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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS 49.8 Intersection piece about Chris Matthew, a retired high school teacher who, six days before the 2001 Grey Cup - when the Bombers were heavily favoured to beat the Calgary Stampeders - made an offhand remark in a bar that he was going to wear shorts (it was a cold November night) until the Bombers won the Cup, thinking they would win it all the following Sunday. Here we are, 6,100-plus days later and Chris, who retired from teaching seven years ago, is still wearing shorts, everyday, year-round, everywhere he goes. At this point he figures even if the Bombers win the cup one day, he'll throw on a pair of pants for one day then go right back to shorts, he's so used to it. Portraits of Chris Matthew outside his home in his shorts and Bomber jersey. He has one pair of black pants he wears to funerals and a kilt that he wears to weddings. Dave Sanderson story. SEPT 24,2018