A football game — even the biggest of football games — isn’t about one or two people. This is a game that’s won or lost by teams.

Yet it’s impossible not to look at Saturday’s East Final between Hamilton and Montreal and see two primary storylines at play. Both involving the quarterbacks.

We’ll start with the guy in black and gold.

Two years ago around this time — following a playoff loss against the Alouettes in which he didn’t start and was only put into the game when it was already too late — Bo Levi Mitchell stood in front of his locker and all but said his time in Hamilton was done after one year.

“When he benched me for that playoff game, was I pissed?” he says. “Of course.”

That afternoon, the idea that he’d still be here today would’ve been a long-shot. As for the idea that he

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