Ottawa Renegades
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| Founded | 2002 |
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| Suspended | 2006 |
| Folded | 2008 |
| Based in | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Home field | Frank Clair Stadium |
| Division | East Division |
| Colours | Black, red, white, pewter, and tan |
| Nickname(s) | Gades |
| Mascot(s) | Ruffy the Beaver |
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Ottawa Renegades was the name of a Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa, Ontario founded in 2002, six years after the storied Ottawa Rough Riders folded. After four seasons, the Renegades franchise was suspended indefinitely by the league due to financial instability, and its players were absorbed by the other teams in a dispersal draft.
After two years in limbo, a new franchise was awarded to Jeff Hunt, best known as the owner of the Ottawa 67's, in March 2008. The new franchise was revived in 2014 as the Ottawa Redblacks. Hunt chose not to reuse the Renegades nickname or franchise history, therefore leaving the Renegade franchise as being contracted.
The Ottawa Renegades returned Canadian Football League action to Canada's capital in 2002. Ottawa had been without a team since 1996, when the Ottawa Rough Riders folded. The logo chosen draws similarities to the logo used by the Rough Riders for much of their existence up until 1992. The Renegades played four seasons and never qualified for the playoffs. In May 2005, Bernard Glieberman (former owner of the Rough Riders and the CFL USA's Shreveport Pirates) took ownership of the team, and made his son Lonie Glieberman team president, and many of the same names they had employed during the unsuccessful years of Glieberman's ownership of their previous teams started reappearing (for example, Bjorn Nittmo, by this point severely brain-damaged and out of football since 1998, was brought in as a potential kicker in the 2005 season). The team's only head coach was Joe Paopao. On November 7, 2005, the Ottawa Renegades announced John Jenkins as head coach and General Manager for 2006, with Forrest Gregg serving as the team's Executive VP for football. However, this did not occur because of the suspension of the team's operations.
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