Little OT but not sure people understand why there were two teams with the same name. There is a reason you know, it wasn't just a joke.
When Ottawa and Saskatchewan formed, they were in two separate leagues. They did not play each other.
When the CFL formed in 1956, it amalgamated all the teams into one league, and you got two teams with a lot of history behind them with nearly the same name. (Roughriders vs Rough Riders)
It's not embarrassing if you know the history. It's actually really cool that it happened that way. There is well over 100 years of football heritage in Canada and this is just one of the quirks in that history.
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