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VANCOUVER — There is no crying in football.

Well, hardly any.

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That is one reason Wally Buono is taking the high road in the wake of the fairly obvious — to all but those in the CFL’s command centre — fumble that wasn’t: the Andrew Harris “oops” near his own goal-line in the dying seconds that might have handed the B.C. Lions the game in Winnipeg this past weekend.

Another reason the Lions’ boss is biting his tongue is the CFL is at a strangely sensitive time in its periodically perilous existence right now and a league lifer like Buono isn’t going to pile on when squawking isn’t going to do his football team or the CFL any good.

“My thing is, I’ve been in the CFL 44 years. You gotta stop thinking about yourself and start thinking about the league,” Buono said Tuesday.

“I can’t speak for anybody else. My philosophy is sometimes you gotta be a team player. It’s not always just about you. As an organization, we’ve tried to do that.”