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2 unusual facts about Montreal Alouettes


The Bachelor Canada

Brad Smith was born on October 2, 1983 in Hudson, Quebec by his parents, Larry Smith, a Senator, former CFL Commissioner, and former President and CEO of the Montreal Alouettes, and his mother Leesa Smith.

Throughout his childhood, Brad had several football seasons with a variety of teams: Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts, and the Edmonton Eskimos.


1978 Kansas City Chiefs season

The 1978 Kansas City Chiefs season began with the hiring of new head coach Marv Levy, formerly of the Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes.

83rd Grey Cup

Knowing he could not compete with an NFL team, Stallions owner Jim Speros opted to cancel his franchise and used his organization and players as the basis for reactivating the dormant Montreal Alouettes franchise.

Andrew Hawkins

Although technically under contract with the CFL's Montreal Alouettes, Hawkins was permitted to compete as a contestant on Michael Irvin's football reality show 4th and Long.

Angelo Mosca

He was traded to the Ottawa Rough Riders for Hardiman Cureton on August 15, 1960, and played for the Rough Riders in 1960 and 1961 before joining the Montreal Alouettes in 1962.

Arland Bruce III

Arland Richard Bruce III (born November 23, 1977 in Olathe, Kansas) is a Canadian football wide receiver who is currently a member of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.

Carl M. Voyles

Voyles retired from football after the 1955 season to work as a sales supervisor for a Florida real estate company owned by Toronto stock broker and former Montreal Alouettes owner, Eric Cradock.

David Overstreet

A contract dispute with the Dolphins led him to sign with the Montreal Alouettes, who, under the ownership of Nelson Skalbania, tried to buy a big money winning team.

Dwaine Wilson

A graduate of Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho, he played 2 seasons for the Montreal Concordes (part of the Montreal Alouettes franchise history.) In 1984 he played 16 games and in 1985 he played 13 games.

Fixation in Canadian copyright law

In Canadian Admiral Corp. v. Rediffusion Inc., 1954 20 C.P.R. 75, the plaintiffs had purchased the exclusive right to live telecasts of football matches played by the Montreal Alouettes.

George Festeryga

A graduate of the Hamilton Tigers junior and senior program, the big and talented Festeryga joined the Montreal Alouettes in 1949.

Joe Galat

After a tour as an assistant coach in the NCAA at Yale University, Miami University, University of Kentucky and for the NFL’s New York Giants and Houston Oilers, the Painesville native was hired as Head Coach and General Manager of the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League by then owner George Allen.

Mike Maurer

In the 93rd Grey Cup against the Montreal Alouettes, which the Eskimos won by a score of 38-35 in overtime, he caught 4 passes for 41 yards substituting for fullback Mathieu Bertrand and won the Dick Suderman Trophy as the Most Valuable Canadian in the Grey Cup.

Quincy Carter

On April 4, 2006, Carter was signed by the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League to a one-year contract with an option for 2007 only to be released by the team the following month.

Ted Gerela

His brothers were also professional kickers; Roy Gerela with the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers and Metro Gerela briefly with the Montreal Alouettes (Metro is enshrined in the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame.) In 1993, his nephew Ted Gerela was drafted in the 7th round of the 1993 CFL Draft by the BC Lions as a linebacker from Rocky Mountain College.

Todd Lowber

On June 14, 2009, Lowber suffered a concussion after being hit by Chris Jennings and Doug Goldsby of the Montreal Alouettes while returning a kick in the team's first pre-season game.

Toronto Huskies

Attendance quickly dwindled and the Toronto Star published an estimate that team owners Eric Cradock (co-owner of the Montreal Alouettes football team) and Harold Shannon lost $100,000 in one season of operations.

Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831

Also killed was Charles Stone of Montreal, a former co-owner of the Canadian Football League's (CFL) Montreal Alouettes; his death occurred during the CFL's Grey Cup week in Vancouver.


see also

Gavin Walls

On February 26, 2010 Gavin was traded to the Montreal Alouettes in exchange for non-import defensive end Stan Van Sichem.

Nelson Skalbania

Skalbania tried to continue the Montreal Alouettes glory years by hiring several very expensive American football stars (Vince Ferragamo, Billy Johnson, James Scott, David Overstreet,) but his bid failed miserably, as the team was dreadful.

Terry Vaughn

In 2005, Terry Vaughn's 1113 receiving yards combined with those of his teammates (Kerry Watkins's 1364 yards, Ben Cahoon's 1067 yards, and Dave Stala's 1037 yards) as the 2005 Montreal Alouettes became only the second team in CFL history to achieve four players all having over 1000 yards receiving in the same season (the first being the 2004 Alouettes).