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84-635: The Ottawa Redblacks (officially stylized as REDBLACKS ) ( French : Rouge et Noir d'Ottawa ) are a professional Canadian football team based in Ottawa, Ontario . The team plays in the East Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Starting play in 2014, the Redblacks are the third CFL team to play in the city of Ottawa. The Ottawa Rough Riders , formed in 1876, were a founding member of

168-602: A committee to select former Ottawa players to be added to the Wall of Honour with a goal of adding more in future years. In that same announcement, the club revealed that Kaye Vaughan would be the 12th member added to the Wall of Honour. Receivers Running backs Fullbacks Defensive linemen Defensive backs Special teams 6-game injured Head Coaches Offensive Coaches Defensive Coaches Special Teams Coaches Strength and Conditioning → Coaching Staff → More CFL staffs The Redblacks' mascot

252-531: A job with the Tampa Bay Vipers of the XFL and was replaced two weeks later by former Renegades head coach Joe Paopao , who served as the team's running backs coach and offensive playcaller. Their quarterbacking position was in flux for most of the season as Jonathon Jennings , Dominique Davis , and Will Arndt all spent time under centre. Midway through the season, with the offense sputtering, Campbell turned over

336-453: A lengthy bankruptcy process in ownership, the Riders were purchased by Chicago businessman and minor league sports entrepreneur Horn Chen , who did not attend a single Riders game. In the dispersal draft of Las Vegas Posse players, Ottawa management drafted Derrell Robertson , who had died the previous December. Following the 1996 season, years of poor ownership and mismanagement took a toll on

420-522: A road match against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers , scoring touchdowns on their first three possessions in the opening quarter, but ultimately losing 36–28. On July 18, 2014, the Redblacks earned their first regular-season win at their home opener by a score of 18–17 over the Toronto Argonauts . The Redblacks, like most expansion teams, struggled during the whole season, and finished last in both

504-620: A saw blade, a nod to Ottawa's logging heritage. In the Redblacks' first home game, they retired the 10 player numbers that the Rough Riders had retired. For a few years, the CFL did not acknowledge the Redblacks (or for that matter, the Renegades) as the Rough Riders' successor in the same way it considered all three incarnations of the Montreal Alouettes as a single franchise. However, according to

588-505: A shocker when the Riders jumped out to a 20–1 halftime lead over the Eskimos. But a controversial double interference call against Riders receiver Tony Gabriel late in the game proved to be costly, as the Eskimos, led by backup quarterback Tom Wilkinson , came from behind to beat the Riders 26–23 on a game-winning field goal by kicker Dave Cutler , giving the Eskimos their fourth (out of five) consecutive Grey Cup championship. Throughout most of

672-566: A storied 120 years. A CFL franchise in Ottawa was absent for the next five years until 2002, when football returned with new ownership and a new team name, the Ottawa Renegades . Ownership and management controversies soon overtook the new franchise and the Renegades abruptly ceased operations prior to the 2006 CFL season . The league liquidated the Renegades roster in a dispersal draft and placed

756-499: A twelve-hour meeting, the city council approved the plan to redevelop Lansdowne Park by the same 15–9 vote, all but securing a franchise in the nation's capital. With construction on the stadium scheduled to begin in 2011, the earliest the team would have been able to play was 2013 under the original timeline. However, a failed legal challenge and an Ontario Municipal Board hearing on the Lansdowne Park redevelopment project delayed

840-509: Is a lumberjack whose original name, "Big Joe Mufferaw", was revealed by the team on March 28, 2014. The name, which came from online suggestions, was an acknowledgement to the Big Joe Mufferaw folk legend popularized in several works of fiction (most notably by Ottawa native Bernie Bedore) and in songs by Stompin' Tom Connors . After the Redblacks received some criticism for the Mufferaw name,

924-457: Is believed to have resulted from a localized levelling of contact dialects between Québécois and Acadian settlers . There are two main sub-varieties of Canadian French. Joual is an informal variety of French spoken in working-class neighbourhoods in Quebec. Chiac is a blending of Acadian French syntax and vocabulary, with numerous lexical borrowings from English. The term "Canadian French"

