They’ve gone through the front door as the top dog in the West and they’ve done it through the back door as the division’s underdog.

This time, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers will try to reach the Grey Cup through the treacherous tunnel of the crossover playoff spot.

It’s a route fraught with booby traps and littered with the corpses of wanna-be heroes of the past.

A dozen teams have tried to navigate it since the passageway was created in 1996, but not a single one has emerged from the other end: Seven got buried in the East semifinal, the other five in the final.

It’s not like most of the games are close, either.

The average margin of defeat in those seven semifinals is nearly 21 points.

The five teams that escaped the semi lost by an average of nearly 17 the following week.

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