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Before we get started, we acknowledge it might be easier to name the people who aren’t interested in buying the B.C. Lions than the cast of thousands who are connected to the team’s sale.

This story, after all, has been going on longer than 60 Minutes.

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A couple years ago, the estimable Lowell Ullrich went though his personal archives and found the first public mention of David Braley selling the CFL club came in 2005. Mark Woodall, the insurance man who has long held an interest in the Lions, was first vetted as a possible owner by then-commissioner Mark Cohon, who left the job five years ago.

Braley, himself, was quoted in a story that ran under the headline: “B.C. Lions for sale, owner David Braley says team ‘has to be sold.’”

“I am 75 years of age,” Braley said. “I don’t want to be here at 95 owning the franchise.”

That was almost three years ago.

Still, as much as the Lions’ sale has become this province’s never-ending story, the most recent new/old development is noteworthy even if it’s unclear where it might lead.