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Originally Posted by Trevor3
The Ottawa RedBlacks brought the Grey Cup to NL. There is no football played here. We have more rugby, squash, and cricket participation than football, so it was a strange choice, but the owner of the team is from here so he brought it home.
Grey Cup makes visit to Corner Brook
http://www.thewesternstar.com/sports...ner-brook.html
There's an attempt to try and get youth football off the ground too. It was tried a few years ago but it failed pretty badly, this will be attempt number 2. I am not optimistic.
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Not often you have Squash a more popular sport than football in anywhere in North America, (although I know of a member from Canadian National Squash team is from Regina) but i'd imagine Newfoundland has kept strong colonial ties to sports from years & years ago.
Football in the Midwest and the Plains in North America is top dog, 'Friday Night Lights' culture & College Stadiums of over 100,000 seats & popularity of Dallas Cowboys as World's most valuable sports team etc..
That said though, hockey is the tie that holds all of Canada together in one sport from coast to coast.
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Originally posted by HomeInMyShoes
Congratultions to the Regina Pats as the Eastern Conference champions in the Western Hockey League. First time in 34 years the Pats are playing in the WHL final. I remember listening to the play-by-play on the radio back in the day, staying up way past my bedtime to do so.
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The Regina Pats were the big winner at the WHL awards yesterday, here's hoping for winning the title for league Championships against Seattle starting this weekend, would be wonderful to see success continue for them with all their tradition..
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