Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach Corey Mace hates Gatorade showers, so you know his players will certainly douse him if they win Sunday’s 112th Grey Cup game against the Montreal Alouettes.

Yet for a moment during his CFL team’s playoff game Saturday against the B.C. Lions, it looked like Mace was trying to avoid that wet and sticky possibility. He deployed a kick-the-field-goal strategy that likely wouldn’t work 999 out of 1,000 times.

It miraculously worked for the Roughriders.

Mace’s unorthodox decision somehow set up a 74-yard touchdown drive that quarterback Trevor Harris completed by tossing a short, God Centre-approved pass to Tommy Nield with 11 seconds remaining to defeat B.C. 24-21 , win the West final and advance to the Grey Cup game — Saskatchewan’s first championship

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