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Article: Free Press partners with Bombers
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- October 25, 2006
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face=+Bold; Newspaper acquires naming rights for Alumni Gold Club Loungeface=-Bold;
THE Winnipeg Free Press has been intimately involved with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers for 76 years, reporting on the Canadian Football League team's fortunes -- high or low -- in a tradition that dates back to the franchise's first season in 1930 when they were known as the Winnipegs.
On Tuesday, the two city institutions formed another alliance when the Free Press announced it has bought the naming rights to the Alumni Gold Club Lounge on the east side of Canad Inns Stadium, a gathering place for the team's former players and about 1,200 Gold Club season ticket-holders.
"Really, there's very few others than ...