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“A main reason we like the CFL is the ability to get to know the players and team officials, etc. I know I can send Riders CEO Craig Reynolds an email and get a response.

“I have a collection of about 200 8×10 photos of myself with a large collection of CFL folks, from legends like Ron Lancaster and Roger Aldag, two of the nicest folks a guy could hope to meet.

“Dave Ridgway pretty much accidently came into our lives and my wife Maura and I were thrilled to attend his Hall of Fame induction in 2003. He remains a very close friend with whom I communicate with regularly.”

Lori and Robin Cosh don’t drive 1,214 kilometres per game. They “only” travel 500 kilemetres.

They live in Maklin, which is just over the Alberta border and your correspondent, on the occasion of the Roughriders centennial visited them.

Hubby gave Lori a bus for a 10th wedding anniversary present, the better to transport a whole bunch of season ticket holders from the area.

“We’re in our 17th year having season tickets and driving 500 kilometres to ever game. When we started we needed to take two diaper bags. Now we take two cases of beer,” she said of her four kids, girls Taylor and Laine who they pick up in Saskatoon and sons Keifer and Colin who live in Macklin.

The Cosh family ended up with their seats from old Taylor Field.

“Well, not just out seats,” she said. “The whole row!

“We’ve got 40 seats. We’ve kept our six seats and will make a bench out of them. Robin said when we have grandkids and the Riders have an away game, we can roll the bench up to the TV and the grandkids can watch the game on the seats their parents grew op on.”