Talk:Saskatchewan Roughriders

Major league market?
The CFL is not a major league. I have nothing against the CFL but its best players are perpetually poached by the NFL, it has a salary cap of less than 5 millions. The CFL and MLS are not major leagues. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E35:2E96:BA90:4DE7:D446:2B29:486A (talk) 21:04, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

2007 Season
I think we can nix the Labour Day Classic rivals appearing against each other in a Grey Cup game since of the three traditional Classic rivals, Saskatchewan and Winnipeg are the only two to be in the opposite division. I will accept if we keep it in, but we should qualify that the only other chance of such a meeting would be through a crossover match. Bleeding Green 192.75.185.254 (talk) 15:38, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

I have one question about the Labour day rivals in the Grey Cup, and that is that in the past, The BC Lions and the Montreal Allouettes have played each other, we should mention that this does qualify as a labour day matchup, it is overlooked because it is not a classic rivalry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.47.197.148 (talk) 17:49, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

BC vs. Montreal is not considered part of the Labour Day Classic, however (as in years past, BC has sometimes played Ottawa on that weekend in the absence of a team in Montreal). So technically, they aren't really 'rivals' in that sense.

Main Rivals
I don't know what others think, but I would argue that the B.C. Lions are more of a rival than the Eskimos. While the Eskimos have always been a playoff thorn in the side of the 'Riders, I think the Lions-Riders games have had more drama/passion involved for years now. ThePrairieDawg 05:21, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * It all depends on who you talk to. And what year it is, and what the standings are. Because of the Esk's sucking the last two seasons, the BC games have been more important to fans too. -Royalguard11 (T·R!) 03:13, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Anyone else think that the NDP goverment is a rival? The Riders have never won a Grey Cup under the CCF or the NDP. That could also go under Trivia and will be more important after Sunday. Bleeding Green70.64.70.201 (talk) 02:44, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * No I don't think that belongs on here. That simply invites political sniping on an otherwise non-political page. That could perhaps go on an NDP page though. Shootmaster 44 (talk) 06:16, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * All that is a good use of the correlation fallacy, which is an error in judgement. All that's happened is we've sucked the last 17 years, in part because of the Barret era. You would have to successfully argue that the Riders are purposely sucking while the NDP is in government, because the government has no control over what happens in football. -Royalguard11 (T·R!) 19:08, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Smallest city to have a pro sports team
This isn't right. Excluding the metro area (Which is the norm on Wikipedia), Green Bay, Wisconsin is smaller than Regina.Plasma Twa 2 06:32, 24 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I removed the statement for now, as it's not true and no one seems to object. Plasma Twa 2 10:26, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