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1008-500: Is endangered—both Quebec French and Acadian French are now more widely spoken among Newfoundland Francophones than the distinctive peninsular dialect. Brayon French is spoken in Madawaska County , New Brunswick, and, to a lesser extent, Aroostook County , Maine, and Beauce of Quebec. Although superficially a phonological descendant of Acadian French, analysis reveals it is morphosyntactically identical to Quebec French. It

1092-529: Is similar to the arrangement made by Art Modell and the Cleveland Browns made later in the 1990s. For the 1994 season the team unveiled its final logo design with the team colours changing from black, silver, and red, to dark navy, red, and gold. The colour changes proved to be unpopular as the team dropped dark navy in favour of a return to black for the 1996 season . Despite the ownership changes, neither Ottawa nor Shreveport played well. In 1995, after

1176-844: Is spoken by over 350,000 Acadians in parts of the Maritime Provinces , Newfoundland, the Magdalen Islands , the Lower North Shore and the Gaspé Peninsula . St. Marys Bay French is a variety of Acadian French spoken in Nova Scotia. Métis French is spoken in Manitoba and Western Canada by the Métis , descendants of First Nations mothers and voyageur fathers during the fur trade . Many Métis spoke Cree in addition to French, and over

1260-671: Is spoken in Quebec. Closely related varieties are spoken by Francophone communities in Ontario, Western Canada and the New England region of the United States, differing only from Quebec French primarily by their greater linguistic conservatism . The term Laurentian French has limited applications as a collective label for all these varieties, and Quebec French has also been used for the entire dialect group. The overwhelming majority of francophone Canadians speak this dialect. Acadian French

1344-427: Is the son of former Edmonton Eskimos coaching legend Hugh Campbell , who coached the team to five consecutive Grey Cups from 1978 to 1982. One year before the new Ottawa club hit the field for the 2014 CFL season , it was allowed to draft four NCAA junior redshirts (players who would participate in the 2013 NCAA football season ) as part of the 2013 CFL Draft . The draft took place on May 6, 2013, when Ottawa had

1428-666: Is with the Montreal Alouettes , whom they often play in the Labour Day Classic , and Montreal is part of the divisional rivalry with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Toronto Argonauts . Although separated by distance and division, the Calgary Stampeders have emerged as a main rival of the Redblacks franchise. On July 18, 2014, at halftime of the first home game in franchise history, the Redblacks announced they would be retiring all 10 jersey numbers previously retired by

1512-592: The Office québécois de la langue française distinguishes between different kinds of anglicisms: Academic, colloquial , and pejorative terms are used in Canada to refer to the vernacular . Examples are des "sabirisation" (from sabir , " pidgin "), Franglais , Français québécois , and Canadian French. Ottawa Rough Riders The Ottawa Rough Riders were a Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa , Ontario, founded on September 19, 1876. Formerly one of

1596-457: The 2014 Grey Cup game, but the owners preferred to postpone the game for a few years to give the franchise a better chance to play in the championship game. In any event, after lawsuits and delays, the stadium renovations were not completed until 2014. Hosting the Grey Cup is a condition included in the agreement of franchise ownership. A CA$ 7-million franchise fee was reported to have been paid to

1680-678: The Canadian Intellectual Property Office . On June 8, 2013, the team confirmed it would be known as the Ottawa Redblacks. On the same day, the team also revealed its logo—an italicized version of the block "R" that had appeared on the Rough Riders' helmets from 1975 to 1991 (with artistic ink traps ) surrounded by a red outline inside a black saw blade. The home uniforms were predominantly black, with white numerals and red-and-white trim. The road uniforms were white, with red numerals and red-and-black trim. For record-keeping,

1764-598: The Northwest Territories . Government services are offered in French at select localities in Manitoba , Ontario (through the French Language Services Act ) and, to a lesser extent, elsewhere in the country, depending largely on the proximity to Quebec and/or French Canadian influence on any given region. In New Brunswick, all government services must be available in both official languages. Quebec French

