Canadian Football
Also in 2008, on September 12 in Toronto and October 10 in Winnipeg, the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts and Winnipeg Blue Bombers wore replicas of the uniforms the teams wore during the 1950s. Toronto's jerseys were a light blue in colour, with dark blue striping on the sleeves and the team's old "Pull Together" football-as-a-ship logo on the shoulders. The Blue Bomber jerseys were a dark blue in colour, with gold sleeve stripes. The team's 1950s-era logo was on the front of the jersey, just below the V in the neck. A special CFL "Retro Week" logo adorned each jersey as well, that logo being a take-off of the maple leaf one used as the league symbol from 1954 through 1969. This became an annual tradition starting with the 2009 campaign with all teams putting on replica of 1960s uniforms each team wore. The league had another retro week the next year, this time with 1970s jerseys. However the following year there was no 1980s retro week
The Saskatchewan Roughriders have also worn a popular throwback uniform since 2007 in addition to the league wide movement to wearing the uniforms of the designated decade. The Roughriders wore these throwback uniforms and helmets in the 2009 Grey Cup Championship game.
When Reebok took over the CFL uniform contract in 2012, several of the league's teams took the opportunity to redesign their jerseys to more closely resemble their past incarnations; this was in preparation for the 100th Grey Cup.
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