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57-661: 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

114-606: 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

171-542: 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

228-539: 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

285-583: 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

342-506: 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

399-588: Is a Canadian businessman who is the chairman of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS). He was also the 12th commissioner of the Canadian Football League . The son of McDonald's Canada founder George Cohon , he was appointed as commissioner in 2007 succeeding Tom Wright . Cohon was born in Chicago , Illinois , and moved to Toronto , Ontario when he was two years old. He holds both Canadian and American citizenship. Cohon

456-579: Is a graduate of Upper Canada College and Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science majoring in communication studies. Cohon worked for the National Basketball Association as head of international marketing and Major League Baseball International as head of corporate development. He then became president and chief executive officer of AudienceView Ticketing, a company which sells ticketing systems and services to sports, arts and entertainment events. In 2003, Cohon

513-522: 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,

570-461: 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"

627-508: 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

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684-890: 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

741-689: 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

798-427: 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

855-759: 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

912-519: 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. Mark Cohon Mark Steven Cohon , OOnt MSM (born March 16, 1966)

969-462: 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

1026-762: 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,

1083-623: 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

1140-750: 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

1197-580: 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

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1254-409: 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

1311-530: 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

1368-613: 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

1425-460: 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,

1482-632: The Canadian music industry and to contribute toward higher artistic and industry standards" as well as overseeing the annual Juno Awards for the Canadian music industry. Given his success at transforming the CFL, the CARAS board wanted to bring in an experienced executive outside the music industry to transform the future of the Juno Awards. Mark is also Chair of Toronto Global, an organization funded by three levels of government charged with promoting

1539-442: 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,

1596-581: 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

1653-463: 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

1710-538: 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

1767-640: 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

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1824-519: 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

1881-404: 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

1938-665: 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

1995-638: The Toronto region around the world and attracting foreign direct investment. The Toronto Global team led the RFP process for Amazon HQ2, making it to the short list of 20 North American cities and the only Canadian city on that list. Their Amazon HQ2 bid book was widely praised as a document that truly captured the excitement and growth that is happening in the Toronto region. On the business front, Georgian Bay Spirit Co shows Mark as chairman and partner in that company. According to their website, they won best Vodka in

2052-476: The building of $ 2 billion in new stadiums to the expansion back to Ottawa, to overseeing two labour agreements to the national celebration of the 100th Grey Cup and finally to the tripling of TV revenues with a new contract with Bell media, Cohon is credited in bringing back the CFL to prominence in Canada. In August 2014, Cohon announced that he would not seek a third term as CFL Commissioner, announcing that he had completed everything he set out to accomplish and it

2109-414: 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

2166-400: 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

2223-476: 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,

2280-423: 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

2337-412: 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

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2394-523: 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

2451-475: 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

2508-428: 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

2565-468: 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

2622-454: 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

2679-498: 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,

2736-423: 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

2793-413: 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

2850-564: 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,

2907-550: 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

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2964-563: 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

3021-691: Was appointed to the board of trustees of the Ontario Science Centre and then named Chair in 2006. In 2013, he was made a Member of the Order of Ontario and in 2015, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal . In 2007 , Mark Cohon succeeded Tom Wright as the Commissioner of the Canadian Football League . Under the direction of Cohon the CFL went through a remarkable renaissance. From record TV ratings to

3078-444: 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

3135-461: 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

3192-506: 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,

3249-445: Was time to seek new challenges in his career. He stepped down on January 9, 2015, and was replaced by board chairperson Jim Lawson on an interim basis. Jeffrey Orridge was appointed the new CFL Commissioner effective April 29, 2015. On September 29, 2015, Cohon was appointed as the new chairman of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), a non-profit organization responsible for "preserv(ing) and enhanc(ing)

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