#The Northern Storm

[8pxl]

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[brentwoodsask]

The year is 1970. The fledgling Brentwood Storm of the Canadian Football League open their inaugural season against another expansion team, the Ravenport Acadians, located in Ravenport, New Brunswick.

But let's rewind three years to 1967. The year previous, the Saskatchewan Roughriders had won their first Grey Cup and while the entire province celebrated, there were those in Brentwood who felt as though it was so far away. Peter Wong along with Jonathon Bitterman approached the chiefs of the Starchild Cree Nation and the Lonetree Dakota First Nation. The idea was to bring the CFL to Brentwood, but not requesting the Riders play in Brentwood once or twice a season, but to create a brand new team.

With Wong and Bitterman, along with Aaron Deschaumbeau of the Starchild Cree Nation and Eric Halter of the Lonetree Dakota Nation, a business group was started, launching an exploration to gauge interest. At the time, Brentwood had become tied with Regina as the second largest city in Saskatchewan, hovering around 110,000 people.

This fledgling business group gained some national attention, which drew interest from another business group in Ravenport, New Brunswick. Soon, a second group to bring the CFL to the Maritimes had begun. Stadiums were built in both Brentwood and Ravenport. Finally, the Canadian Football League began meetings with these two groups.

On January 17, 1969, both Brentwood and Ravenport were awarded CFL teams. The bets began pouring in that neither team would survive five years. In their first season, Brentwood had a record of 3-13 while Ravenport had a record of 4-12. The very next season, however, both teams managed to make the playoffs with respectable 8-8 records each.

In 1972, Brentwood changed their name from the Brentwood Storm to the Northern Storm. This change was spurred on by the belief that Brentwood was the north. Within five years of this change, tour packages from other northern cities across Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Northern Ontario were set up with a CFL game in Brentwood as a very attractive package. The Storm and the Acadians became a CFL rivalry, as the home opener with the Storm was always against Ravenport, and the Labour Day Classic always had the Northern Storm in Ravenport.

Brentwood and Ravenport both touted themselves as the third French Canadian teams in the CFL along with the Montreal Alouettes. A small provincial rivalry had begun between the Storm and the Riders. Ravenport, being a border city that sat right on the Canada-U.S. border, used this to their advantage advertising that it was the only professional football in the North East of the New England States, attracting fans from the State of Maine. The Storm were the most northern professional football team in the entire world.

In 1989, The Northern Storm Sports Group, who by this time added a WHL team to their roster of properties, announced the completion of a domed stadium with a retractable roof. Up until this point, playing in October and November in Brentwood had become a roll of the dice to see how the weather would co-operate. On one hand, it became the place where tough players wanted to test their metal. On the other, there was the fear of frostbitten players and fans.

To open the 1990 CFL season, the Northern Storm hosted the Acadians in their brand new domed stadium. The roof was open for this first game, but by seasons end, the enclosed space was perfect for this northern team.

In 2021 bothe the Storm and the Acadians celebrated 50 years in the Canadian Football League. After a pandemic cut season in 2020 that saw no football at all since in Second World War, the Storm and the Acadians put the pedal to the metal when it came to celebrations. By the end of the season, the Storm and the Acadians met in the Grey Cup, the third time the two teams had met in the CFL Championship with the Storm walking away with a 25-24 victory.

[ostdrossel]

The sky giving us a treat tonight - have you gone outside and tried to get a glimpse of the Aurora borealis? I love it when things like that happen. (And the iPhone is doing quite a good job too!)

[floridagrowngirl]

Tornado touchdown, Northern Colorado, 2015

[spiritofthemeadow]

ig - afternoondreams

[alithographica]

I live in a major light pollution center and also it’s cloudy and I’m seething

[sirmanmister]

Hey guys!! I’m pretty sure the majority of you are from mainland America so you don’t have the opportunity to see the northern lights, like, ever. Tonight you can!! Possibly. There’s a pretty severe geomagnetic storm going on and it’ll be hitting pretty darn south and a whole crap ton of people that have never seen northern lights, might be able to see them!!

I highly encourage everyone in the red/yellow lines to try to take a look tonight! I grew up with northern lights literally in my backyard and they’re just such a pleasant sight to see. According to the weather network it’ll go down as far as Alabama!

[dduane]

Hmm... not impossible that we might get some auroral activity tonight.

[elixir]

Geomagnetic storm(northern lights) captured on camera in Charlottesville, Virginia — 19.09.23 Photo by MrJackdog

[lizardlicks]

My fav pics of the aurora last night 🤩

[tracobuttons]

Got to witness the northern lights this far south in the U.K. and take some pics on my phone!

This is a dream come true!

[katy-l-wood]

It was just BARELY visible to the naked eye, but even a three second exposure with my iPhone was enough to capture the green that shot across the sky for about fifteen minutes!!!!! Here’s hoping for another round. I’ll have some better pictures from my good camera once I get home too.

[leicadiary]

[knithacker]

Nikita Jane Garner's photo is my favorite of all I've seen so far! 🐑🔮

Follow her adventures at @NikitaJGarner (Twitter) and @NikitaJaneGarner (Instagram).

📷 Credit: Nikita Jane Garner 🌍 Location: Durham, England ℹ️ Source: https://bit.ly/3JVAp7J

[spiritofthemeadow]

ig - afternoondreams

[chasingrainbowsforever]

Best Astronomy Photos ~ BBC News

Photo taken by Mikkel Beiter, who stood and observed the sea’s waves rolling onto sand, turning it into a reflective surface.  When clouds emerged from behind the nearby mountains, he was able to capture a winning image of the teal aurora borealis curving across the night sky in Stokksnes, Iceland.