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Rodgers, over and out.

Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers will not be visiting Mosaic Stadium in August for an NFL pre-season game against Eddy Pineiro and the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders.

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The news — non-news, actually — became official Friday afternoon, when negotiations officially concluded without the consummation of a deal.

“I’m disappointed,” Regina Mayor Michael Fougere said. “We all wanted to have an NFL exhibition game here.

“We have the best stadium in Canada and the wonderful opportunity to showcase our city and our stadium to North America and the world. Anytime you can do that, that’s important.

“That’s why we built the stadium — to have major events that would take place … not just the Riders’ games, but other events that would attract attention and all that to our city.”

The story did create some negative attention for the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

CJME-CKOM talk-show host John Gormley reported Tuesday that the CFL team was lukewarm, to put it mildly, toward the prospect of a NFL game being played on the Green and White’s home turf.