2002 Edmonton Grey Cup Festival Edmonton Eskimos CFL pin # 1

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2002 Edmonton Grey Cup Festival Edmonton Eskimos CFL pin # 1. This official pin has no back stamp. It is in like new condition.
The
Edmonton Football Team
or
EE Football Team
(formerly known as the
Edmonton Eskimos
) is a professional
Canadian football
team based in
Edmonton
,
Alberta
, competing in the
West Division
of the
Canadian Football League
(CFL). The team plays their home games at
The Brick Field at Commonwealth Stadium
and is the third-youngest franchise in the CFL. The team was founded in 1949 as the Eskimos, although there were clubs with the name Edmonton Eskimos as early as 1895. The EE is arguably the most successful CFL franchise of the modern era (since 1954), having won the league's
Grey Cup
championship fourteen times (including a
three-peat
between 1954 and 1956 and an unmatched five consecutive wins between 1978 and 1982), most recently in
2015
. This places Edmonton second overall to the
Toronto Argonauts
, who have won seventeen Grey Cups (with seven of those since 1954).
The EE holds a North American professional sports record by qualifying for the playoffs for 34 consecutive years between
1972
and
2005
. Edmonton has had the most regular season division championships in the CFL's modern era with 21, with its most recent coming in
2015
. The team has a
rivalry
with the
Calgary Stampeders
and is one of the three community owned teams currently operating in the CFL.
The team's name has drawn controversy and criticism, as the term "
Eskimo
" is considered in Canada to be a racial slur against the
Inuit
. On July 16, 2020, it was reported that the club will be dropping the 'Eskimos' name.
On July 21, the team officially retired the name, and temporarily began using "Edmonton Football Team" and "EE Football Team" until a new name is decided.
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