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https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2026/04/24/robokicker-dave-ridgway-retires/ · 24 Apr 2026
On April 24, 1996, one of the most prolific kickers to play the Canadian game announced his retirement. Dave Ridgway played every game throughout his 14-year career in the Canadian Football League with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Born in England, his fam...
https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2026/03/26/the-cfls-early-websites/ · 26 Mar 2026
At high school in the mid 1990s we were asked to use a new technology called the "World Wide Web” for a research project. Yours truly balked and wanted to stick with the tried-and-true volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica. I told my friend that I would giv...
https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2026/03/05/cfl-ends-u-s-expansion-retreats-back-to-canada/ · 5 Mar 2026
On Friday February 2, 1996, the Canadian Football League officially ended its American expansion efforts. During the CFL’s annual winter meetings, the league announced that the Birmingham Barracudas, Memphis Mad Dogs, San Antonio Texans, and Shreveport P...
https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2026/02/27/pirate-ball-comes-to-the-cfl/ · 27 Feb 2026
Of all the U.S. cities that the CFL awarded teams to as part of its American expansion in the 1990s, Shreveport had to be the most obscure choice. Whereas the other cities had teams in the defunct World League of American Football (e.g., Sacramento, San An...
https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2026/02/11/a-fan-remembers-the-baltimore-stallions/ · 11 Feb 2026
Baltimore Stallions logo (SportsLogos.Net) Doug Phillips was just five years old when his father took him to his first football game at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. He got to see the Johnny Unitas, the legendary quarterback of the old Baltimore...
https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2026/02/04/cfl-adds-more-american-teams/ · 4 Feb 2026
After the Sacramento Gold Miners joined the Canadian Football League in 1993 and despite some scepticism and opposition, the league sought to grow its footprint in the United States with additional teams in 1994 and 1995. Here is a look back at some of the...
https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2026/01/21/winnipeg-leads-opposition-to-cfl-american-expansion/ · 21 Jan 2026
When the Canadian Football League rolled out American expansion in the early 1990s, support for the idea was far from unanimous. Yes, proponents argued that U.S. expansion was the way forward to grow the league and to help stabilize the struggling Canadian...
https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2026/01/07/the-cfl-expands-to-the-usa/ · 7 Jan 2026
When I first started following CFL football in the early 1990s, two issues dominated the league: struggling Canadian franchises and U.S. expansion. They kind of went hand in hand, the idea being that an injection of American money and new markets would hel...
https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2025/11/05/flutie-freezes-as-edmonton-defeats-calgary-in-frigid-snowy-1993-western-final/ · 5 Nov 2025
Canadian football in November can be cold - especially when played on the Prairies. Bone-chilling temperatures, coupled with blowing snow, made the 1993 Western Final at McMahon Stadium between the Calgary Stampeders and the Edmonton Eskimos one of those g...
https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2025/10/01/portland-hosts-fast-break-cfl-football-precursor-to-cfl-usa-expansion/ · 1 Oct 2025
In 1992, the Canadian Football League was looking to grow. Larry Smith was appointed the CFL’s new commissioner with a mandate to expand the CFL. Of course, Montreal and Halifax were high on Smith’s list of potential sites. But so, too, were several ci...