WINNIPEG – Alexandre Gagne figures his Montreal Alouettes might gain new fans in Sunday’s Grey Cup against the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

The special-teams captain doesn’t think Winnipeg Blue Bomber fans at sold-out Princess Auto Stadium will cheer for the green-and-white Riders — it’s just not in their DNA.

“I just can’t see it because I don’t think it’s something that’s possible. They were born to hate the Riders,” Gagne said this week.

“It’s just passed on every generation, so I hope that the Blue Bombers are going to be cheering for us. It’s still going to be a blue team that’s going to be winning the Grey Cup, so I feel that that’s maybe what they’re going to be cheering for.”

The backup linebacker from St. Hubert, Que., entered the CFL in 2017 and played three seasons with the Rou

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