Reaching a Grey Cup game in your home city is difficult – over the last 11 years, just one team has pulled it off.

For the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, that’s the carrot dangling down the CFL playoff road.

Some don’t even want to look at it.

Brady Oliveira can almost taste it.

“Nothing more that I want,” the Winnipeg-born running back was saying as he faced a media scrum on his home field on Tuesday. “Then to come back here, play in my back yard with all my boys, all my teammates – we all want that. We want to be back here for the big game at the end of the year.

“We understand it’s going to take a lot.”

For starters, it’ll take a win in Montreal on Saturday against a rejuvenated Alouettes squad that won its last five meaningful games of the regular season.

If they can pull that off, it’s

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