The Argonauts realized 10-year attendance highs during the regular-season, and a resurgence occurred within the city of Toronto as Boatmen returned to glory, becoming the city-wide leader in per-game attendance.

Jason (, Iásōn ) was an ancient Greek mythological hero who was famous for his role as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece.

Jason assembled a great group of heroes, known as the Argonauts after their ship, the Argo.

The Argonauts departed, losing their bearings and landing again at the same spot that night.

Vince McMahon's original plan was to purchase the Canadian Football League ( after the CFL initially approached him about purchasing the Toronto Argonauts ), while NBC was moving ahead at the time with Time Warner to create a football league of their own.

According to legend, Jason and the Argonauts launched their search for the Golden Fleece from the Magnesia Peninsula.

" Upon the Mother depend the winds, the ocean, the whole earth beneath the snowy seat of Olympus ; whenever she leaves the mountains and climbs to the great vault of heaven, Zeus himself, the son of Cronus, makes way, and all the other immortal gods likewise make way for the dread goddess ," the seer Mopsus tells Jason in Argonautica ; Jason climbed to the sanctuary high on Mount Dindymon to offer sacrifice and libations to placate the goddess, so that the Argonauts might continue on their way.

Jason, Medea, and the Argonauts fled Colchis and began their return journey to Thessaly.

The number of Argonauts varies, but usually totals between 40 and 55 ; traditional versions of the story place their number at 50.

* Theseus being on the list is inconsistent with accounts of his life usually including him encountering Medea at an early stage of his adventures, yet many years after the Argonauts completed their adventure ( Medea, by that time, was not only abandoned by Jason, but also bore a child from Aegeus ).

* Argus, Phrontis, Melas and Cytissorus, sons of Phrixus and Chalciope, joined the crew only after being rescued by the Argonauts: the four had been stranded on a desert island not far from Colchis, from where they initially sailed with an intent to reach their father's homeland.

* In comics, outside of a comic book adaptation of the film Jason and the Argonauts published by Dell Comics in 1963 as part of their Movie Classics series, there were 2 series that featured The Argonauts alongside Jason.

British Rock group XTC recorded a song entitled Jason and the Argonauts, to be found on their album English Settlement ( 1982 ).

*" Jason and the Argonauts ", a song by XTC, from their album English Settlement

Thankful for their help, Phineas told the Argonauts how to pass the Symplegades.

Phineus then revealed to the Argonauts the path their journey would take and informed them how to pass the Symplegades safely, thus filling the same role for Jason that Circe did for Odysseus in the Odyssey.

These sons grew wings like their father and joined the Argonauts in the quest for the golden fleece.

Sidero hid in a temple to Hera but Pelias killed her anyway, causing Hera's undying hatred of Pelias – and her glorious patronage of Jason and the Argonauts in their long quest for the Golden Fleece.

After the return of the Argonauts, Acastus's sisters were seduced by Medea to cut their father Pelias in pieces and boil them.

The Argonauts, on their return from Colchis, came to his island, and were hospitably received.

When the Colchians, in their pursuit of the Argonauts, likewise arrived in Drepane, and demanded that Jason's lover Medea should be delivered up to them, Alcinous declared that if she was still a virgin she should be restored to them, but if she was already the wife of Jason, he would protect her and her husband against the Colchians.

The Colchians were obliged, by the contrivance of Arete, to depart without their princess, and the Argonauts continued their voyage homeward, after they had received expensive presents from Alcinous.

When the Argonauts were sailing past the Sirens, he was the only one to not resist the charm of their singing and swim off to them.

The Argonauts had a horrible 2001 season.

In an interview in 1984, Jason claimed to have changed his name as a homage to his childhood fictional hero Jason, in Jason and the Argonauts, because when he decided to enter into a career in acting, he was told that there was already an actor called David White.

The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius appears to follow a different version of the same myth: in the poem, when the Argonauts arrive near Lake Tritonis, Euphemus accepts the clod of earth from Triton who first introduces himself as Eurypylus but later reveals his true divine identity.

Polydeuces beat him in a boxing match when the Argonauts passed through Bithynia.

Their death was said to be caused by Heracles on Tenos in revenge for when they convinced the Argonauts to leave him behind as he searched for Hylas.

The city was said to have been founded by Pelasgians from Thessaly, according to tradition at the coming of the Argonauts ; later it received many colonies from Miletus, allegedly in 756 BC, but its importance began only after the Peloponnesian War, when the decay of Athens and Miletus set in.

Triton assumed his shape when he encountered the Argonauts in Libya.

Flutie played for the Stampeders until 1996, when he signed with the Toronto Argonauts, leading them to back-to-back Grey Cup victories in 1996 and 1997.

They kept the trophy until 1914 when they were defeated by the Argonauts, who made the trophy available to subsequent champions.

Edmonton's championship run came to an end in 1983 when they failed to reach the final ; the Argonauts defeated the BC Lions to win the championship.

Apollonius wrote that the Argonauts sighted Hyperborea, when they sailed through Eridanos.

Its first usage in the Canadian game was when the Toronto Argonauts flew to Winnipeg for an exhibition game.

It is widely believed by historians that when Apollonius Rhodius was writing about Jason and the Argonauts and their legendary journey to Colchis, Kutaisi / Aia was the final destination of the Argonauts and the residence of King Aeëtes.

He entertained Jason when he consulted the Delphic Oracle and later joined the Argonauts.

According to Herodotus, Emona was founded by Jason, when he travelled through the country with the Argonauts, and named by him, in honour of his Thessalian homeland.

Clemons would go on to win two more Grey Cups as a player when Doug Flutie led Argonauts won back-to-back titles during the 1996 & 1997 seasons.

The stadium's attendance record was set on November 24, 1991, when 51, 985 fans watched the Toronto Argonauts defeat the Calgary Stampeders for the Grey Cup.

Crouch's opportunity to play quarterback at the professional level finally came when he signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League on February 15, 2006 as a quarterback.

It was not until 1921 that a Western team was finally allowed to compete in the Grey Cup game, when the Edmonton Eskimos lost 23 – 0 to the Toronto Argonauts.

* ' Ierne ' refers to Ireland by various ancient Greek writers and many scholars have the opinion that in the poem when the Argonauts passes Neson Iernida, that is, the Island Iernis, they are referring to the island of Ireland, thus referring to Ireland longer ago than 1000 BC.

The year of founding is usually given as 1791, when a group began meeting under the name " the Argonauts ," or as 1794, the year of the roast pig dinner at which the club, known first as " the Pig Club " was formally founded.

With the score twisted in the Argos ' favour ( 33-30 Toronto ) by the misruling of the on-field officials, and then the Argos also getting a first down when Edmonton clearly stopped the Argos ' third-down gamble, the first down for Toronto allowed the Argonauts to take time off the clock, and to also kick a field goal to make the score 36-30 Toronto.