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The personal toll Andrew Harris will pay for his mistake was evident in his emotion at Monday’s news conference.

As the Blue Bombers running back noted, people are now questioning him, where before he seemed to always be the answer.

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The answer to the Bomber offence, to the need for leadership and, more far-reaching and significant, the answer to every Winnipeg kid’s question about whether dreams can come true if you want it bad enough and work hard enough.

It takes years to build a reputation, one misstep to rock its foundation.

But the man’s personal legacy aside, along with his status as one of three-down football’s great Canadians, Harris’s failed drug test and subsequent two-game suspension will have immediate football implications.

In short, do the Bombers have any chance of winning a game without him?

Probably not.

It was going to be hard enough to keep winning without starting quarterback Matt Nichols, on the shelf for who-knows-how-long with a shoulder injury.