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CFL- Redblacks
Channel surfing and just stumbled on the pre-season Riders-Redblacks game on TSN2.
Early lead for the Redblacks.
Anyone else watching this?
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What the heck is a Redback?
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06-14-2014, 07:17 PM
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Actually, the team's name is the Ottawa 'RedBlacks', but I'm sure you're forgiven 
But I too have to ask ... were in tarnation did they get that name from, and what the heck does it mean 
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Actually, the team's name is the Ottawa 'RedBlacks', but I'm sure you're forgiven
But I too have to ask ... were in tarnation did they get that name from, and what the heck does it mean
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Right, RedBlacks.
Where in tarnation did they get that name from 
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06-14-2014, 07:30 PM
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That's so they can keep the "R" on their helmets from 20 yrs back, haa.
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06-14-2014, 07:45 PM
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What the heck is a Redback?
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Actually, the team's name is the Ottawa ' RedBlacks', but I'm sure you're forgiven
But I too have to ask ... were in tarnation did they get that name from, and what the heck does it mean
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Right, RedBlacks.
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OK, so now we're even 
But we still don't know about that 'RedBlacks' name! Here's hoping it has nothing to do with Native Canadians and African Canadians 
Mac 
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Owner's hoping to stay in the black but alway's in the red ???
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06-14-2014, 08:02 PM
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OK, so now we're even
But we still don't know about that 'RedBlacks' name! Here's hoping it has nothing to do with Native Canadians and African Canadians
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The explanation of the name and logo is beyond my grasp.
A saw blade to represent Ottawa as a Lumber town- 
And red and black as tribute to the men and women of Ottawa who serve our country. Cameron Highlanders-RCMP etc
Also the R supposed to pay homage to the old Rough Riders team.
And on and on and on. 
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It's one of the stupidest names I've ever heard.
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06-14-2014, 09:12 PM
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It's one of the stupidest names I've ever heard.
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Don't worry with Ottawa history of cfl teams thy won't last but a season or two! They should have put the team in Maritimes!
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06-14-2014, 09:21 PM
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Don't worry with Ottawa history of cfl teams thy won't last but a season or two! They should have put the team in Maritimes!
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Channel surfing and just stumbled on the pre-season Riders-Redblacks game on TSN2.
Early lead for the Redblacks.
Anyone else watching this?
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It was nice to see.
Tony Gabriel seems like a real long time ago
Would be nice if he does the first coin toss.
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There definitely was a few good plays in that game. Hopefully this type of play doesn't peter out during the season. I like me some good football!
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Right, RedBlacks.
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Any name that started with R gave us the possibility of preserving that iconic R on the helmet. When I called Russ Jackson, Tony Gabriel as well, to share the name, I wanted them to buy in ... I told them, 'It keeps that R on the helmet.' That immediately struck a chord with those guys and I started to feel like we were onto something.
We still had this wall of names. We started to pick them off one at a time.
We put out five names for focus groups. It wasn't five names just for the sake of it. Every one of those names we were seriously considering. Let's just say going into it, if we had thought one of the choices was the fifth-most popular and the focus groups were overwhelming to that name, we would have had to take that seriously.
We started to narrow in on RedBlacks. Red stands for desire, black stands for power. One of the things I did not know, in the mid- to late-1870s, when the Rough Riders started, one of the thoughts is they were named after the Roosevelt Rough Riders. They took the red and black colours from this regiment. I believe those colours influenced the colours of every Ottawa sports team since. I thought, what a tribute to Ottawa sports history -- even if you think about the guards on the Hill with their red and black colouring. It's just so synonymous with Ottawa history.
There was a realization within our partnership group that the name only worked if we could come up with a logo that was appropriate.
We had the name RedBlacks. And when we saw the sawblade, it was like, 'Aha, this is it.'
The sawblade is a tribute to Ottawa's heritage as a logging town. The sawblade is menacing, scary. Wait until you see the image on a huge jumbotron, the logo sawing through the opposition logo.
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http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/06/08/...r-the-cfl-team
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OK, so now we're even
But we still don't know about that 'RedBlacks' name! Here's hoping it has nothing to do with Native Canadians and African Canadians
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Up north that would be a chocolate chip
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Not sure I'd like to see their mascot!!!!!
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