Montreal Alouettes are a professional Canadian football team based in Montreal, Quebec.
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25 Facts About Montreal Alouettes
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The Alouettes compete in the East Division of the Canadian Football League and last won the Grey Cup championship in 2010.
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Current Montreal Alouettes franchise was established in 1996 by the owners of the Baltimore Stallions.
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Latest incarnation of the Montreal Alouettes were arguably the best CFL team of the 2000s; they took home three Grey Cups in that decade bringing the franchise total to seven.
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The Montreal Alouettes had from 1996 to 2014 the CFL's longest active playoff streak, only having missed the playoffs three times since returning to the league.
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The 2015 through 2018 Montreal Alouettes' seasons marked the first time the team missed the playoffs in consecutive years since their re-activation.
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Montreal Alouettes are currently owned by Crawford Steel executives Sid Spiegel and Gary Stern, who took over the team on January 6,2020; the team had been purchased by the CFL in 2019 after the previous owner, American businessman Robert Wetenhall, could not find a buyer.
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The Montreal Alouettes were first formed in 1946 by Canadian Football Hall of Famer Lew Hayman along with businessmen Eric Cradock and Leo Dandurand.
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The 1970 season culminated when the Montreal Alouettes won the 58th Grey Cup, played on November 28 at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium before a crowd of 32,669.
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Montreal Alouettes sold the team to Vancouver businessman Nelson Skalbania.
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CFL had anticipated the collapse of the Montreal Alouettes, and was well prepared when Skalbania returned the franchise to the league.
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Bronfman retained most of the Montreal Alouettes' coaching staff, including recently hired head coach Joe Galat, and most of the Montreal Alouettes' front office personnel.
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New Montreal Alouettes folded on June 24,1987, just a day before the 1987 regular season started.
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Montreal Alouettes believed that the defending Grey Cup champions would be a better vehicle for reviving football in Montreal than what would have effectively been an expansion team.
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Montreal Alouettes ultimately chose the latter course, reconstituting his organisation as the third incarnation of the Alouettes.
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The Montreal Alouettes are now retconned as having suspended operations from 1987 to 1995, while the Stallions are officially one of only three modern-era Grey Cup champions to fold.
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The Montreal Alouettes do briefly mention the Stallions on their history page.
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The Montreal Alouettes got off to a good start, winning 25 games and losing 11 in their first two seasons, and reaching the East Division Finals both times.
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Fortunes for the Montreal Alouettes started to change during the 1998 season, when they acquired a young free agent quarterback from the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Anthony Calvillo, and they drafted slotback Ben Cahoon.
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The Montreal Alouettes finally broke through in 1999, under new head coach Charlie Taaffe, winning their first division title since 1979.
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Also interested was former Montreal Alouettes running back Eric Lapointe, whose 2017 bid had been rejected but has maintained interest in buying the team, and Vincenzo Guzzo, CEO of Quebec's Cinemas Guzzo cinema chain.
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The Montreal Alouettes improved play during that season was attributable to the performance of their quarterback Vernon Adams who passed for almost 4,000 yards.
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On January 6,2020, after almost a year of being owned by the league, the Montreal Alouettes found new ownership in Crawford Steel's Sid Spiegel and Gary Stern, whose holding company S and S Sportsco will oversee the team.
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