21 Facts About Toronto Argonauts

Toronto Argonauts are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League, based in Toronto, Ontario.

The Toronto Argonauts played their home games at Rogers Centre from 1989 until 2016 when the team moved to BMO Field, the fifth stadium site to host the team.

Toronto Argonauts have won the Grey Cup a record 17 times and have appeared in the final 23 times.

The Toronto Argonauts have faced every current western CFL team at least once in the Grey Cup, while their most celebrated divisional rivalry has been with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Since the team's foundation in 1873, "the Toronto Argonauts" name has been in continuous use, a record in North American professional sports.

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One major outstanding issue within the CRU at the time was the role of professional versus amateur players; this dispute caused the Toronto Argonauts to withdraw from the league in 1903 and eventually led to the establishment of a new league, The Big Four or Interprovincial Rugby Football League.

Toronto Argonauts was vice-president of the ORFU for the 1905 and 1906 seasons, and sought for ORFU to have uniform rules of play with the CRU, with a preference to use the snap-back system of play.

In 1958 the Toronto Argonauts became a founding member of the Canadian Football League and a year later found a new home at Exhibition Stadium.

Toronto Argonauts did have some standout players in the 1950s and 1960s.

Toronto Argonauts saw winning seasons from 2005 to 2007 before bottoming out the next two years.

Early success in the final can partly be attributed to the weakness of western teams: between 1921 and 1952 the Toronto Argonauts won in nine straight appearances, including six straight against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Two critical opportunities to find a new home were missed in 2004 and 2005: plans for a revamped Varsity Stadium to accommodate CFL-sized crowds were thwarted by community opposition in 2004, and the Toronto Argonauts withdrew from an alternate plan at York University the following year.

Toronto Argonauts sold his share to Len Lumbers just two years into his tenure in part because of Bassett's controlling nature.

Toronto Argonauts was simultaneously owner of the BC Lions, raising questions of competitive integrity.

Toronto Argonauts has succeeded in reviving a stalled offence and led the team to a Grey Cup victory in 2017.

Toronto Argonauts games are currently carried on TSN's national and regional television channel as part of CFL on TSN broadcasts.

Notable broadcasters for the Toronto Argonauts include John Badham who had three tenures on three separate radio stations and later inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1995.

In 2014, the Toronto Argonauts reignited their historic rivalry with an Ottawa football Team as the team came back as the Ottawa REDBLACKS .

At the Grey Cup level, the Toronto Argonauts have faced an assortment of teams in recent decades rather than any one team regularly.

Six Toronto Argonauts have been recipients: Chad Owens, Damon Allen, Doug Flutie, Pinball Clemons, Conredge Holloway, and Bill Symons .

Jason is the mascot for the Toronto Argonauts, replacing the previous mascot, Bounce, in 2005, who in turn replaced Scully, in 2003.