{"id":283037,"date":"2025-11-14T17:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283037\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T17:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:52:12","slug":"someone-else-would-appreciate-this-bombers-ticket-holder-sells-grey-cup-seats-to-riders-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283037\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Someone else would appreciate this\u2019: Bombers ticket holder sells Grey Cup seats to Riders fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A devoted Winnipeg Blue Bombers fan will be stepping aside from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjme.com\/2025\/11\/13\/riders-ajou-ajou-ready-if-needed-for-112th-grey-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grey Cup<\/a> game this Sunday as the Saskatchewan Roughriders head into the championship against the Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n<p>Mark MacKinnon has held season tickets since 2006, and said there were doubts throughout the season the Blue Bombers would make the Grey Cup even with Winnipeg hosting the game.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it would have been more of a long shot, but there was hope that maybe they could pull it together for one more year before their aging core went off,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon said the \u201cfatigue\u201d from the Blue Bombers season is what pushed him to sell his tickets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just need to take a break from this,\u201d MacKinnon said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of things that didn\u2019t go as well as many would hope for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now MacKinnon\u2019s seats in Winnipeg will be green with Roughrider fans as they cheer Saskatchewan on to a possible victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think someone else would appreciate this more than me,\u201d MacKinnon said.<\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon said \u201cit wouldn\u2019t be horrible\u201d to watch the Roughriders compete for the Grey Cup, but said he had no interest in watching the game itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019d be very similar to anyone like watching your rival,\u201d he said,<\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon recalled a similar situation where he bought Grey Cup tickets to see the Blue Bombers in Regina from Roughrider fans.<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg fan said he\u2019s unsure about whether he will sit and watch the Grey Cup final this weekend, and might keep up with the NFL this Sunday instead.<\/p>\n<p>The football fan will still keep tabs on the Grey Cup and predict the game could go into overtime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a coin flip as to who\u2019s going to win,\u201d he said. \u201cThere might be a team that\u2019s favored, but when it\u2019s the winner takes all, any bad team can be a good team on any game date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 112th Grey Cup kicks off at 5 p.m. Saskatchewan time on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 with files from 650 CKOM\u2019s Libby Gray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A devoted Winnipeg Blue Bombers fan will be stepping aside from the Grey Cup game this Sunday as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-283037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}