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EDMONTON • Commonwealth Stadium was to be filled with thousands of spectators wishing bad luck on Delbert Alvarado on Thursday night.

Alvarado would have on his side Ottawa Redblacks teammates and staff, and in the stands his wife was to watch him play in person.

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“This will be the first time that she has actually been able to come to a football game to watch me play,” Alvarado said before the Redblacks kicked off against the Edmonton Eskimos. “She has watched it on TV, she has followed ESPN and all that kind of stuff.

“When I was with the (Dallas) Cowboys, I got to play a couple of games down there, so she has watched, but she has never actually been in the stands for one.”

Fallon Taylor has a pretty good excuse, though. She has her own career as a barrel racer, and the professional rodeo circuit keeps her on the go.

Fortunately, football and rodeo coincided in Alberta this week.

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Taylor placed second in her preliminary-round group at the Calgary Stampede, then headed to Montana and Wyoming for one-day rodeos, but went to extraordinary lengths to make it to Edmonton for the CFL game.