When Redha Kramdi, Joey Corcoran and Kevens Clercius were drafted by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, there’s one thing they didn’t have on their bingo cards: Playing a playoff game in their home town of Montreal.

“When I got here I didn’t even know crossover was a thing,” Clercius was saying on Wednesday.

That’s certainly not something the receiver would have learned at the University of Connecticut.

The CFL’s unique rule, allowing a fourth-place team in one division to claim the third playoff spot in the other, will pit the Bombers against the Alouettes in the East semifinal in Montreal on Saturday.

“It’s great to go home and have my mom in the stands,” Corcoran, also a receiver, said. “But I’m going there to win. I want to kick ass.”

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