2 Roughriders?
Why did the CFL used to have two teams called the Rough Riders? I heard that on South Park once they showed two Canadien football teams called the Rough Riders playing against eachother in an episode. Did they just like that name or something? Sherlock32 00:46, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Long story short Sherlock . . . Originally there were two separate leagues which only played each other in the Grey Cup. In 1924, the Ottawa Rough Riders (who were in the Eastern league) changed their names to the "Senators", and the Regina Rugby Club (who were in the Western league) took the opportunity to take the name Roughriders. (There are two theories as to why this name was adopted in Regina). The Senators changed their name back, and eventually the two leagues merged resulting in the Roughriders and Rough Riders. However, the Rough Riders (Ottawa was two words as opposed to Saskatchewan's single word) folded in 1996, leaving only the Saskatchewan Roughriders.71.17.17.79 (talk) 05:57, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Not to be Forgotten??
Are Patrick Thibeault, Fred McNair and Maurice Butler really "not to be forgotten"? Patrick Thibeault spent three years with the team, and hardly ever touched the ball. Fred McNair spent one year with the team and his only claim to fame is being the older brother of Steve, the true "Air McNair". Maurice Butler is before my time, but his only claim to fame seems to be leading the team with 283 punt return yards in 1978. 71.17.17.79 (talk) 06:11, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Agreed. That section looks more than a little fan-ish, rather that encyclopedic.  I'd be in favour of nuking it.  All players with pages should be in the Roughriders player category anyways.  Leafschik1967 (talk) 19:32, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * All the other CFL pages do have a section for that. But some of the players are dubious choices. Perhaps a better section would be a list of the Plaza of Honour members. Since football doesn't retire numbers quite like the rest of the leagues, it would be a good idea to list the Plaza members. Shootmaster 44 (talk) 08:43, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * With Yo Murphy announcing his retirement, I moved him to this list. If people feel he does not belong there feel free to delete him. Shootmaster 44 (talk) 00:09, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Team Shares
''Shares in the team are available for purchase. As of November 2007 shares were available for $250 Canadian. Class A voting shares grant the owner one vote per share (up to 20 votes). Other benefits of shares include discounts on season tickets, the option to buy preferred parking, access to exclusive Shareholder events, 15% off all Rider merchandise at the Rider Store as well as access to Rider Share Wear clothing line (which is exclusive to Shareholders), priority in upgrading season tickets, and automatic entry into Shareholder contests.'' I removed the preceding section from the article. Perhaps something about voting shares being publicly available could replace it, but as it was, this sounded like a press release trying to get people to buy shares.Leafschik1967 14:30, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
 * If you want to find the link and put it in, then by all means do. Someone added a shares page from Riderville.com and it came up as nothing. So I put this one in its place as it had to with the shares part of the article. Mr. C.C. (talk) 18:40, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Transaction Section
I'm not sure we really need a transactions section for this page. If anything it belongs on a 2008 Saskatchewan Roughriders Season page. However, I won't remove it unless we feel this is not necessary. I think the CFL's page does a good enough job for transactions and I diligently update the roster from that page, so I'm not sure its necessary. Anyone else have any thoughts? Shootmaster 44 (talk) 22:56, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Darnell Edwards
Can someone find a place for Darnell Edwards in this article so we can remove the orphan tag from Darnell Edwards? Kingturtle (talk) 19:50, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

2010 Centennial Year
Roughrider's centennial occurs in 2010 with several new activities and media events and books being published. SriMesh | talk  16:03, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Most of the refs are formatted wrong
Most of the refs are formatted wrong. They are inline external links, and need to be enclosed in ref tags. I fixed one but the others need to be fixed too. Rees11 (talk) 21:21, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Instead of fixing just one, you could have just fixed them all. Mr. C.C. (talk) 23:44, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I fixed the references and put up citation needed tags where articles were either a blank page or you needed to login to special service such as the Globe & Mail has you do to view the article. I also put section citation tags in the section where they don't have any.  Mr. C.C. (talk) 18:36, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Music
If the music is notable, could we not do better than this source? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saskatchewan_Roughriders&curid=254166&diff=480426048&oldid=480213267 It does not strike me as an RS. Dbrodbeck (talk) 03:04, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * If you want a better source, than look for one instead of outright removing a link when you can easily use an archived one if it's dead.  Mr. C.C. Hey yo!I didn't do it! 03:12, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The current source does not strike me as one that meets WP:RS. I removed a dead link. We are now discussing it on the talk page, that is how things work usually.  (I am all for the info if we can find a RS). Dbrodbeck (talk) 03:21, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

player i.d's
have purchased a sask roughrider clock with with sask players on it. am trying to put a name to the player numbers. year 2007-#55,year 1966-#22,year 1989-#66,year 1970-#33 also a player with no number from 1936. appreciate any help. thanks for now. this is an official cfl clock i think. it has the cfl logo onit — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lltinman47 (talk • contribs) 03:04, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

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Watermelon helmet source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXp1BGNXoGM — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.21.3.119 (talk) 03:27, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Date of name change to Saskatchewan Roughriders
[This link] says 1946, [this link] suggests 1948 and [this link] suggests after the 1949 season. When was it? The best I can speculate is that although they may have rebranded themselves as Saskatchewan Roughriders as early as 1946, they did not legally change their name until April 1, 1950, as suggested by yet more references. Perhaps too fine a point but I think the ambiguity in the various sources should be addressed. Newwhist (talk) 13:13, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

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Saskatchewan Roughriders fan base
Correction; The CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders fan base is named Riderville not Rider Nation. 65.87.242.66 (talk) 02:25, 20 September 2023 (UTC)