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The Alouettes game against the Tiger-Cats on Friday night was so ugly, it was enough to make an onion cry.

It was so bad I wanted to ask for my money back — and I wasn’t even there.

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This is what the once wild and woolly Canadian Football League has come to: games so boring, they make a Deflate-gate hearing look exciting.

Until Friday, my bad-game champ was a Super Bowl Sunday tussle between the Canadiens and the Carolina Hurricanes. Carolina won it, if memory serves, with all of 11 shots on goal. It was so boring I wanted to hurl myself onto the ice from press-box level.

Friday night’s CFL game was worse. If you have the stomach and you happened to record it, review the last minute before the first half. That featured Montreal GM/head coach Jim Popp throwing a challenge flag because he thought a Ticat had stuck out his leg in an attempt to tackle Als quarterback Rakeem Cato.

First, Popp couldn’t get the attention of an official. He walked out onto the field. He screamed. Finally, he threw his hat. When he did get someone’s attention, there followed a lengthy discussion before (wait for it) Popp drew a five-yard delay-of-game penalty — his third of the season — because the play could not be challenged.