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The cold “it’s just business” side of pro football smacked Chris Milo in the face a month ago, so all he could do was hope it would do the same to someone else and give him another opportunity elsewhere.

That someone else became Delbert Alvarado, and that elsewhere became Ottawa, where the Redblacks eventually made one move that might impact others on the Canadian Football League team’s roster.

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“It wasn’t easy being on the couch and watching your ex-teammates go to practice every day,” Milo said about being dropped by the Saskatchewan Roughriders on July 6. “That was tough. It was tough mentally.

“As soon as I got released, this was the first phone call I made, and I knew this was where I wanted to be, and hopefully they could find a spot for me, and sure enough they did.”

Alvarado made 11 of 14 field-goal attempts in the Redblacks’ first five games, but his 34-yard overtime winner against the Calgary Stampeders on July 24 followed misses on a convert and another field-goal attempt from 32 yards that could have clinched victory in the fourth quarter.