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1848-675: The following season , finishing with an 8–9–1 record. However, the East Division was so weak that season, the Redblacks won their second consecutive division title—and with it, a bye into the East Final. Because of the CFL's crossover playoff format, Ottawa faced the Western Division's Edmonton Eskimos, winning 35–23. In the Grey Cup , the Redblacks won the franchise's first championship—and the first for an Ottawa-based team in 40 years—by defeating

1932-474: The "Eastern Riders" while Saskatchewan was referred to as either the "Western Riders" or "Green Riders". On four occasions, the two teams met in the Grey Cup (1951, 1966, 1969, and 1976); Ottawa won all but the 1966 meeting, which was also Saskatchewan's first Grey Cup in team history. The Riders vs. Riders matchups were often confusing for fans. Errors were occasionally made on the official scoreboard and commentators often got confused. A CFL franchise in Ottawa

2016-513: The 1980s and 1990s, except for two even (.500) records (8–8 in 1983 and 9–9 in 1992), the Riders struggled with losing seasons, poor ownership, mismanagement, and decreased fan support. In 1988, Jo-Anne Polak was named the co-General Manager of the Rough Riders. She became the first woman in CFL history to be appointed to an executive post, and the first female General Manager of any professional sports franchise in North America. Three years later,

2100-498: The 2017 CFL Guide and Record Book , the CFL now recognizes all three Ottawa-based clubs that played in the CFL or its predecessors–the Rough Riders, the Renegades, and the Redblacks–as "a single entity" dating to 1876 for record-keeping purposes, with "two intervals of non-participation (1997–2001 and 2006–2013)." Ottawa Journal sports editor Bill Westwick poked fun at the team rather than criticize during their struggles in

2184-571: The Americas whereas Acadian French, Cajun French, and Newfoundland French are derivatives of non-koiné local dialects in France. The term anglicism ( anglicisme ) is related to the linguistic concepts of loanwords , barbarism , diglossia , and the macaronic mixture of the French and English languages. According to some, French spoken in Canada includes many anglicisms. The " Banque de dépannage linguistique " (Language Troubleshooting Database) by

2268-623: The Argonauts later faced the Calgary Stampeders in another exhibition game in Portland, Oregon in 1992; and several CFL games with at least one Canadian team occurred in the United States during the CFL USA era of the early/mid 1990s.) The 1960s and 1970s were the Rough Riders' glory years. With General Manager Red O'Quinn and Coach Frank Clair at the helm along with players Russ Jackson , Whit Tucker , Ron Stewart , Tom Clements , and Tony Gabriel ,

2352-685: The Big Four game in Hamilton against the Hamilton Tigers on October 15, 1938, when he set the Big Four record with seven interceptions, a record that still stands unofficially compared to the CFL. The Riders next won the Big Four and Eastern title in 1939, but lost to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 8–7 in the Grey Cup game, held in Ottawa. In 1940, the Riders won the Big Four and Eastern titles, defeating Toronto Balmy Beach. The win over Balmy Beach carried

2436-409: The CFL and MLS groups could not come to any agreement on coordinating their plans. Furthermore, municipal officials questioned whether the city could support both CFL and MLS franchises. In April 2009, the staff of the city of Ottawa presented a report to the city council on the merits of the soccer stadium and Lansdowne Park proposals. The city held public hearings based on the report, which questioned

2520-516: The CFL in 1958 and played until 1996. A new Ottawa franchise was formed as the Renegades in 2002 and lasted until the end of the 2005 season. The Redblacks won the 2016 Grey Cup Championship, which ended a 40-year Grey Cup championship drought for the city of Ottawa. Following the 1996 season, years of ownership and management issues resulted in the Ottawa Rough Riders franchise folding after

2604-597: The CFL now recognizes all three Ottawa-based clubs that played in the CFL or the league's predecessors—the Rough Riders (known as the Ottawa Football Club from 1876 to 1898 and the Ottawa Senators from 1926 to 1930), the Renegades and the Redblacks—as "a single entity" dating to 1876, with "two intervals of nonparticipation (1997–2001 & 2006–2013)." Based on their nearby geography the traditional Ottawa rivalry

