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Winnipeg is cold place, right? It seems like the kind of place where you spend five months of the year bundled up in layers. Well not if you’re Winnipeg Blue Bombers fan Chris Matthew.
Matthew, 62, vowed 18 years ago not to wear long pants until the Bombers won another Grey Cup championship. The title drought had already stretched to 10 years at that point and he would spend nearly two decades shivering in shorts in the Winnipeg winters. (He made exceptions for funerals.)
Matthew’s viral fame earned him a trip to Calgary for yesterday’s Grey Cup game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.