1989 Regina Saskatchewan Roughriders Grey Cup Festival CFL football pin

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1989 Regina Saskatchewan Roughriders Grey Cup Festival CFL football pin made by Laurie Artiss.
This 32 year old pin is in like new condition.
The
Saskatchewan Roughriders
are a professional
Canadian football
team based in
Regina
,
Saskatchewan
. The Roughriders compete in the
Canadian Football League
(CFL) as a member club of the league's
West division
.
The Roughriders were founded in 1910 as the
Regina Rugby Club
. Although Saskatchewan was not the first team to play football in
Western Canada
, the club has maintained an unbroken organizational continuity since their founding. The Roughriders are the fourth-oldest professional
gridiron football
team in existence today (only the
Arizona Cardinals
,
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
and
Toronto Argonauts
are older), and one of the oldest professional sports teams still in existence in North America. Of these teams, the Roughriders are both the oldest still in existence that continuously has been based in Western Canada (as well as the oldest-surviving team in the CFL's present-day West Division) as well as the oldest in North America to continuously have been based west of
St. Louis, Missouri
. They are also the continent's oldest community-owned professional sports franchise, older than every American professional sports team outside
baseball
other than the aforementioned Cardinals (who, unlike the Roughriders, no longer play in their original city, and have moved twice in their history) and older than every Canadian sports team outside football except the
Montreal Canadiens
, who were founded about nine months prior to the Roughriders. The team changed their name to the
Regina Roughriders
from the
Regina Rugby Club
in 1924 and finally to the current moniker in 1946. The Roughriders played their home games at historic
Taylor Field
from
1936
to 2016; in
2017
, the team moved to the newly constructed
Mosaic Stadium
at Evraz Place.
The team draws fans from across
Saskatchewan
and Canada who are affectionately known as the
Rider Nation
.
The Roughriders play in the smallest market in the CFL, and the second-smallest major-league market in North America (only
Green Bay, Wisconsin
, is smaller). They have finished first in what is now the West Division eight times and have won the Western championship a record 28 times. They have played for the
Grey Cup
19 times, winning four.
The team has had 20 players inducted into the
Canadian Football Hall of Fame
. The Riders' biggest rival is the
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
; games between the two are often sold out before the beginning of the season. The Roughriders Football Club and the city of Regina have hosted the Grey Cup three times, including a Roughrider win in the
101st Grey Cup
.
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