Eric Rogers will be in Miami, rehabbing but part of the San Francisco 49ers’ travelling contingent anyway, soaking up rays on the Sun Life Stadium sidelines come Sunday afternoon.

“Our game’s pretty early out on the east coast (1 p.m.),’’ reckons the acrobatic wideout, Bo Levi Mitchell’s favourite target a year ago. “What time’s the Grey Cup, again? Starts at 4, right?

“So I’ll be able to watch it. For sure I’ll tune in. Wouldn’t miss it.”

Brett Jones, either. His New York Giants are playing in the Mistake by the Lake, Cleveland, Ohio, at FirstEnergy Stadium, locking horns with the Browns.

“(The Grey Cup) will be on later so hopefully I can catch the end of it,’’ says the former Calgary Stampeders all-Canadian centre. “Definitely I’ll be following along on social media.

“I wish them luck. Not that they need any from me. They’ve got a great team. Again.”

For the two most illustrious Calgary Stampeders’ alumni now plying their trade down south, it’s been a tough year.

Rogers has been sidelined by a torn ACL since training camp, his first as a 49er. Now in his second season, Jones suffered a calf muscle strain on his first series of his first start for the Giants on Nov. 15 at East Rutherford, N.J., against the Cincinnati Bengals.

For both, their current employers are naturally the focus of attention, but there’ll be eyes half-cocked to the north, towards Toronto’s BMO Field this Sunday.

Back in late November 2014, Eric Rogers was just beginning to display the pass-catching brilliance that would in 2015 explode into 87-catch/1,448-yard/all-CFL season and land him in Tony Bennett’s favourite town by the Bay, amidst much fanfare.

Jones had won the CFL Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman Award only a few days earlier and anchored the O-line. He would sign with the Giants in the off-season.

“That Grey Cup game in Vancouver, my mom and my auntie, who’d made the trip up, had forgotten their field passes,’’ remembers Rogers. “They left them in the hotel.

“After the game, I couldn’t find them right away; was looking for them in the stands.

“But they had no passes. So I ran over, jumped the wall and walked them on the field so they could be a part of it.”

Receiver Eric Rogers celebrates the Stamps’ 2014 Grey Cup victory (Photo by Canadian Press/Paul Chiasson)

Jones, too, will keep that afternoon locked among his cameo-keepsakes.

“The highlight of my career so far,’’ he says, “and one of the coolest experiences of my life.”

The two men may have left for greener pastures but the ties they forged here remain strong.

Jones keeps in touch with fellow Bo Levi bodyguard Shane Bergman, running backs coach Marc Mueller and O-line coach Pat Del Monaco.

Rogers too interacts with his old teammates, largely via Twitter.

“And I still Face Time with Frank (Beltre) and Kamar (Jorden). Bo I still talk to. Quay I still talk to. That new corner(back) they have, Osagie Odiase, he’s from my area. We still train together.

“So I talk to him.

“You want to stay in touch with those guys.”

Back in 2014, the Stamps went a sparkling 17-3 en route to a Grey Cup title. On Sunday, the chance is there to go that even better and finish 17-2-1.

“They’ve had a good year?’’ grunts Jones. “No kidding.

“The big thing in Calgary is that the faces may change but expectations always stay the same.

“When a guy gets an opportunity to step up, it’s not just for himself. There’s a bigger goal in mind. With Huff before and now Dave, everything is set out, no surprises.

“It’s a special place.

“A special thing they’ve got going there.”

Centre Brett Jones during a game in 2014 (Photo by David Moll)

Since the departure of both Jones and Rogers, a change in on-field personnel, at head coach and defensive coordinator hasn’t slowed the Stampeder Express one iota.

“I’ve seen a handful of games,’’ says Rogers. “They’ve been on a roll all year, made it look real … easy.

“But that’s because they put in the work.

“Dave (Dickenson)’s a great coach. Just seeing how he ran our meetings (as offensive coordinator), you knew he was going to be a big success, as well.

“They gave him a trial run before, letting him address the whole team. He was obviously ready for it.

“Bo, I think, at the beginning of the year was spreading the ball around, trying to figure out how he’d attack defences. Then he settled in to two or three main receivers. Quay is always one of those guys. K.J. Bakari Grant. DaVaris Daniels started lighting it up when he got in there.

“Then there’s (Anthony) Parker and Lemar (Durant), who’s great after the catch.

“Once they all settled in to a role, the offence took off to a whole other level.”

“We had something very unique there,’’ says the Weyburn-born Jones, Calgary’s second-round draft in 2013 Canadian college draft, wistfully. “A lot of times in pro sport you don’t get that close to other guys on teams.

“In the CFL, it’s different. The camaraderie the guys have there is different. You’re truly playing more for the love the game.

“It’s a cool thing the CFL has going. The atmosphere is great. The scale is different so the interaction with the fans, the other guys in the room, with everybody, is closer.

“And it all came together, for us, for the city, with that Grey Cup victory.”

The Stampeders hoist the Grey Cup in 2014 (Photo by Canadian Press/Nathan Denette)

Clearly, you can take the boy out of Saskatchewan (and even stick him in the Big Apple) but you can never completely take Saskatchewan out of the boy …

Brett Jones and Eric Rogers may be gone, but they have not forgotten.

That allegiance to the Horse remains strong.

“You know, to me, 2016 seems very reminiscent of us in 2014,’’ reckons Rogers. “After the first week, starting to roll, guys getting hurt and other guys stepping up and taking their chance.

“We had first place wrapped up with a few games to go then, too, and they tried out different guys, which is when I started to play.

“That year, like this year, the Stamps kinda ran away with it, then had a great West final, like they just played against BC.

“The Grey Cup game was very close, we got out early, but it was tense at the end.

“Very tense.

“I don’t see it being that way this time.”

So, how’s about going out on a limb and predicting a scoreline?

“I’ll say … 37-21,’’ Rogers replies after a moment’s hesitation. “I might add a score late, around the three-minute warning.

“But it won’t change the outcome.”

No need to ask identify the team he’s picking to win, though, right?

“No,’’ he laughs. “That I think you already know.”