Quote:
Originally posted by OFKU0
Ottawa Renegades are the sleeper team this year. Before you know it, they'll have solidified home field advantage for the playoffs.
|
That's what I am hoping for ... and a good start too with a win over the Argos last night. I didn't get to the game (prior appoinment) but am looking forward to the rest of the season.
Go Gades Go
... and for the Ottawa locals:
South Side Sucks!!!
Quote:
Originally posted by Temporary_User
Anyways one thing ive heard is that at one point in time that there was 2 teams with the EXACT same name! I believe there was only 8 teams at the time too!
is this correct?
|
True. Well
technically it was the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The story is that Ottawa was the first to have the name ("Rough Riders" were the men who floated the logs down the Ottawa River), after a while (sorry, don't know dates) Ottawa changed the team name to the Senators. That's when Saskatchewan jumped on the name using Roughriders in the cowboy terms. After a while, the Senators name was disliked and Ottawa changed the team back into the Rough Riders. And that's how 2 teams out of 8 had that same name.
Claim of fame (in my opinion): When the teams were refrenced in The Simpsons episode "When Flanders Failed"