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Colour the Calgary Stampeders green.

(No, not that particular shade, Rider Nation. Stand down.)

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The Stamps, like any responsible corporate citizen, have eco-friendly priorities. They practise their environmental manners.

But that is changing.

One day every single season, the Stamps are going to try to slap the saplings out of the well-meaning mitts of do-gooders.

The Ottawa RedBlacks, you see, are introducing a promotion.

For every touchdown they register at TD Place, they promise to plant a tree – kind of a saw-off (sorry) for the logs their on-site lumberjacks carve up.

Charleston Hughes gets a charge out of this latest news.

“Oh, man,” says the Stamps’ resident sack-master, laughing. “I guess they’re tired of chopping wood, huh?”

It figures that Hughes & Co., who happen to be in the nation’s capital Friday for the RedBlacks’ home-opener, would like to embark on a tradition of their own – tools down.