We like to say football is the No. 1 team game of them all, that it takes 12-man units in all three phases of the game to produce a CFL winner.

Occasionally, though, one or two individuals rise like cream to the top, the difference between the sour taste of defeat and the sweetness of victory.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are coming off a game like that.

Without Trey Vaval and Willie Jefferson, the Bombers would be on a four-game slide and lugging a losing record, along with a plane full of self doubt, into Calgary this weekend.

The slight kick returner and towering defensive end were the long and the short of Friday’s 40-31 win over Toronto, Vaval with two return touchdowns of 90-plus yards, Jefferson with a performance that left fans, the Argos O-line and statisticians alike buzzing.

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