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2688-544: The CFL's application to register "Ottawa Rough Riders" as a trademark, and the league abandoned the application in 2016. In 2008, a partnership of five Ottawa business leaders acquired the Ottawa CFL franchise rights with the intent of relaunching professional football in Ottawa. The CFL also acquired the Rough Riders intellectual properties from Chen. Because the Saskatchewan Roughriders enforced their trademark on

2772-455: The CFL. Concurrently, Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk had announced plans to bid for a Major League Soccer franchise to play in Ottawa, intending to build a new soccer-specific stadium near the Senators' Scotiabank Place (now Canadian Tire Centre ) in support of that plan. Questions arose about the stadium's suitability for football in place of the aging Frank Clair Stadium. However,

2856-480: The Canadian championship. In those days, Ottawa athletes played in multiple sports and the Riders had athletes famous in other sports, such as Harvey Pulford and Frank McGee . The Riders and Ottawa College were the Canadian champions for the next several years, with the Riders defeating Brockville 17–10 in 1900, and defeating Ottawa College 5–0 in 1902, College being the 1901 Canadian champions. The Riders moved back to

2940-677: The Canadian title, as the west refused the Canadian Rugby Union code. The Big Four went out of existence during the Second World War, but the Riders were able to field a club in the Eastern Rugby Football Union, along with Balmy Beach, Montreal and the Argonauts. The Riders won the 1942 ERFU title over the Argonauts, but again lost to the Blue Bombers in the Canadian final, 18–16 at Varsity Stadium. The ERFU folded and

3024-442: The East Division and the league with a 2–16 record. In their second season, the Redblacks brought in significant talent to improve the offence. The result was a greatly improved team that won eight of its last 10 regular-season games, finishing with a record of 12–6 to finish atop the East Division and clinch a first-round bye. It was the first regular-season division title for an Ottawa-based team since 1978 . On November 22, 2015,

3108-563: The East Division, behind the Toronto Argonauts. The Redblacks struggled with injuries and inconsistent play throughout the course of the season. Their quest for a second consecutive Grey Cup fell short as the team lost to the Saskatchewan Roughriders , which crossed over to play the Redblacks in the East Division semifinal. The Redblacks returned to form in 2018 , winning their third divisional title in four years. After defeating

3192-556: The Eastern semi-final. Ottawa then defeated Winnipeg 24–1 in the championship, held in Ottawa, and defeated Toronto Varsity 10–7 in Toronto in 1926. The team was led by top players such as Eddie Emerson, Joe Tubman, Joe Miller, Jess Ketchum, Jack Pritchard, Harold Starr and Don Young. The Riders went back into a decline after the championships. Again, another Ottawa team, the Ottawa Rangers,

3276-672: The Giants won both times, and NFL-CFL matches were not attempted again until 1959. In the first season of the CFL , the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats made history when they played the first regular season CFL game at Philadelphia 's Municipal Stadium on September 14, 1958 as Hamilton defeated Ottawa , 24–18. The Toronto Argonauts had played the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in Buffalo in an exhibition game in 1951, and

3360-471: The Hamilton Tigers, but lost in the Canadian final in Toronto to Toronto Varsity. The Riders declined and became uncompetitive during the 1910s, attributed to the First World War, and the lure of salaries in professional ice hockey meaning athletes chose hockey over football in Ottawa. During the decline of the Riders, another Ottawa team, Ottawa St. Brigids, was on an ascent. St. Brigids, which played in

3444-456: The Lansdowne Live group was an important contributor to the city of Ottawa. The following Monday, November 16, it was reported that the council had voted 15–9 in favour of plans to redevelop Lansdowne Park to house a CFL team. The ownership group was given until June 2010 to sort out the details of the redevelopment, with construction set to begin in the spring of 2011. On June 28, 2010, after

