Pro football is all about winning and losing, so it was strange to see the Saskatchewan Roughriders not do everything they could to win a CFL game Friday against the reviled Winnipeg Blue Bombers .

Winnipeg won 17-16 because the Roughriders treated it like a meaningless exhibition game inside rainy Princess Auto Stadium, dropping their record to 12-5 while stubbornly assessing numerous players who likely won’t see action during the playoffs.

“Mad,” said Roughriders head coach Corey Mace when asked by reporters postgame about his team. “We came in here to win a football game. We want to win every week.”

A missed 49-yard field goal by inconsistent, veteran kicker Brett Lauther could have provided winning points for the Roughriders, even though the team’s insistence on playing third-stri

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