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“It should be fun, but I’m not really too focused on that. We’re trying to get another win here and that’s what matters to us.”

Crapigna joined the Roughriders late last season via a trade with the Calgary Stampeders. In three games with the 2015 Roughriders, he went 4-for-4 on placement attempts. Factor in his 24-for-28 performance this season and he is 28-for-32 — an 87.5-per-cent accuracy rate — as a CFLer.

“Personally, I feel like I’ve had a great season to date,” Crapigna said. “I’m just trying to continue that. Realistically, for me it’s always about the next kick. The game-winning kicks and all that stuff, those are in the past now. I’ve just got to look forward to the future and that’s just making the next kick.”

The refrain was much the same on Sept. 4, when Crapigna missed two of three attempts in a 28-25 loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Taylor Field. Afterwards, he emphasized the need to expunge the kicks from his memory bank and look ahead.

“For me, it’s about having a short memory, just like a quarterback throwing an interception,” Crapigna said. “If you miss a kick, you can’t get that kick back. No matter how much you think about it, you’re never going to get that kick back.”

The Sept. 4 game proved to be an aberration. As it turned out, half of his misses in the CFL took place on one afternoon.

Such is life as a kicker. The Roughriders have employed one Hall of Fame kicker (Dave Ridgway) and another (Paul McCallum) who should ultimately be enshrined. Despite their impressive resumes, there were occasional days that Ridgway and McCallum wanted to forget.