Days removed from hoisting the big silver trohpy in Winnipeg, Corey Mace still smiles when he hears the words head coach of the Grey Cup champion Saskatchewan Roughriders.

During the locker clean-out day, part celebration, part farewell, the Riders’ bench boss is soaking in every last moment of a season that rewrote the script in Riderville.

“No. that’ll never get old,” Mace said with a grin when I opened our chat with the line he’s heard hundreds of times. “It’s so cool to be able to say that… with this team and what that means here.”

It’s a journey that began 720 days ago -- a number that sounds even longer when Mace says it aloud.

“That sounds like a long time,” he laughed. “It sure doesn’t feel like it’s been that long. But when you sit back and think about each day… that’s a lot o

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