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While extolling the benefits of CFL 2.0, commissioner Randy Ambrosie turned up the flattery meter to 2,000,000.0.

Ambrosie was effusive in his praise of the Saskatchewan Roughriders when “Randy’s Road Trip” made a stop at Mosaic Stadium’s Harvard 620 Lounge on Saturday.

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The theme of his opening address revolved around the need for the CFL to think in grandiose terms. He cited the local professional football team and its loyalists as a template.

“You are the most magnificent lesson in our league,” said Ambrosie, who certainly knows his audience. “You, right here, and all of you in this province, are the lesson, because it wasn’t always this good.

“Folks, I played at Taylor Field. This is no Taylor Field.”

Ambrosie, a former CFL offensive lineman, joked that he “left an ACL and an ankle on what was then concrete at Taylor Field.”

On Saturday, he cemented his relationship with Rider Nation — while providing perspective to accompany the “Everything’s Coming Up (Amb)ros(i)es” pep talk.