That was a big win for us. Not many people picked us to win. We were able to handle their (Roughriders') press.

For those of us in it, we're probably not as surprised as some other people are. We've seen this coming for a while. This has been a work in progress for the last 5 to 6 years.

Watch us burn rubber, baby.

I remember them coming to our place (in 2003) and beating us in a close game. You saw them go up and us go down. It helps us knowing if they can do it we can do it.

Gayle Saylor helped us in many ways and kept some of us from falling off the scaffold. No one fell off. We had a deal. If you fell, you didn't get to work any more.

Basically the stores make it possible for us to do what we do here. We couldn't do everything we do without the stores.