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WINNIPEG — On the first day of CFL Week, Randy Ambrosie decided to visit his old school. He didn’t show up with cameramen in tow. He came alone.

“East Kildonan High School,” he said.

“I’d never been back. I graduated and moved on to university and on to play in the CFL and Christina Litz said, ‘You know, Randy, you should go visit your old high school,” he said of the league’s chief marketing officer, a native of Winnipeg.

“I just walked in the door by myself with a football under my arm for the head coach and spent the afternoon being reminded how important that school was to the changing of my life.”

It was a perfect way to start the week to kick off the new CFL season, especially this new CFL season, as the event is intended to do.

If Ambrosie has his way, and early indications are that he will, it’s going to be the Year of the Kid in the CFL. And being here for the week has brought back memories of his own childhood growing up to be a Winnipeg Blue Bombers fan.