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Sean Brennan did not understand just how much he should have appreciated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ 1990 Grey Cup championship.

They had, after all, just earned their third CFL title in seven years and he was not old enough to understand the drought of 20 years in the ’60s and ’70s.

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Little did he know he was in for 29 years of heart break.

He and his wife Joanne are in Calgary this weekend praying for some relief from the football gods and that the Bombers end the longest championship drought in the nine-team league when they take on the East Division champion Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

“The win in ’90 it felt like ‘Of course we won,’ ” said Brennan.

Over the years, however, that hubris turned to humility. He was in Toronto in 1992 with his future wife to watch as Doug Flutie and the Calgary Stampeders stomped the Bombers 24-10.

The frustration grew in 2001 when the Bombers, led by quarterback Khari Jones, rolled to the Grey Cup with a 14-4 season but fell 27-19 to the Stampeders who scraped into the playoffs with an 8-10 record.