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Zach Collaros was Christmas shopping at the mall on Tuesday, on a relatively balmy day in Southern Ontario.

“Picking up an Elsa doll for one of our nieces,” the quarterback said over the phone.

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Collaros may have been far away from frozen Winnipeg’s minus-20C temperature, but this town’s football team wasn’t far from his mind.

Fresh off a Grey Cup victory with the Blue Bombers – he re-watched the bulk of the win over Hamilton just the other day – the 31-year-old will be a free agent in February.

And if you snoop around the CFL at all, you’ll be hard-pressed to find so-called insiders who believe Collaros will re-sign with the Bombers.

To some, it’s all but a done deal he’ll return to Toronto, who dealt him to Winnipeg at the trade deadline. After all, his wife Nicole is from the area, and the two have a home there.

Not so fast, he says.

“Somehow this narrative that’s got pushed around, that no matter what happens we want to be back in Toronto – I don’t know how that got started,” Collaros said. “That’s pretty funny to me when people call me to tell me they read this or saw this somewhere. If you know me and how I am, I want to be in the best situation possible. I don’t really care where it’s at… I just want to play good football.”