Fine, I guess I'm Blue Jays fan

I spent the weekend doing all sorts of sports-watching.

My mother flew in from B.C. like she does every fall, ostensibly to do her holiday shopping for Manitoba relatives. However, it always seems to coincide with as many Winnipeg Jets and Blue Bombers home games as possible. This past weekend, there just happened to be two Jets and one Bombers game, and so there just happened to be my sports-watching-loving mother.

I generally reap the benefits of my mother’s sports obsession by being invited to games, and so I jump on the bandwagons hard when she’s here. Not that I don’t love our local teams—I’m a former Blue Bombers season ticket holder and y’all have seen me wax poetic about bleeding blue and gold—but I prefer to watch things in person rather than on TV.

So that’s why it was unusual to see me