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3528-470: The Ottawa CFL franchise up for sale, with the intention of eventually returning to the city. On March 25, 2008, Jeff Hunt , the owner of the Ontario Hockey League 's Ottawa 67's , spearheaded a group that was awarded a franchise. The team planned to begin play in 2010, but cracks in the concrete structure in the south stands of Frank Clair Stadium led to the demolition of those stands and delayed

3612-543: The Ottawa City league, and later the Ontario league, was developing top talent. In 1923, St. Brigids and the Riders merged, with St. Brigids manager Jim McCaffery becoming the manager of the Riders. McCaffery was a member of the Riders executive for several decades. The team won the Grey Cup in 1925 and 1926, a time when they were known as the Ottawa Senators . In 1925, Ottawa defeated three-time defending champion Queen's in

3696-555: The Ottawa Rough Riders. The club has stated that they will not retire numbers in the future due to a limitation of number availability among certain positions. All 10 retired numbers are featured on the club's Wall of Honour in the stadium. Additionally, Henry Burris was added to the Wall on September 9, 2017, at halftime in a game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats . On September 10, 2019, the CFL Ottawa Alumni Association Board of Directors announced they had assigned

3780-693: The Quebec Union, winning the 1903 Quebec championship, in a year where there was no playoff for the Canadian title. In 1905, Ottawa won the Quebec title, only to lose to the Toronto Varsity team 11–9 in the Canadian championship. The club absorbed the Ottawa St. Pats when the Riders helped found the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union in 1907. The Riders won the IRFU championship in 1909 over

3864-511: The Redblacks defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 35–28 in the East Final to advance to the 103rd Grey Cup . In doing so, they became the first Ottawa CFL team to reach the Grey Cup since the 1981 Rough Riders . They also became the second-youngest team to reach a Grey Cup final, bettered only by the 1994 Baltimore CFLers . In their first-ever Grey Cup appearance, the Redblacks lost 26–20 to the Edmonton Eskimos . The Redblacks struggled during

3948-404: The Redblacks hired former Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach Paul LaPolice as the second head coach in franchise history. Following a record of 3–15 in 2019 and the team being eliminated from playoff contention in 2021 with a record of 2–9, the Redblacks fired general manager Marcel Desjardins on October 25, 2021. Initially, Hunt hoped to revive the Rough Riders name. Almost as soon as they won

4032-565: The Riders continued in the Ottawa City league until 1945 when the Big Four was restarted. During the Riders' time in the Ottawa City league, another team from Ottawa, the Trojans won the Ontario title, and in 1948 the Trojans were absorbed into the Riders. The Rough Riders were pioneers in international play in the 1950s. In 1950 and 1951 , Ottawa hosted the New York Giants in exhibition games;

4116-445: The Riders were one of the CFL's best teams, winning the Grey Cup in 1968 and 1969 to finish out the decade and then two more under Clair as GM, including their last victory in 1976, where Tony Gabriel made the game-winning touchdown catch in the end zone in a 23–20 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders . The Rough Riders' final appearance in the Grey Cup game was 1981 against the heavily favoured Edmonton Eskimos . The game started out as

4200-523: The Rough Riders franchise that ultimately led to its folding after a storied 120 years. After the Rough Riders folded, the CFL moved its easternmost-West Division team, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, back to the East Division for a second time to take Ottawa's place and to balance out the divisions (they played in the East from 1987 to 1994, and the Bombers stayed in the East Division from 1997 to 2001; it returned there upon

4284-406: The Rough Riders name, Ottawa's new franchise was required to choose a new name. It took the field in 2014 as the Ottawa Redblacks. Despite being denied the use of the Rough Riders nickname, the Redblacks do pay homage to the Rough Riders. The Redblacks' primary logo is a stylized version of the block "R" used by the Rough Riders from 1975 to 1991. The currently-used "R" is set within the outline of

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4368-580: The Rough Riders to the United States . The CFL, obviously, did not take kindly to Glieberman's suggestion, but allowed him to split the Rough Riders into American and Canadian halves. The American half became an expansion franchise known as the Shreveport Pirates under Glieberman's ownership. The Canadian half retained the Rough Riders name, colours and history under the ownership of modern Ottawa Senators co-founder Bruce Firestone . This arrangement

