Bombers fan will pay you $5 to take his tickets

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Take his tickets, please.

A Winnipeg Blue Bombers, um, fan, is offering up is pair of seats to Saturday’s game against the Ottawa Redblacks for the princely sum of nothing.

To sweeten the pot a little, he’s willing to throw in a fiver.

“I still feel as though I’m completely ripping you off with this offer,” reads the ad posted on Kijiji.

He goes to recommend several ways to spend the $5 and perhaps the $40.75 you’d be saving by not buying the tickets at the box office, such as over-priced beer, a 50-50 ticket, a mouldy hot-dog or a Bomber T-shirt or jersey, which he said come in handy as smocks when painting your house.

The seats are in Section 211, Row 25, Seats 1 & 2 but he stops short of delivering them. You’ll have to pick them, and the $5, up from his place.

As for what you can expect at the game, the “fan” said what you’ll see on the field will likely resemble what you can find at a local elementary school playground as well as penalty flags galore (they’re not left-overs from the AC/DC concert).

You may even be able to sneak in a quick nap.

“Even if you over-sleep, you’ll eventually wake up to a chorus of boo’s when our kicker misses one of his converts,” the ad said.

And this might not be the last free tickets you could pick up, he said.

“With the ice-cold Grey Cup ticket sales, it’s possible (Bombers sales reps will) be giving away championship tickets as if they were 7-Eleven free Slurpee coupons,” he said.