certainly worth a listen. Ottawa’s new CFL football team likely won’t be called the Ottawa Rough Riders, CTV Ottawa has learned. The Ottawa Rough Riders were born more than a century ago. But when the team folded back in [...]

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The order of things

This article was in the Citizen a few days ago, but because most of the headlines in regards to the positive vote were similar, it appears I overlooked it.  It is essentially confirmation of things we already suspected but are now able to discuss with a bit more confidence. By the way, I have seen [...]

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“CFL will return to Ottawa”

Following last night’s successful council vote to enter into an agreement with OSEG, here is Don Brennan with some basics as to what the what the plans are from here on in in terms of building the franchise. Still a full three years from the first coin toss, Ottawa is returning to the CFL because [...]

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Nice idea, Earl!

No doubt the Glebe Community Association would complain about the reflection of the sun on these, but I like the idea.  Read on below: Give me your suggestions. Mine are: Tony Gabriel, Russ Jackson, Brian Kilrea, and Frank Nighbor. If the Boston Bruins can do it for Bobby Orr, we should be doing it for [...]

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Doucet gets pwned!!!1 ROFL!!!1

The Lansdowne Live saga has had little play here of late because posting every bit of nonsense to come out of the Glebe Community Association, councillor Clive Doucet and/or Carleton prof Ian Lee would be a full-time job in and of itself. Sometimes I can’t help myself though, such as when some GCA wingnut expressed [...]

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2003 Renegades draft revisited

Duane Ford breaks down the 2003 Renegades draft as part of a detailed column about the event.  To no one’s shock, it goes under the category of “worst draft by one team”. The Ottawa Renegades’ 2003 Draft class included some very good football players. The only problem was that very few of them actually wanted [...]

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OSEG is trying to kill you!

Thankfully, The Glebe Community Association has your best interest at heart. EMC News – A community dialogue on the Glebe-specific results of the recently-released Ottawa Neighbourhood Study will be held on Thursday, April 29 at 7:15 p.m. at the Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Avenue. The Centretown Community Health Centre (CCHC) “would like to a [...]

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1968 Rough Riders roster

With great nerdy giddiness, I recently acquired some Rough Riders documentation from the late 60′s / early 70′s. Media guides from 1970 and 1976 (*gasp*) are going to be on the way to CRFHQ soon, but during the week I received a program from a game from 1968.  It was actually a road game in [...]

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