Scott Milanovich walked slowly across the field, his head looking downwards, his spirit seemingly broken.

Broken by his own lack of belief. Broken by an unwillingness to gamble in any way — or give his Hamilton Tiger-Cats a chance to move on to the Grey Cup.

And broken by one decision really that prevented his Ticats from playing in the signature game of the Canadian Football League.

Hamilton will not win the Grey Cup again this season — it hasn’t since 1999 — and this time some of the way in which the Ticats lost the Eastern final, 19-16 to the visiting Montreal Alouettes, was brought on by a head coach who should know better.

A very good head coach playing not to lose instead of playing to win.

This is the CFL. This is a league built on going for it. Milanovich has the legendary Bo

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