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With the CFL’s new CBA finally ratified, that makes today an appropriate time to re-introduce Duane Vienneau.

You may remember Vienneau as the executive director of the 2018 Edmonton Grey Cup organizing committee.

During the last six weeks he quietly moved into a new job with the league with the impressive new title of Chief Grey Cup & Events Officer.

The CFL has yet to announced it but it’s not an insignificant hire.

Vienneau’s job in Edmonton was to direct the most ballistic Grey Cup ever.

Now his job is to help Calgary smash Edmonton’s success to smithereens and then go on to Regina and set a new standard and then head to Hamilton and … well, if he succeeds, the league should be on a much better financial footing three years from now for the next CBA, not that such thoughts have even crossed his mind.

All Vienneau cares about is building bigger, better Grey Cups. He did it here in 2010 and he did it again in 2018.