When A Loss is Not A Loss
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The Saskatchewan Roughriders may have lost their home opener with the Stony Mountain Blue Bombers 45-27, but they won their fans with a spirited display to show they are not as far from contending as perhaps one might think.
The Bombers were overwhelmingly favored, especially with uncertainty about the status of Trevor Harris who suffered a needless hip pointer on the last play of the Riders 17-13 win over the Edmonton Elk in the season opener.
Harris and the Riders were looking at a short week with their home opener against the Bombers and Harris was kept out, partly out of caution, partly out of a desire to make Winnipeg spend as much time as possible preparing for something that might or might not happen.