The CFL has flirted with the Maritimes before the most recent 2018 conditional franchise named the Atlantic Schooners. The original incarnation of the Schooners was another conditional franchise that was supposed to start play in 1984. However the franchise was withdrawn after the ownership group...
Montréal has had and on-again, off-again relationship with the CFL. Despite the team first suiting up in 1946, they have folded twice only to be revived again both times. The first iteration of the Als played from 1946 to 1981 and won four Grey Cups....
Ottawa has had an on-and-off-again history with football. Their roots with the sport began in 1876 with the Ottawa Football Club and a color palette of cerise (a reddish pink), grey, and navy blue. in 1898, Ottawa would change their colors to black and red,...
The Toronto Argonauts story begins in 1873, making them the oldest existing pro sports team in North America, the CFL, and the East Division. (The Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs are slightly older, but have changed names and locations.) The Argos started when a group of...
Founded in 1869, the Hamilton Football Club adopted the nickname Tigers. Almost a century later the Tigers would merge with the Hamilton Wildcats, forming the Tiger-Cats. Over the years the team has experimented with its look, wearing bumblebee style striped jerseys in the 1930s with...
Football in Winnipeg first took root in 1879 in the form the Winnipeg Rugby Football Club. By 1930 the team had merged with other clubs in Manitoba and the game was transitioning to become more football than rugby. 1935 was an eventful year, as Winnipeg...
The Saskatchewan franchise dates back to 1910, when it was a rugby club, but in the end, three-down football won the hearts and minds of Canadians. In 1924, the Regina Rugby Club officially adopted the name Roughriders, after Ottawa's club dropped it for Senators. In...
The Calgary Stampeders have a rich uniform history with some surprises. First off, the team actually wore yellow and purplish-blue uniforms for their first two seasons. While winning their first Grey Cup in 1948, the Stamps rocked red uniforms with red and white candy-striped shoulder...
Edmonton's history with professional football stretches back to 1910, but the current incarnation of the team began playing in 1949. They received their first uniforms from the University of Alberta Golden Bears, which was dormant due to a lack of competition. They've kept the green...
Playing their first season in 1954, the BC Lions are Vancouver's and British Columbia's oldest professional sports franchise. During that inaugural season the Lions opted for monochrome orange with black and white numbers and striping, updating their striping in 1956. In 1960, BC switched to...
