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Canadian Football League ... Canadian football: Founded: January 19, 1958 (67 years ago) () [1] [2] First season ... becoming the third Ottawa franchise in CFL history.
Canadian Football League. Archived from the original on 2012-06-07 "Grey Cup history". The Sports Network. Archived from the original on 2007-12-29 "Canadian Football League -- Grey Cup Champions". Canadian Online Explorer. "Grey Cup Almanac – Past Winners". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Canadian football: Founded: 1907; 118 years ago ... were founded. At the time the sport was generally called ... who have played in the West for most of their history.
After the merger of the Big Four and WIFU, the first 29 CFL seasons each consisted of nine teams playing in the same nine cities. [1] In 1961, inter-conference play began during the regular season. Until 1973, Western Canadian teams played 16 games, while Eastern Canadian teams played 14 games.
Two notable events occurred off-field at the end of the 1950s. In 1958 the Argonauts became a founding member of the Canadian Football League and a year later found a new home at Exhibition Stadium. [note 3] The Argonauts have won a record 19 Grey Cups, but suffered through a 31-year championship drought from 1952 to 1983.
The fledgling ESPN cable network signed a deal in 1980 to broadcast 30 CFL regular season games and the playoffs (including the Grey Cup game) in the United States, and CFL games became a fixture of the early years of the network. Two years later, in 1982, after NFL players went on strike in September, the CFL got another chance at major ...
Founded: January 12, 2016; 9 years ago ... with the Canadian Football League . [4 ... 18–14 to become champions for the first time in franchise history. ...
Wally Buono is the all-time leader in both wins and losses with 282 wins, 165 losses, and three ties. Eleven coaches have more than 100 wins and only Buono and Don Matthews have more than 200. As of the end of the 2024 CFL season , the active head coach with the most wins is Mike O'Shea , who has 107 wins and 69 losses.