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Perhaps, he suggests, golf is the best comparison.

Which makes his latest display of precision the equivalent of a good swing. A very, very good swing.

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“Like a really tight approach,” says Rob Maver. “Say you’re on a par four and, on the second shot, you stick it pretty close to the pin.”

Yes, just like golf.

But in front of a national-television audience; in front of a beer-fuelled gallery of 27,000; in front of a couple dozen of your best (red-clad and shoulder-padded) buddies, all of whom are counting on you.

Yes, just like golf.

But with a handful of hostiles only steps away, every one of them dying to rattle you, disrupt you, spoil your night. To slap aside your shot, if possible.

It’s enough to make a guy soil his Sansabelts.

But this is no country club.

And Maver is no hacker.

On this occasion – Friday at McMahon Stadium, fourth quarter of the Calgary Stampeders’ 36-22 triumph – his stroke is pure.