Talk of the Town on a New Name for Edmonton Football

Talk of the Town on a New Name for Edmonton Football

Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent

The Edmonton CFL football team is going to change its team name.

This change was made for various reasons and after a number of years of consultation with members of the Inuit community as well as the team’s sponsors.

For now and until a new name is selected, the football team will be known as the Edmonton Football Team or EE Football Team.

When I asked citizens from Vegreville and surrounding areas what they thought the name should be changed to, I had various replies to my question.

Debbie Uskiw suggested the name should be Edmonton Eagles because the logo already has the two E’s on it and if they changed it to this name, it would save them a lot of work. “Also if you look at the symbol, it does kind of look like it has feathers on it. Also, eagles like to fly high so this symbol might encourage them to do well. These are my two intuition reasons why I would choose Edmonton Eagles for the new name,” Debbie said.

Vegreville, Don Harfield created the name, The Edmonton Extraordinaires.

Then Ernest Rosychuk who lives in Two Hills said a good name would be the Edmonton Football Team.

Myron Hayduk said he would choose the name The Edmonton Cossacks because the Cossacks are people who are proud of their heritage and they are happy to advertise it.

Donna Harfield said she feels the name should be changed to The Edmonton Echoes because an echo is something that goes forward and then it comes back to you. “An echo reverberates; it is like the passing in a football game where the players go back and forth,” Donna explained.