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Organizers of Calgary’s Grey Cup are locked in a tough ground game to reach the end zone for a sellout.

With six weeks to go before the Nov. 24 CFL championship clash, plenty of McMahon Stadium seats remain unsold.

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There’s some public speculation the ticket sales will fall 3,000 to 4,000 short of the 36,000-seat Grey Cup game capacity, “but we think we’ll go further as people get more excited,” said Mike Franco, chairman of the 2019 Grey Cup Festival.

“We won’t coast into it, we’re going to work at it . . . as an organizing committee, we expect to sell out.”

Franco said he didn’t want to reveal how many seats are unsold “because that gets into a death watch” mindset.

Some local football fans have complained — amid a slumping economy — about what they see as the high price of game tickets, which went on sale May 7. Tickets start at $119 in the top four corners of the stadium and rise to $419 for the most expensive seats.