Courtesy Regina Leader Post:

Despite absorbing the extra costs of winning the 2007 Grey Cup, the Saskatchewan Roughriders could post an unprecedented seven-figure profit that will be used to keep the CFL team competitive.

“We’ve never experienced the kind of business success we’re experiencing now,” said Roughriders president/CEO Jim Hopson. “It paves the way for us to take the franchise to a long-term level of excellence.”

The Roughriders have never exceeded a million-dollar profit without the extra benefit of having the Grey Cup played in Saskatchewan, as they did when posting a $2.5-million profit in 2003, or getting a $2.8-million loan forgiven by the provincial government in 2005.

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