Letterman dons Bombers tuque during visit to Late Night

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Wearing a Winnipeg Blue Bombers tuque is no stupid human trick.

Legendary late-night TV talk show host David Letterman knows which team is worthy of his support — the squad that has ruled the land the last two CFL seasons — and he showed it Tuesday night in downtown Manhattan.

He was rocking a blue tuque with a logo of the 2019 Grey Cup-winning Bombers as he departed 30 Rockefeller Plaza after his guest appearance on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers.

The Bombers said Wednesday the club has no idea how the 74-year-old comedian and retired talk-show host got the cosy headwear or why he chose it for the special occasion.

“We’d love to know how he got it,” said Bombers spokesman Darren Cameron. “It’s great to see such a television icon show his support of the Blue and Gold, though he’ll now have to upgrade his 2019 Grey Cup Champions tuque to a back-to-back champions tuque.”

A few wise folks on Twitter noted it’s not the first time Letterman has been tied to the local CFL squad. In 1994 on his Late Show with David Letterman on CBS, his announcer introduced him “as the voice of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers” in jest.

On Tuesday, it was a return to the old stomping grounds for Letterman, who helped celebrate Late Night’s 40th anniversary with Meyers.

Letterman’s first guest on the show on Feb. 1, 1982, was Bill Murray, while musician Paul Shaffer of Thunder Bay, Ont., led the house band. Letterman stayed with Late Night until 1993 when he moved to the CBS network. His successors were Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Fallon and Meyers.

— Staff