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The Canadian Football League went for two on Thursday — awarding the 2020 Grey Cup to Regina and the 2021 game to Hamilton — and in so doing, scored points for creativity and practicality.

CFL said it believes the awarding of two Grey Cups at one time had never been done. And it may well never be done, again.

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“We were highly suspicious that (commissioner Randy Ambrosie) was going to pull a trick like this,” said Ticats owner Bob Young. “But we were quite genuine, as was Randy, that it was his pleasure to announce a double win.

“The discussion that Randy sort of had given away, that this was a possibility to us, he said by announcing two Grey Cups he now gets a year ahead. So this time next year, he gets to work with whoever has the winning bid for 2022, and the bidder on 2022 now has an extra year to plan their Grey Cup.

“That was the attraction to Randy and he mentioned that in passing, so we were suspicious that he might do something like this and we were certainly thrilled when he did it.”