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Four years ago, Nic Demski and a couple of University of Manitoba Bisons teammates were sitting around dreaming up possible touchdown celebrations.

This is the kind of thing university football players do in their spare time, I suppose.

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One of them comes up with the idea of kneeling before the giant book that’s part of the U of M logo painted in the north end zone, and pretending to read it, page by page.

“Those two are going to fight about who invented it,” Demski was saying, Wednesday.

Let ’em fight about who wrote the script.

Demski is the one who’s starring in the production.

First as a Bison, then last week in the Blue Bombers’ win over Hamilton, Demski followed touchdowns with the perfect student-athlete celebration.

“It had to be that end zone,” the 25-year-old Winnipegger said, pointing out there’s not a similar logo in the south end. “As soon as I scored in this end zone, I knew I was going to do it right there and then. Just that moment. I’d kind of had it in the back of my head. The first time I scored, three weeks ago, I just ran up the stairs because the stairs were right there.