How the Ottawa RedBlacks Team Name Was Really Created
1. WHO “Really” Created CFL’s Ottawa TEAM NAME?
Ottawa RedBlacks Team Name Creator Michael Pastien
June 12 It's Official! OTTAWA REDBLACKS is New Team Name
Jan 12 '13 JEFF HUNT Declares OTTAWA RED & BLACKS Name Officially CREATED by FAN
Dec 28 MOONSTAR LIMITED Covertly Trademarks OTTAWA REDBLACKS (+ Other Variations)
Dec 20 JEFF HUNT Declares TEAM Will NOT BE Called RUSH
Dec 17 Name Creation of OTTAWA RED & BLACKS by 'Hero Fan' Michael Pastien
Dec 16 No Reward TEAM NAME CAMPAIGN Gains No Yards
Nov 29 '12 OTTAWA 67s Register OTTAWA RUSH (no others) with CIPO
2. ‘Team Name Campaign Forensic Timeline’
Franchise owner Jeff Hunt always favoured a Unique Name that Generates the Iconic ‘R’ on Team Merchandise
Rumour all along is the new team name may be the reviled ‘Drug Undertone’ Ottawa ‘Rush’
NOV 29 ’12 – OTTAWA 67s Registered OTTAWA RUSH with CIPO (No Others)
No Reward “Team Name Campaign” for its ‘Professional Franchise’ yields No Yards
towards gaining a “RUSH” substitute by Dec 16th
deadline
[Jeff Hunt declared no intent to reward anyone who may create an attractive name]
No version of RedBlacks was suggested by anyone during the Team Name Campaign
No Version Registered @ CIPO along with RUSH on Nov 29
CBC.Ca/News/Canada Ottawa Rush in Contention as CFL Team Name (Dec 14)
DEC 17 – As it seems definite Ottawa’s Franchise will infamously be named Rush…
MICHAEL PASTIEN CREATED OTTAWA RED & BLACKS
Unique Name soundly markets Ottawa Red & Black Historic Colors with Vivid Hearty Contrast
DEC 18 – The Spy Who Pretentiously Came in From the Cold for a ‘Brotherly Visit’
The renegade’s chance visit with wife & kid was likely a ‘Hail Mary’ Game Plan Setup with OSEG links (covertly eavesdropping on the chat)
to coax an inspired team name…and it was then voiced that one time only, that “It’s kind of too bad the team will be named Rush…because I’d
dreamt up Ottawa Red & Blacks overnight” *If that visit hadn’t occurred, the team’s name would likely be ‘Rush’ and not what it is today.
OttawaSun.Com 2012/12/19 New Ottawa CFL Team Will Have Original Name (Dec 19)
OttawaSun.Com 2012/12/21 Ottawa CFL Team Won't Be Called Rush
DEC 28 – MOONSTAR LIMITED ‘Secretly’ TRADEMARKED REDBLACKS
(Plus Several Variations)
*Who or what exactly is ‘Moonstar Limited’ and how did its Connection to OSEG arise?
Days later, Jeff Hunt states…a unique Red & Blacks name version is likely being adopted
OttawaCtizen.Com/News Ottawa Red + Blacks Team Name Story
OttawaSun.Com 2013/01/16 Red-Blacks Name in Spotlight at Focus Group
OttawaSun.Com 2013/01/13 Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group eyes the Name Red-Blacks for New Ottawa CFL Team
"It was suggested ‘directly to me’ by a ‘fan’ at the Ottawa group's CFL party the day before the Grey Cup at Real Sports in Toronto" said Hunt.
"Red and Blacks. I said it sounded like a bit of a mouthful, so I shared it with my partners that night (NOV 24)" [Ottawa Sun Jan 16 ’13]
*Team Name Suggestion time & location Memory ‘liberally’ affected by lingering Grey Cup Festivities Punch?
Ottawa RedBlacks President Jeff Hunt Claims How Team Name Was Chosen
Why wouldn’t a franchise owner simply claim to have created a name alone?
Marketing this ‘Unique Team Name’ to the Public is Smarter by Adopting a Fan’s Suggestion
That shot could have scored if Ottawa 67s had registered the Name instead of a ‘Secret Company’
...plus done so on Nov 29
It’d be ‘rash’ publicizing a fixed script, before securing a legal contract with a ‘fan’ who has any chance of emerging;
that ‘may’ rightly expect a ‘Fair Reward’ or threaten to market an ugly ‘Million Dollar Copyright Breach PR Story’
FYI
*REDBLACKS Domain Name NOV 29/30 ’12 Registration Dates by OSEG have DUBIOUS TRUTH
OttawaRedBlacks.Ca dated 2012/11/29 & OttawaRedBlacks.Com dated 2012/11/30
*Domain Name Registration Dates Listed before Sept 17 ’13 are Not Guaranteed Authentic
*New Rules vs TM fraud 2013/09/17 *Pre ICANN Rules Domain Creation Date Alteration System [2012]
Nov 29 '12
OTTAWA 67s
Register OTTAWA
RUSH (no others)
with CIPO
Dec 16
TEAM NAME
CAMPAIGN
Gains No Yards
Dec 20 JEFF HUNT
Announces TEAM
Won't Be Called
RUSH
Dec 28 MOONSTAR
LIMITED Covertly
Trademarks
OTTAWA
REDBLACKS
3. OSEG Lansdowne-Associated LAWSUITS
(Current status of any of the conflicts is not public)
*CBC NEWS OTTAWA Fat Cats Co-Founder DUNCAN MACDONALD Illegal Procedure LAWSUIT vs OSEG & REDBLACKS
*LANSDOWNE LAWSUITS Tell STORY of Escalating Costs in UNPAID BILLS and BUSINESS FAILURE
*CBC NEWS CANADA OTTAWA - OSEG Files Legal Claims vs LANSDOWNE CONTRACTORS
JEFF HUNT “LIVING in STYLE” FEATURES
Ottawa Citizen – Life Style – Jeff Hunt
Ottawa Sun 2016/07/08 OSEG Sports Boss Jeff Hunt's Condo Suite Quite a Spot to Watch a RedBlacks Game
MEANWHILE
Owner of Tony Gabriel 1978 Jeff Russel Trophy Ron Stewart signed Rough Rider sketch I drew
Until recent years…I was a lively longtime fixture at Grey Cup Weekends!
4. “A Booster in Revitalizing Lansdowne + Returning Football to the Capital”
*Alongside CEO Roger Greenberg @ City Hall OSEG Lansdowne Expo
*Corporate $200 Sponsor for an OTTAWA 67s Christmas ’09 Charity Promotion
5. I have privately been renown as ‘Something for Everyone’ Owner of an Ace CFL Collection!
*Mostly Liquidated it (Kept a Niche Cache) while Evolving from ‘Classic Hoarder’ to ‘Minimalist’
Click CFL GREY CUP "SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE" UNIQUE VIDEO Link
YET…
I answered OSEG’s marketing survey & vanished from its contact list after the Team Name Announcement.
*Hunt & Partners eluded facing me on May 22 ’14 by not attending the Canadian Club of Ottawa Luncheon
Honouring their CEO Bernie Ashe @ the Chateau Laurier Sponsored by TD Bank (where I was longtime
CCO Events Steward) just weeks before OSEG’s inaugural TD Place Home Opening Game.
Many Have Wondered...
Why I’ve not attended a single game including the home opener or had any link with my Home CFL
Franchise…and never even cited its Unique Team Name…until Now!
A mutually likable big picture settlement of matters is discreetly reachable
Settlements Will No Doubt Be Rightly Reached, Karma Rules Forever
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