This is another game recap offered up as a post because it would have been an awkward fit on the team's basic info page.
The Renegades started their inaugural 2002 season with an overtime loss at home to Saskatchewan.
They travelled to Edmonton the next week and lost there 40-24. They had started strong in that game but it unraveled on them.
Their third game was at home against a Winnipeg team that had accumulated a 14-4 record the previous year and lost the Grey Cup game to Calgary. There wasn't much reason for optimism and yet, somehow, the Renegades pulled it off.
The 'Gades were playing in Winnipeg the following week. I recall telling the Winnipeg fan sitting behind me to let Ottawa fans have their fun for a while because Winnipeg was going to murder the Renegades in the next game.
Sure enough, the Blue Bombers won that one 55-07. I was really just trying to be polite and sportsmanlike, I would have been perfectly happy with being wrong...
The Renegades only won three more games all year. Two of those were also only by one point including the last game in Montreal in which the Als were resting many of their better players for a playoff run. The four-win total was not particularly impressive but at the time it was considered respectable enough for an expansion team.
Sure enough, the Blue Bombers won that one 55-07. I was really just trying to be polite and sportsmanlike, I would have been perfectly happy with being wrong...
The Renegades only won three more games all year. Two of those were also only by one point including the last game in Montreal in which the Als were resting many of their better players for a playoff run. The four-win total was not particularly impressive but at the time it was considered respectable enough for an expansion team.
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