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It’s hilarious that of all the high school football fields in Alberta to choose to use for a week of practice after losing 60-1 to the Calgary Stampeders, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats selected the one offered by Ernest Manning High School.

The Griffins were 0-6 last year. They scored 20 points and gave up 202.

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The 0-5 Tiger-Cats, who come up the QEII for Friday’s game against the 5-0 Edmonton Eskimos, have scored 90 points and given up 201.

How many points will the Hamilton defence give up on their two-game road trip to Alberta? Will Kent Austin be fired if Hamilton gets eviscerated two weeks in a row?

How many times does a horse end up being the storyline of a football game?

Poor Quick Six, the Calgary touchdown horse that once bowled over CTV host Al McCann on the sideline, made so many TD celebration runs that the SPCA must have been preparing to take action.

If it were a few years ago, there’d be concern whether the Edmonton fire truck that circled the field had enough gas to handle a Hamilton game Friday. Instead, the focus will be on Edmonton’s new Gatlin gun that fires mini-footballs into the stands when the Eskimos score.