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The mayors’ bet before a championship game is getting so worn that even Mayor Jim Watson calls the tradition “cheesy.”

But he went ahead and signed up for a mayor-to-mayor bet anyway with Calgary’s Naheed Nenshi, in anticipation of Sunday’s Grey Cup game.

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Nobody is going to get rich on this payoff. The loser pays three bucks per point scored to the winning city’s food bank. The loser wears the other team’s jersey to a council meeting and raises the winning city’s flag.

And there’s food involved — a meal to be named later, in sports parlance. The losing city cooks up something distinctively local for the winning mayor to enjoy.

In 2016 the two mayors had a similar bet. Nenshi had to give to an Ottawa food bank, send Watson a dozen donuts, and read a poem that Watson wrote, aloud in public.

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