4452-415: The Spanish–American War or logging). For a time, both clubs shared the same colours of red and black until 1948, when the Saskatchewan team became green and white, which remain their colours to this day. The teams had historically belonged to separate leagues ('unions') until the CFL was formed in 1958. When the CFL was formed, they were allowed to keep their long-standing names; Ottawa was frequently known as

4536-470: The Tiger-Cats in the East Final, they advanced to the 106th Grey Cup game , where they were defeated by the Calgary Stampeders, which were making their third consecutive Grey Cup appearance. The 2019 season was one to forget for the Redblacks. The team lost their main offensive stars, Trevor Harris and Greg Ellingson , in free agency as both players signed with the Edmonton Eskimos. The team's offensive coordinator Jaime Elizondo resigned in mid-April to take

4620-414: The cheer and dance teams participate in “gameday cheering/dancing, halftime performances, pregame shows, [and] gameday promotions”. Members are involved in various community events, charity functions and corporate appearances in the Ottawa region. The team offers a junior program for cheerleaders and dancers between the ages of six and 16. The four-week program includes instruction and coaching by members of

4704-400: The cheerleading team executes stunt routines and acrobatics on the field and the sidelines. The dance team is composed of females from a variety of dance disciplines. The team also performs on the field during game stoppages and participates in pregame activities. The program directors are Lisa Aucoin and Kenny Feeley, and the dance team's head coach is Melany Morrison. On game days, members of

4788-471: The date of the renaming, suggests that the name also comes from the war. The team changed its nickname to Ottawa Senators from 1925 to 1930. Ottawa's first Canadian championship came in 1898. The Ottawa Football Club transferred from the Quebec Union to the Ontario League that season. The Riders defeated the Hamilton Tigers 15–8 for the Ontario championship, then defeated Toronto Varsity, the Intercollegiate champions 7–3 and defeated Ottawa College 11–1 to win

4872-438: The final two games of the Big Four schedule to deny Toronto the Big Four championship. On November 19, 1935, Toronto's The Mail and Empire accused the Riders of using an illegal player in those matches. Editor Edwin Allen stated "Roy Berry" was an alias for Bohn Hilliard, a Texas Longhorns footballer who had played semi-professional baseball. In February 1936, Amateur Athletic Union of Canada president W. A. Fry announced

4956-455: The folding of the Renegades from 2006 to 2013). For much of the team's history, it played in the same league as the Saskatchewan Roughriders, confusing many, and also attracting general ridicule to the CFL for being a league with only eight or nine teams, but two of them being named "rough riders" (spelled identically although configured differently; also, the Saskatchewan team's nickname has a well-documented derivation that has nothing to do with

5040-425: The franchise, Hunt and his group made contact with previous Rough Riders owner Horn Chen regarding the name, and they were well aware of Chen's asking price for the Rough Riders logo and wordmarks. The Rough Riders name was still popular among former players and football fans in Ottawa. The Rough Riders played for 120 years, during which time they played for the Grey Cup 15 times, winning nine. However, in July 2010,

5124-423: The heavily favored Calgary Stampeders 39–33 in only the third Grey Cup game in history to go into overtime. The Redblacks went into the 2017 season with high hopes as defending champions. Despite losing Henry Burris to retirement and key contributors such as Kienan LaFrance and Ernest Jackson to free agency, the Redblacks finished the season with another 8–9–1 record, which was good enough for second place in

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5208-412: The last pick in the first four rounds of the draft (9th, 18th, 27th and 36th overall selections). The team selected Nolan MacMillan from Iowa , Connor Williams from Utah State , Kalonji Kashama from Eastern Michigan and Tyler Digby from Robert Morris . The 2013 CFL Expansion Draft was a three-round CFL draft held on December 16, 2013, in which players from existing CFL teams were assigned to

