Courtesy Winnipeg Free Press:

It is a night of final auditions for some and the possible beginning of long careers for others.

But for Kevin Glenn and some of his veteran Winnipeg Blue Bombers, their final pre-season tune-up against the Montreal Alouettes is simply a chance to break up the tedium of training camp.

“Just to get back out on the field is a good thing,” said the Bombers’ quarterback. “Once you go through these two weeks of camp, it’s kinda boring when you continue to go against the same defence. I’m tired of talking to Barrin Simpson across the ball. Maybe (tonight) I’ll get to shout some words out to (former Bomber linebacker-turned-Alouette) Corey Jenkins. It’s more fun when you get to play against another opponent than playing against your defence every day for two-a-days.

“And getting back out on the field is going to be exciting because the last time I was out on the field, everybody knows I was injured.”

Oh yeah, there is that.

Bomber fans need not be reminded — but we’ll proceed to do so anyway — that Glenn was in civvies in the Bombers’ last meaningful contest, missing last November’s Grey Cup loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders with a broken bone in his left arm. And so, after not dressing in last week’s pre-season game in Hamilton, this will be No. 5’s first test of his wing under enemy fire.

“I’m kinda eager (to test it out), but at the same time, the arm’s healed,” Glenn said. “All you can do now is go out and play football. It’s one of those things where you can’t worry about that kind of stuff. You can’t go out and play on the fence about whether you’re going to hurt yourself again. You just go out and play and let happen what happens.”

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