CFL season starts tonight and I'd just like to suggest to #Ottawa fans that while your team name is powerfully dorky, "Rouge et Noir" is much less so than "Redblacks." Drop the bilingualism and go straight French.
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CFL season starts tonight and I'd just like to suggest to #Ottawa fans that while your team name is powerfully dorky, "Rouge et Noir" is much less so than "Redblacks." Drop the bilingualism and go straight French.
If I understand correctly, the team chose this name because it was inspired by the red and black clothing historically worn by the region's lumberjacks and the unis of the Governor General's Foot Guard soldiers at parliament. But you didn't go with "Lumberjacks" or "Foot Guard"? #CFL
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CFL season starts tonight and I'd just like to suggest to #Ottawa fans that while your team name is powerfully dorky, "Rouge et Noir" is much less so than "Redblacks." Drop the bilingualism and go straight French.
If I understand correctly, the team chose this name because it was inspired by the red and black clothing historically worn by the region's lumberjacks and the unis of the Governor General's Foot Guard soldiers at parliament. But you didn't go with "Lumberjacks" or "Foot Guard"? #CFL
@sendtherunners I kind of love "Redblacks" for the very reason that it's "powerfully dorky" - if I remember correctly, easy translation between French and English was another one of the stated reasons for the name.
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@sendtherunners I kind of love "Redblacks" for the very reason that it's "powerfully dorky" - if I remember correctly, easy translation between French and English was another one of the stated reasons for the name.
That tracks. Ottawa 67s is way more clever and plays in both languages a lot better. It can be done!
At the bare minimum, the league has come along way from the days when there were two teams called the Rough Riders...
