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It’s a story that couldn’t have been scripted any better.

Quentin and Samantha Ebertz, Eskimos’ season ticket holders for over 10 years, were announced as the “picture perfect winners” of the record-breaking 50-50 jackpot of $435,919.50 Tuesday afternoon by team president and CEO Len Rhodes.

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“We have a really good book that’s been written through the Eskimos and to us this is not the final chapter, this is just the next chapter,” Quentin Ebertz said.

Quentin Ebertz, who works in sales, and his wife, who is a stay-at-home mom with their two-year-old son, became engaged on the Eskimos field in September 2011 during the Labour Day Rematch game against the Calgary Stampeders.

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Football has always been a part of their lives together.

“We kind of grew our relationship through football; we were on a flag football team together,” said Samantha Ebertz, who added they started going to Eskimos games together even before they were dating.

The jackpot prize, which Rhodes said he would round up to the nearest dollar, broke the Canadian Football League record Friday night during a game against the Ottawa Redblacks. The total started the game at $82,060, carrying over the unclaimed prize from the previous game June 30.

The couple bought 10 tickets for $20, a ritual they follow every game, Quentin Ebertz said, including buying popcorn and heading down to their seats in Section J.

It was only the next morning when Quentin Ebertz was watching the news that he checked the tickets and discovered they’d won — but still had to look back 10 or 15 times and wake up his wife to verify the news.

“It’s still hard to fathom the amount of numbers in the total; it’s crazy,” he said.

The football lovers said they are still deciding what to do with the money, but they do want to pay off some debt and also save a little money for fun.