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Both Grey Cup finalists sport the same colour scheme in their uniforms.

Red, white and black make up their costume.

But it’ll be the Calgary Stampeders in their traditional red jerseys — with red helmets and black pants — come Sunday at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium (4 p.m., TSN/770 CHQR).

“Yeah, man … we get to wear our home jerseys,” said Stampeders quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell. “That’s good.

“The last time we wore our home jerseys in the Grey Cup, we won it.”

That was back in 2014 at BC Place in a 20-16 victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

And just as it was back in that championship season, the reds come out for the Stampeders because they are considered the home team as the CFL’s West Division representative at a venue hosted in a West Division city.

“It is a home game for us,” Mitchell said. “But it’s still going to feel like an away game.”

Yet somehow, wearing the traditional red seems to inspire more success — like having a McMahon Stadium feel to it.

As for choice, by CFL rules, no team is allowed to wear its alternate jersey in the Grey Cup, meaning the Stampeders black jerseys stay at home.

The Redblacks then will wear their away whites.

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