Tag Archives: Rough Riders

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I found out the above from reading an article by Martin Cleary of the Citizen which was largely about another inductee, Anne Merklinger.  Here’s the brief bio provided therein: Foley was named the Canadian Football League’s rookie of the year in 1971 as a Montreal Alouette and the Most Outstanding Canadian in 1973 as a [...]

Earl McRae of the Ottawa Sun makes us aware of the passing of Gene “Choo Choo” Roberts. When I was a young boy, I had a hero, the first I ever had in sports, and though I never ever saw him play, nor met him, when I heard recently that he’d died, I felt a [...]