Despite not having tickets, and having to watch their team lose on the final play, Terry Selinger and Leslie Genoway drove for 10 hours through a blizzard from Regina just to be in Calgary for the Grey Cup.
Taking in the big game at Flames Central with fellow Regina native Julien Johnson, 21, Selinger, 31, and Genoway, 26, said they wouldn’t have missed being part of Grey Cup celebrations for the world.
“If it was in Montreal or somewhere in the east we would have flown,” said Selinger.
“We just wanted to come for the party.”
With Calgary’s streets turned into a sea of green over the last few days, filled with Roughriders fans from across the country, Selinger said the city felt almost like home.
“I can walk around the room and probably point out five people I know from home,” he said.
“This feels like a hometown bar,” added Genoway.
A lifelong Roughriders fan, Selinger said the reason Saskatchewanites are so firmly behind their boys in green is simple.
“We don’t have anything else there,” he said.
“There’s no hockey, it’s our only professional sport so you support them.”
dave.dormer@sunmedia.ca
