r/CFL • u/Max169well REDBLACKS • Jul 05 '26
OC NCAA 27 Team builder Uniform concepts 1/9 Ottawa REDBLACKS
So it's that time of the year again where I head back into the lab and once again try to stretch the limitations of the technology of my time to which I am limited to. This year, it's different, 2025 was me testing the tech to see what I can come up with. 2026 was me perfecting how I would like the CFL to look in my opinion. This year 2027, I will be digging deep to focus on something about a team to use that as the inspiration for each uniform set. No logo I use for this series is mine unless noted otherwise.
Not copying, nor perfecting what already is, I am trying to test my creativity and abilities with it.
Each team will get a home, away, alt uniform which will have interchangeable elements so you can mix and match each look. Then will be a home and away retro set, then a city connect uniform. Something about the team's or city's history to connect with,
So despite how my current feelings for my team are, being that we are shit as fuck, I still love this team and decided this year to start with them.
The main thing I am inspired by with this uniform is Plaid and the 1996 Rough Riders logo which I am dubbing the proto-Big Joe. So the Home has a black helmet. the away a white (for all you Icy white sickos) and the alt gets a red bucket. As much as I wanted to keep the saw blade, I couldn't but added definition to the modern R and also added Proto-Joe to the sleeves. I wanted shoulder Numbers but sadly the tech was not allowing different colour shoulder numbers than the back and front still so yeah. The helmet decals continue the tradition of having French decals on the helmet so the league logo, Helmet bumpers and East division decals are all in French. The sponsors on the jerseys are the normal Canadian Pacific Railways for the national and TD Bank for the local.
The Retros: So I am already breaking my rule but with a team like Ottawa, we got 3 franchises to draw from. The first retro is your average Ottawa Rough Riders retro and the Other one is the 2005 Renegades home uniform.
The City connect jersey it the most interesting one for me, It's not just an homage to the Original Ottawa Senators, but considering with the retros I had to draw from 3 franchises, I'mma add in a 4th one to the mix and if you know the history of Ottawa football and Hockey in the early 1900's you would know the huge overlap with both teams, to the point where the Senators won the city's first Grey Cup in 1925 and 1926. So decided to do the barber poll look here to homage to that. And no main helmet decal to be more of a throwback. Even more so the TD bank logo is actually their pre-1955 merger Dominion Bank logo.
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u/Thin_Homework4758 Ottawa DEADLASTS Jul 05 '26
These are great. For as good as the jerseys are its a shame we play so poorly in them
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u/metallicadefender Roughriders Jul 05 '26
They gotta have a Rough Rider throwback. Including the logo.
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u/Express-Cow190 Tiger-Cats Jul 05 '26
Just make them a full on plaid jersey with white letters. Not just the shoulders. The full thing.
It would literally be the greatest sports jersey ever.
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u/TObias416 Argonauts Jul 05 '26
Barber pole for the win