5292-413: The mid-1950s. When coach Chan Caldwell suggested that the team could practice on a train ride to an away game by attaching a railway flatcar filled with dirt, Westwick played along with the joke although the plan never happened. A fellow journalist recalled that and Westwick reported on the idea with "brilliant clarity and memorable hilarity". Newspaper journalist Eddie MacCabe regularly reported on

5376-426: The name Ottawa Rough Riders on Friday, September 9, 1898, and changed its team colours to red and black. Since then, red and black have been Ottawa's traditional sporting colours. Although in later years the name was said to derive from logging (or more specifically, the logdrivers who guided timber down the rivers), the team based its colours on Teddy Roosevelt 's regiment in the Spanish–American War , which, with

5460-417: The necessity of the spending but gave a slight edge to the Lansdowne proposal. Councillors attempted to learn whether the SSE group would support sharing their stadium with a planned CFL franchise, but the SSE group rejected such a possibility. Consequently, on April 22, 2009, the city council chose the Lansdowne proposal over the SSE proposal as its choice for an outdoor stadium. Negotiations were conducted over

5544-475: The new Ottawa team. The structure of the draft was announced on January 19, 2011, which involved one round for selecting import players and two rounds for selecting non-import players. Ottawa selected three players from each of the eight existing teams for a total of 24 players. The team was allowed to select eight import players and 16 non-import players with quarterbacks , kickers and punters eligible within their respective import/non-import categories. Ottawa

5628-428: The next several months, leading to an August 26 presentation to the council so that it could decide the fate of football in Ottawa in the foreseeable future. On November 12 and 13, the council held a public debate to discuss what should be done with the area at Lansdowne Park. Guest speakers included CFL Commissioner Mark Cohon and former Rough Riders Jock Climie and Mark Kosmos , who presented their case as to why

5712-413: The north and south side stands was set to begin in October 2012. On January 30, 2013, Marcel Desjardins was named the first general manager in Redblacks history. Desjardins named former Montreal Alouettes scouting director and New York Jets pro scout Brock Sunderland as his assistant GM in late May 2013. On December 6, 2013, Desjardins hired Rick Campbell as the team's first head coach. Campbell

5796-398: The oldest and longest-lived professional sports teams in North America, the Rough Riders won the Grey Cup championship nine times. Their most dominant era was the 1960s and 1970s, in which they won five Grey Cups. The team's fortunes waned in the 1980s and 1990s, and they ultimately ceased operations following the 1996 season . Five years later, a new CFL team known as the Ottawa Renegades

5880-403: The ownership group announced that while they had acquired the Rough Riders intellectual properties—including their trademarks—from Chen, the Rough Riders name likely would not be returning because of objections from the Saskatchewan Roughriders . On December 6, 2012, the CFL opened six days of voting for the new name on www.nameourteams.com. The team was speculated to be called the Rush, but this

5964-447: The role of offensive play-calling to Paopao, changing his role with the team from running backs coach to quarterbacks coach in the process. After a 2–0 start, the team lost four in a row and capped off the season by losing 11 consecutive games, finishing the year at 3–15, good enough for fourth in the East, and ninth place overall in the CFL. Following the season, Campbell and the Redblacks mutually agreed to part ways. On December 7, 2019,

6048-423: The start of construction until 2013 with completion targeted for the summer of 2015, although there were indications that the stadium could be opened for football as early as 2014. Without a viable stadium, the debut of the team was necessarily pushed back accordingly. On October 10, 2012, the new franchise cleared its final political hurdle with a 21–3 vote by the city council in favour of Lansdowne. Construction on

6132-413: The start of team operations. The league then set a new date of 2013 for the team's debut, but lawsuits forced the delay of reconstruction of the stadium to be pushed back even further. The team and league then announced plans to play at a remodelled Frank Clair Stadium—now called TD Place Stadium —by 2014 if construction remained on schedule. In 2008, the franchise was conditionally awarded the right to host

