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The voice on the other end of the line remains strong, well into its 10th decade, the words tinged with a perspective only time can bring.

The pandemic is a frightening prospect for so many people, seniors at the top of that list, but football legend Bud Grant isn’t one of them.

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“No,” Grant told me from his Minnesota home on Monday. “I mean, I’m 93 years old. I’ve been through the polio epidemic … I was in the service during the War. All of those things have happened in my life, so I’m not quite as paranoid as some people might be.

“It’s something we’ve just got to live through.”

One of the all-time great coaches the game has seen, on both sides of the border, Grant shrugs off the COVID-19 crisis like he shrugged off the cold while guiding the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to four Grey Cup championships in five years, from 1958-62.

Seems his kids and grandkids worry about him more than he does.

“They buy into a lot of this political propaganda that’s going on,” Grant said. “And I don’t blame the politicians. That’s their job. They’re trying to protect themselves and trying to protect people. So whether you agree or disagree, it is what it is. You go along with the laws and what the rules are.”