We know...Saturday night was ugly. Even if you didn't go 0-4 in your weekly picks (or as we call it, "taking a trip to Marty York country"), you're probably looking for a little solace after spending the last two nights having nightmares about the Argos throwing another useless pass to the flats and punting it away on third down. Luckily, there are plenty of ways to look on the bright side of life. Allow us to present a few of them, to help you get through the week:

• No matter how many stupid mistakes the Argos made on Saturday, and there were plenty, they had absolutely nothing on Wally Buono's failed attempt at cleverness yesterday afternoon. Fittingly, for a guy who routinely leaps on his high horse to accuse other teams of "embarrassing" the game, Buono wound up costing his Lions a win against the 'Riders by trying to make a mockery of the CFL's overtime format. For those who missed it, Buono's stroke of genius came with the game tied, the 'Riders having missed a field goal on their first OT possession and the Lions taking possession at the Saskatchewan 35. The normal strategy would've been to run a couple of conservative plays to move the ball forward a bit, then attempt a field goal for the win. Instead, hoping for what would've been the cheapest win of the season, Buono immediately sent out Paul McCallum to kick it through the end-zone for a game-winning rouge. Our first thought was how unsportsmanlike it was. Our second thought was that it was Paul McCallum, back at the scene of the crime, and that booting it through the end zone from back there (especially on a punt, rather than a field goal attempt) wasn't quite a sure thing. Sure enough, the 'Riders caught the punt and returned it out of the end zone, and minutes later Andy Fantuz sunk the Lions' battleship with a dramatic touchdown. Usually, Wally waits until November for this sort of meltdown, but we're sure the 'Riders aren't complaining.

• Courtesy of the latest "upset" against the Als, we now have a tie between the Als, the Argos and the Bombers for first in the East - also known as the hottest three-way action this side of whatever Spergon Wynn was involved in this weekend.

• Courtesy of the muted TV in the bar where we watched Saturday's game, we now know there's one way to spruce up even the most depressing loss - closed captioning. We'd normally suggest that whatever computerized system the CBC was using for this, it might do better just to hire someone who's actually watched a football game at some point in his life. But then, that would have deprived us of reading of the exploits of "Recchi Williams" and "Day Money Allen." It's like Chris Berman, if Chris Berman were a robot. Also, if Chris Berman were in any way even remotely entertaining.

• If nothing else, the Argos' road trip was worth it for giving Ricky (sorry, "Recchi") Williams a chance to strut around Calgary in cowboy boots and a cowboy hat. If we'd known there was even a remote chance of hanging out with Ricky at this place, we'd have been on the first flight to Cowtown.

• After playing here roughly every three weeks for most of the season, the Argos will have home games four of the next five weekends to close our the regular season. In spite of the official letters of protest already submitted by our livers, we're deeply looking forward to this.

• If nothing else works, do what the rest of us do and gaze fondly at the photo of Boatmenblog's Rusty, surrounded by a pair of cheerleaders and the Argos' unfailingly stylish in-game host, being honoured as "season ticket holder of the game" with a satellite radio. It was nice of the Argos to simulate our fourth-quarter perspective by making the photo as blurry as possible.