6216-646: The suspension of nine members of the Ottawa team due to the Roy Berry incident. In 1936, the Riders won the Big Four title defeating the Hamilton Tigers 3–2. The team progressed to the Eastern final against the Sarnia Imperials. The Imperials won the game 26–20 in a frozen battle held at Toronto's Varsity Stadium . Since there was no western challenge that year, the Imperials became Canadian champions. The highlight of Rough Rider Joe Zelikovitz 's football career came in

6300-560: The team announced on March 31 that the mascot would go by the name "Big Joe" (or "Grand Jos" in French). The Ottawa Redblacks Cheer and Dance Team made its debut at the Redblacks' first home game at TD Place Stadium on July 17, 2014. The team is composed of men and women between the ages of 18 and 35, with two spirit teams of 25 cheerleaders and 25 dancers. The coed cheerleading team consists of athletes from various all-star, varsity, performance, and competitive cheerleading backgrounds. During games,

6384-458: The team was purchased by Detroit businessman Bernard Glieberman and his son Lonie Glieberman, who became team president, for a dollar. The team changed its logo from a simple block "R" to a double flaming red and silver "RR", and added silver to their traditional red and black colours. Despite a promising year in 1992 the bottom fell out in 1993, when the Gliebermans began making noise about moving

6468-545: The team. Canadian French In 2011, the total number of native French speakers in Canada was around 7.3 million (22% of the entire population), while another 2 million spoke it as a second language. At the federal level, it has official status alongside English . At the provincial level, French is the sole official language of Quebec as well as one of two official languages of New Brunswick and jointly official (derived from its federal legal status) in Nunavut , Yukon and

6552-551: The years they developed a unique mixed language called Michif by combining Métis French nouns, numerals, articles and adjectives with Cree verbs, demonstratives , postpositions , interrogatives and pronouns. Both the Michif language and the Métis dialect of French are severely endangered . Newfoundland French is spoken by a small population on the Port au Port Peninsula of Newfoundland. It

6636-422: Was absent for the next five years until 2002, when the city regained a CFL team, named the Renegades . Although sentiment arose toward resurrecting the Rough Riders name, Chen expected payment for the rights to it; the new franchise declined the request, and went with a 'fresh' name for the new team. The team also faced financial problems, ceasing play after the 2005 CFL season. The Saskatchewan Roughriders opposed

6720-505: Was developing talent and enjoying success, winning the Quebec title. The Riders absorbed the Rangers in 1933, getting Rangers stars Andy Tommy, Arnie Morrison and "Fat Quinn'. That same year the Riders added more talent, bringing in American imports "Windy" O'Neil and Lorne Johnson. In 1935, the Riders added Roy Berry who was mysterious about his origins. The Riders defeated the Toronto Argonauts in

6804-444: Was formerly used to refer specifically to Quebec French and the closely related varieties of Ontario and Western Canada descended from it. This is presumably because Canada and Acadia were distinct parts of New France , and also of British North America , until 1867. The term is no longer usually deemed to exclude Acadian French. Phylogenetically , Quebec French, Métis French and Brayon French are representatives of koiné French in

6888-483: Was founded, though they suspended operations in 2006. The Ottawa Redblacks , which own the Rough Riders and Renegades intellectual properties, joined the league in 2014. The Ottawa Football Club was organized on Wednesday, September 20, 1876, where they won the first game they played on September 23 against the Aylmer Club at Jacques Cartier Square. The team's colours were cerise , grey, and navy blue. The club adopted

6972-456: Was later debunked. The Rush name was nonetheless included in a list of five potential names (along with Nationals, Voyageurs, Redblacks, and Raftsmen) in a focus group led by the team's owners in January 2013. On May 30, 2013, the website SportsLogos.net reported that the ownership group had filed copyright protection for the nickname "Redblacks" (and its French equivalent, Rouge et Noir ) with

7056-499: Was permitted to select a maximum of two quarterbacks and one kicker/punter, but not to select any two of these three players from the same team. CFL commissioner Mark Cohon was authorized to resolve any dispute related to player eligibility for the Expansion Draft process. The selections were announced live on the CFL's official website on December 16, 2013. On July 3, 2014, the Ottawa Redblacks played their first regular-season game,

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