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Some things, such as a Kristen Wiig movie, should not be watched — let alone viewed a second time.

Another case in point: Saturday’s CFL game between the Calgary Stampeders and the visiting Saskatchewan Roughriders.

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Calgary won 27-10 and, if anything, the score flattered the Roughriders. Saskatchewan’s only hope was to bore the worthy opposition into unconsciousness. As it was, the Green and White nearly sent this creaky correspondent into slumberland.

Midway through the second quarter, with the Roughriders’ punt-oriented offence working at peak inefficiency, I leaned back in a chair at Leader-Post World Headquarters and felt the eyebrows getting heavier. The chins dipped for a millisecond until — ZING! — I snapped out of the trance. I would regret doing so.

The Roughriders versus Stampeders had to be the worst sports television outside of, well, any program that features Stephen A. Smith.