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You’d have had to be a fan dating back to the earliest years of the Edmonton Eskimos 70-year history to have heard of Keeper McWhinney from back in the Jackie Parker Grey Cup era.

But there’s a new Keeper McWhinney on the scene now. Jeff McWhinney has been in town for most of the past week in his new job as ‘Keeper of the Cup.’

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This Keeper McWhinney, wearing his white gloves and Canadian Football Hall of Fame blazer, made about 106 stops with the Grey Cup during the past week including Sunday’s Fan Day at Commonwealth Stadium where there was a special scene.

They Grey Cup organizing committee for the 106th Grey Cup game had special Eskimo jerseys made up for the day featuring “PARKER 91” and “McWHINNEY 93” at Fan Day Sunday at Commonwealth Stadium.

Jackie Parker Jr. and Jeff McWhinney wore the jerseys with the numbers worn by their dads when they won that first Eskimos Grey Cup in 1954.

Actually the inspiration for that came a few days earlier.