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It might go down as the most expensive Canadian Football League penalty call in history.
When the Toronto Argonauts' Martese Jackson ran back a kickoff for a touchdown against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the second quarter on Thursday night, Karen Kuldys of Winnipeg was in line to win $1 million.
It was all part of the Safeway/Sobeys $1,000,000 Touchdown To Win contest where if any two kickoffs are returned for touchdowns in a CFL game a lucky fan would win the money.
"My heart just sank and I thought — oh my God how close could I get to one million dollars," Kuldys said. "You got to be kidding me. My stomach is in knots just thinking about it right now."
She was thrilled to learn she had won a $25,000 entertainment system as a part of the same contest but when her husband clued in to what was going on, they were all heartbroken.
"I'm kind of stunned," Karen said. "I didn't really understand what was happening to begin with. But my husband said if it wasn't for that penalty we would have won one million dollars, I couldn't believe it." "One bad call away from one million dollars," she said.
"I'm not a gambler by any means. I buy 649 tickets. This is as close as I've ever come to winning something like this."
Both Karen andher husband Stan say the first thing they would have done was given a lot of the million dollars to their daughter so that she could look after her one-year-old daughter.
"First thing I said to Stan was that Michelle could stay home with the baby," Karen said. "Yesterday she said mom I'm pretty emotional, it'll be hard to go back to work."
In two weeks, Michelle returns to work at Superstore after a year of maternity leave.
"The daughter wouldn't have to go to work to take care of her one-year-old," Stan said. "She said she'd rather go on welfare before taking her daughter to daycare."
Karen and Stan also said they'd use the money they would have won to pay off their mortgage.
The Blue Bombers went on to defeat the Argos 33-25.
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