Over the years, Winnipeg sports fans have grown accustomed to trash-talking the fine people of Saskatchewan at playoff time.
Familiarity, as they say, breeds all manner of contempt. And who could be more familiar than our potash-mining, canola-farming, bunny-hug-clad brothers and sisters to the west?
For the first time in decades, playoff season doesn't have anything to do with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. It involves the Jets and the California club formerly known as the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.