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“Huff sat me down and asked, ‘has your interest in the NFL changed at all?’” said the CFL’s Most Outstanding Player in 2016, whose club is already 3-0 with him leading the way.

“All I told him is that it would have to be a vast difference to even think about it, given the way the NFL felt about me. I still feel slighted when I came out of college and I love this league and I want to keep building my career and my legacy here.”

Having won one Grey Cup and pacing his club to appearances in three of the last four championship games, Mitchell’s stats put him amongst the CFL’s greats already.

In Thursday’s win he eclipsed the 20,000-yards passing mark, and his touchdown-to-interception ratio is a remarkable 121-47.

A leader in the community with various charitable endeavors and his own weekly radio show, ol’ Bo is certainly a household name in Calgary where he’s doing well to build a legacy, as he so often talks about.

It’s endearing to Calgarians to hear him speak so passionately about his time here, the city in which he lives full time, and a league that is seen by far too many as a pit stop on the way to the big show.

He epitomizes what being a Calgarian is all about, setting himself up for many years here should he continue the path he’s chosen thus far.

So far this season the shoulder and elbow issues he fought through last year haven’t bothered him, thanks to an off-season of intense scrutiny by top doctors, and rest.

Should that continue, there’s little doubt he’ll continue to tear up a league he’s dominated from Day 1.

The question will really come down to whether an NFL offer comes in he feels would give him a legitimate shot to see the field.

“As a quarterback it’s a tough position to be in because you want to show loyalty to your club and you want to encourage other guys to sign contracts because you want the best team on the field to keep these guys here,” he said of his contract quandary.

“We’ll just have to see what happens.”

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