After going to the Grey Cup every year since 1997, Roughrider fan Brian Clark didn’t have a ticket to this year’s game — at least, not until he befriended a Bombers fan.

Before his stroke of luck, though, Clark had driven more than 17 hours to get from his home state in Missouri up to Winnipeg for what he was hoping would be his 29th Grey Cup game.

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Feeling “wiped out” after the journey, he asked the front desk person at his hotel where to “get a beverage or three.”

That’s how Clark ended up in Torque Brewing, right by Winnipeg’s airport,

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