Tom Mayenknecht: Goldeneyes debut and Whitecaps sellout offer a different spin on a big local sports weekend.

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The 112th Grey Cup last Sunday — a 25-17 win by the Saskatchewan Roughriders over the Montreal Alouettes at Princess Auto Stadium in Winnipeg — lived up to its billing as the biggest annual sports party in Canada. Article content Article content Article content

That was especially true in The ‘Peg, where the Winnipeg Football Club — a.k.a. the community-owned Blue Bombers — did its typically first-class job in hosting.

As we projected last week, an average viewership of about four million Canadians tuned in to the national telecast on CTV, TSN and RDS, with 10 million Canadians watching at least some of the celebration of three-down football.

That’s no

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