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Upon further reflection, Eric Rogers could understand everyone’s concern after he was smacked last week in Montreal and left the game with a real pain in the neck.

“I saw it on the plane and it looked bad,” admitted the Calgary Stampeders’ wide receiver, who for the first time this week saw practice duty with the squad on Friday.

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“I’m pretty lucky that all that it is I froze up a little and there are no post-symptoms. My head hit the ground, so it was probably just shock. That was no fun watching it and people were scared, watching back home. I’ve never had anything like that. Even my mom, she goes ‘I thought you were coming back anyway because you always get back in the game. You didn’t come back in so I was a little worried.’

“Yeah, it looked bad,” he repeated. “I remembered everything from what happened. The only thing I remembered was freezing up and my fingers kind of locking, but other than that I was fine. Neck was sore, just like any other game, but no headaches or anything like that.”