University of Laval Rouge Et Or arrived in Saskatoon to face the Huskies for the Mitchell Bowl, riding a 19 game winning streak.
It’s been six years since the Huskies watched Laval fans spit at them as they negotiated a scary tunnel onto the field. From there, they watched their mascot dangling from a noose, on fire.
Then came the raucous booing of the national anthem — complete with a couple of guys running onto the field, madly waving Quebec flags as the strains of O Canada washed weakly over the frenzied crowd.
“And this was all prior to the game,” recalls Doug Rozon, who played tailback on that 1999 Huskies team.
Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, au revoir!
This is unbeliavable! You mean to tell me people play football in Canada?
Okay, that was mean. I’ll go sit in the “Ugly American” corner now.
“…riding a 19 game winning streak.”
Pffft, the Carleton Ravens football team hasn’t lost a game in ten years.
“You mean to tell me people play football in Canada?”
For now, yes, it’s still legal…
“After presenting the feasibility study, in our estimation it looked like we could move forward with that venture,� he said. �Previously [Carleton president Richard Van Loon] told us it wasn�t so much financial support that he was concerned about, but it would be the other cost that would come with it in terms of (providing) facilities and gender equity.�
If football returned, the department of athletics would likely need to create two women�s teams to maintain the balance between male and female student-athletes.
The Old Crows guaranteed long-term financial stability, backed with an independent feasibility study conducted by the department of alumni services, but it wasn�t enough to convince director of athletics Drew Love or the university to bring the program back.
In this study, the Old Crows presented a plan that would not take money away from existing programs.Their proposal, which also promised competitive teams, was also to be a community-university model, similar to programs at L�Universite de Laval, the University of Regina and the University of Toronto.
McKerrow says he�s willing to work with Carleton if the university approaches him with an offer to bring football back. But he says the offer must provide solutions to concerns with facilities, funding and gender equity.“
Jim Daley for Governor General!
I heard the stories of how bad the spectators were in Laval a few years back but I didn’t actaully link it to the team until todays game. I counted at least ten to fifteen times that Laval guys took cheap shots at the Huskies when getting up off a scrum. We are talking poking eyes, kicking, and hitting from behind. I can’t believe the officials turned a blind eye to all of that. Then, at the end of the game, when the Huskie punter went down to run time off the clock and hit the turf down at his 30, a Laval player came up and cranked him when he was on the ground. Laval is classless. Then in the ensuing scrum, a Laval player took a shot at a fan who was half the size of him and without pads. The Laval player continued to hit him while the fan was on the ground with no padding on or helmet. Big brave Laval player hitting an unprotected fan without padding. The end of the game was a fiasco on the part of Laval. These Laval players are a joke, and the coaching staff must be a joke as well to let this happen on their team. I have never seen such a disgusting level of sportsmanship in my 40 years on this earth. Thank god the right team won.
Reminds me of a social/business event I once hosted for a customer in Laval. I funded the evening, made all the arrangements, and was treated ignorantly. Since that evening, I have written off Quebec, have not returned to there, and refuse to invest or spend a dime there. No other foreign customer has ever treated me with such disrespect. Vive le Quebec Libre, et bon chance.
As someone who has played and coached the game of football all my life, I can tell you that goon players and liquored up, ignorant fans have no particular geographical or language preference. They are everywhere. In fact, when it comes to the CFL, some of the worst fans in terms of drunken, abusive behaviour can be found in allegedly “laid back” Vancouver.
Why do they hate us??
Probably because of what we say about them.
Oh, so it’s our fault then?
No, we’re just retaliating against what they say about us.
Yeah I thought so Maple, just teasing you. I knew what you meant.
they hate us because we have created a culture of dependancy with them and they want independance. kind of like when as a teen you hated your dad because he didnt let you do whatever you wanted. you wanted more allowance and greater freedom and when you kept asking for more and he finally said no , you were mad.
Quebec is the most spoiled child of the whole lot. PEI is always the baby , and Newfoundland – the Timmy in the wheelchair.
I remember Rozon and his fullback counterpart at the time, Todd Lynden, telling me about their experience in 1999. This victory was a long time coming, a year late, considering Bilan’s injury prior to the 2004 Vanier. It’s a beautiful thing to have won on the soon-to-be-old Griffin Stadium. Man, I wished I could’ve been there myself.
Cal2, that’s incredibly offensive to say that about Newfoundland, even if it was just a general description of the situation – in which case it was a poor one.
You want an accurate description of Newfoundland’s place in Canada? Try Cinderella – the beautiful girl kept in semi-slavery by her evil stepsisters, Ontario and Quebec. The reason things are the way they are with Newfoundland has a lot to do with the Ontario and Quebec-first policies of the federal government. You want an example of this? We had to take down the CANADIAN FLAG to rightfully get what was already OURS in the Atlantic Accord dispute. The only reason we got it in the end was because that idiot Martin was getting worried at the prospect of the words “Prime Minister Stephen Harper.” In a majority government situation, they would have just ignored us like usual. But Dalton McGuinty whines for five minutes that Ontario isn’t getting it’s fair share and a check for six billion dollars is in the mail before the tears have dried. Likewise, the same happened with Quebec just recently. Oh to have more than seven seats in parliament.
And as per the post, I’m glad the right team won. ‘Bout time.
Dante, if NFLD wasn’t selling its hydro at 25 cents on the dollar to Quebec and could properly manage what precious little it has (cukes anyone!), Cinderella – the beautiful girl wouldn’t have ended up looking like an airhead.
Please don’t judge all Quebeckers by comparing us to a football team.
Some (few) of us are polite, english and libertarian.
Vivre le Quebec Libre from big government.
Go Als!
Maple, you still don’t get it. First off, that’s not the cost at which hydro power is sold to Quebec. The reason NL sells it’s hydro at such a ridiculously low price to Quebec is the result of idiot former Liberal premier and noted small-town charlatan Joey Smallwood. This scheming bastard, who incidentally engineered the pro-confederation vote in NL, thought it would be a good policy move to make a mega-project that would look good and garner him some more votes. Of course, he was less concerned with getting a good deal. As a result, he gave a set rate for the hydro to the Quebec government, instead of realizing that, “gee, maybe the price will rise someday.” Thanks to this brilliant example of Liberal politics, we’re getting 1960 rates for electricity in the good old year of 2005. As I’ve stated, getting a good deal wasn’t his concern at the time. The same thing happened with another idiot former liberal premier and noted small-town charlatan Roger Grimes, who gave away one of the world’s largest Iron Ore reserves, Voisey’s Bay, for next to nothing. See a pattern here? Liberals = idiots + give-aways.
As I was saying before, central government policies also hinder our development. When we went to the Supreme Court of Canada to try to adjust a contract that is clearly unfavourable, and to get the right to transport a product (hydro electricity) through Quebec without having to sell it to Quebec first, the court (which hasn’t one Newfoundlander on it) of course sided with Quebec. Can you imagine Alberta being forced by the government to sell it’s oil or wheat to Ontario, because it goes through Ontario on the way to the states, so that Ontario gets to sell it to the US at an inflated price and gets all the benefit?
Do you see the pattern yet, Maple?
If you bothered to actually take the time to look at this issue, Maple, you’d begin to figure out who the real airhead is.
Poor sportsmanship they should be rejected from the stadium
The only thing I really want them to win is the next referendum. Please don�t screw it up this time.