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The Lenkov brothers — Peter and Jeffrey — live in California, but have never forgotten their Montreal roots.

That’s why they want to buy the Alouettes and have been negotiating with the CFL and commissioner Randy Ambrosie.

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The brothers grew up in Chomedey, Laval, before their careers took them south of the border. Peter, 55, is a Hollywood producer/writer behind such hit TV series as 24, CSI: New York, Hawaii Five-0 and MacGyver, while Jeffrey, 54, is a Los Angeles-based lawyer. The brothers attended Western Laval High School before Peter studied film at Concordia University and Jeffrey went to McGill.

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They were also both big Alouettes fans and their parents were season-ticket holders.

“The fact that we went out of town for careers doesn’t take away from the fact that we’re Montrealers at heart,” Jeffrey said in a phone interview Monday from his L.A. office, where he has long had a 1970s Alouettes helmet on his credenza. “We don’t want to own the team just to own a team. There’s a lot better dollar investments than that.”