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Football season may be over, but not for one Mississauga football fan.

Just in time for Christmas, Kelly Hardy has made a detailed gingerbread replica of Ottawa Redblacks’ TD Place Stadium to show her love for Canadian football.

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Every part of the creation is edible, except for the picture of Redblacks receiver Greg Ellingson, which towers above the green, sugar-coated field on a gingerbread scoreboard.

The goalposts are made of Popeye candy sticks. Red and black M&Ms scatter the gingerbread stands to serve as seats. TD Place’s distinctive wooden veil is replicated with pretzel sticks that wrap around one of the stands. A football – a peanut M&M decorated in icing – sits at the side of the field.

The stadium took about 20 hours to make.

Hardy said this is actually the seventh stadium she’s built. The idea first came about 10 years ago.

“I was watching a gingerbread competition on TV and thought, ‘Oh, I should build something,’ and I thought houses were a little cliché,” Hardy said.