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Like a lot of people, Andrew Scheer likes to brag a bit about his family, and not just his own five kids.

The federal Conservative leader also likes to mention his brother-in-law, Jon Ryan, has had a pretty good career as a professional football player, including a Super Bowl ring to prove it.

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Ryan, the younger brother of Scheer’s wife, Jill, played 10 seasons for the Seattle Seahawks, including the NFL team’s memorable Super Bowl victory in 2014 (and the heartbreaking Super Bowl loss the following year).

“He was there for the amazing win and the crushing loss,” Scheer told me before Saturday’s B.C. Lions game against his brother-in-law’s new team, the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

This puts Scheer in a difficult spot as he campaigns for B.C. votes before this fall’s election, but one he’s accustomed to.

In 2004, when Scheer was first elected to the House of Commons in Saskatchewan, Ryan was starting out his own career as a punter for the hated Winnipeg Blue Bombers.