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When Cody Fajardo finally satisfied a craving by triumphantly Hoovering a post-game corn dog, it should have been served on a measuring stick.

In a game that provided the best evidence to date that the charismatic Fajardo is a bona-fide CFL starting quarterback, he scored the winning touchdown on a last-minute five-yard run against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, who fell 24-19 to the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Thursday.

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Despite a sore right ankle, which was injured on a third-quarter sack, Fajardo outran two pursuers — Delvin Breaux Sr. and Cariel Brooks — and dove toward the north-end goal line at Mosaic Stadium.

Fajardo touched the left-side pylon with the football while tumbling out of bounds, thereby producing a fourth-quarter comeback victory for the first time in his brief, but successful, tenure as a No. 1 quarterback in the pro ranks.

“It meant a lot for me, especially with the carnival here in town,” Fajardo said in reference to the Queen City Ex. “I’m really excited to go get a corn dog, to be honest.

“I’m a big carnival and corn dog guy and I was like, ‘Hopefully the game goes well so I can get a corn dog.’

“That’s probably what gave me the will to score that touchdown — the little inspiration of a corn dog at the carnival.”

Ex-tra incentive, if you will.

Fajardo celebrated the ingestion of fair fare by posting on Twitter a photo of himself crushing a corn dog alongside the George Reed statue on Thursday night.