The Montreal Alouettes are channeling their roots for their new “Signature Look” uniform by paying homage to the Royal Canadian Air Force’s 425 Squadron. The 425 Squadron was the first-ever French Canadian unit in the RCAF, formed in 1942 during the second World War. The 425 was nicknamed ‘Alouettes’ after
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Stampeders Unveil New Signature Helmet
The Calgary Stampeders unveiled their new “Signature Look” helmet via their official Twitter account earlier today. It’s their long-used colours of red and black presented in a way that’s anything but traditional, see for yourself: Calgary is expected to unveil their new jersey to go along with this helmet later today…
Early Look at Winnipeg BlueBombers New Uniform
The Winnipeg BlueBombers, slated to be the next CFL team to unveil their “Signature Look” uniform tomorrow, gave us all an early look at their new look by wearing their helmets in practice today. Photo below courtesy TSN’s Darrin Bauming (via Twitter): This photo matches up nicely with a pic snapped at
Ottawa Redblacks Unveil Plaid Uniforms
The Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League unveiled their new “Signature Look” uniform by Reebok this morning via their official Twitter feed, and it included quite the unique feature. Borrowing from a design seen traditionally on the coats of lumberjacks, the Redblacks will wear a helmet with nothing but a red-and-black
Ottawa RedBlacks Unveil Uniforms
The Ottawa RedBlacks, expansion franchise in the Canadian Football League for the upcoming 2014 season, have unveiled their inaugural season uniforms at a fan event held earlier tonight. The uniforms come after a week of teaser images posted on the club’s social media channels. Fans were quite clear — they
Zombie Teams: Identities Brought Back from the Dead
It’s not a lame soap opera twist, it’s not a zombie uprising, but this coming weekend we’ll be re-introduced to something very familiar to all of us which has been dead and buried for over ten years… and no, it’s not “Afroman’s” career. It’s the Charlotte Hornets, ladies and gentlemen!
Move over Super Bowl, CFL standardizes Grey Cup Logo
Joining their bigger, more successful brothers south of the border the Canadian Football League is now standardizing the look of their Grey Cup championship game logo from year-to-year. They’re even using the same colour scheme as the Super Bowl. The Grey Cup previously had a “it’s kinda standardized but it’s
Guelph Storm Wearing Ti-Cats Jerseys on Sunday
While the Hamilton Tiger-Cats have been temporarily relocated to Guelph, Ontario during the construction of their new stadium they’ve also been constructing a Eastern Conference championship season in the Canadian Football League. So, in recognition of what will likely be the only professional sports team from Guelph to ever make
Ti-Cats Change Throwback Uniform Because of Argos Rivalry
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats will kinda honour a bit of their franchise history this Saturday afternoon when they wear the uniforms of the 1943 Hamilton Flying Wildcats against the BC Lions. The Flying Wildcats won the Grey Cup in ’43 before changing their name to the Wildcats and eventually merging with
Ottawa CFL Team Confirms RedBlacks Name, Logo
Last week we posted that the Ottawa CFL franchise had registered Ottawa RedBlacks (and Rouge-et-Noir) as well as a collection of logos with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. Yesterday, the ownership group made it official confirming both the name and logos we posted were, in fact, what they will be
Ottawa CFL Team will be the RedBlacks; Logos Here
The new Ottawa CFL team set to begin play in next year’s 2014 season will be known as the Ottawa RedBlacks according to recent trademark filings made by the ownership group. Registered publicly with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office on May 21, 2013 the filings not only reveal the name the team
What we know about Ottawa CFL Name Finalists
Jeff Hunt, owner of the new Ottawa Canadian Football League franchise has released his list of five finalists for the name of the expansion club for 2014. They are: Ottawa Nationals, Ottawa RedBlacks, Ottawa Voyageurs, Ottawa Rush, Ottawa Raftsmen The list is pretty weak, we must admit. It’s been no