The “S” on the designer Obsidian T-shirt also stood for Somnolent Scribe.

Or, if you prefer, Sedentary Saturday.

That was not a departure from Thursday, Friday or, for that matter, the entirety of a Saskatchewan Roughriders bye week.

These days of triumph (snicker) consisted of being taken for a walk by the dog and ambitiously watching TV — most notably, TSN’s telecasts of Week 10 action in the CFL.

Even with the beloved Roughriders on a respite, I was reminded many times over of the great gift that is Canadian professional football.

On a cardio-free weekend, the games left me breathless.

For starters, the B.C. Lions outlasted the host Hamilton Tiger-Cats 41-38 on Thursday. With Hamilton-born NBA star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on hand as the guest of honour, the game was fittingly decided by a three-pointer — Sean Whyte’s 19-yard field goal in overtime.

Very quickly, Hamilton versus B.C. was labelled “game of the year” by some pundits.

As it turned out, there was plenty of competition for that honour … on the same weekend!

The Edmonton Esks edged the Montreal Alouettes 23-22 on Friday night. Cody Fajardo, an Alouette for the previous two seasons, threw a 15-yard, game-winning touchdown pass to Kaion Julien-Grant with 15 seconds left.

Just six days after dropping a potential game-winning touchdown pass, Julien-Grant scored two key majors on Friday. His mother was in the stands at Percival Molson Memorial Stadium.

“You couldn’t have written a better script,” Fajardo, the Roughriders’ starting quarterback from 2019 to 2022, said afterwards.

Then came Saturday and another “game of the year” candidate.

Despite trailing 22-1 in the first quarter, the Ottawa REDBLACKS emerged with a 46-42 victory over the Toronto Argonauts at BMO Field.

Dru Brown’s fifth touchdown pass of the game was an 11-yard game winner to Justin Hardy in the final minute.

Toronto’s Nick Arbuckle, who threw three TD passes of his own, was a Trevor Harris-like 32-for-38.

After three classics in a row, TSN treated us to more gems as we awaited Saturday’s Week 10 finale between the Calgary Stampeders and the visiting Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

The break between Saturday’s games included TSN’s countdown of the top 10 Grey Cup games.

OK, 1976 hurt.

So did 2009. Ow.

But then we were all reminded of No. 1 on the list — the 1989 thriller between the Roughriders and Tiger-Cats.

Two angles were shown of a 75-yard touchdown bomb from Kent Austin to Jeff Fairholm.

Fairholm made the grab even though Hamilton had been called for pass interference.

Tiger-Cats fans were still celebrating a Derrick McAdoo touchdown when Austin and Fairholm collaborated on a one-play, 75-yard touchdown, er, drive.

Hamilton tied the game in the final minute thanks to a spectacular twisting TD grab by Tony Champion, who courageously remained in the game — and remained uncoverable — after suffering broken ribs.

Saskatchewan’s spirit would not be broken.

TSN’s flashback showed a perfect pass from Austin to Ray Elgaard for a 20-yard gain on second-and-10. (That play was celebrated in a recent column about a picturesque pass from Harris to Samuel Emilus.)

Austin followed up with back-to-back completions to Mark Guy, who produced gains of 18 and 10 yards to put Saskatchewan in field-goal range.

(Guy and Champion, coincidentally enough, are both graduates of the University of Tennessee at Martin.)

The top-10 treat concluded with the unforgettable image of Dave Ridgway’s 35-yard, Cup-winning field goal, which split the uprights with two seconds remaining.

I still get a kick out of The Kick.

I saw it in person, from the 500 level of Toronto’s SkyDome (now Rogers Centre). How many times has the climactic moment of the 77th Grey Cup Game been replayed over the past 13,042 days?

It doesn’t matter. I still get goose bumps, every time.

“You couldn’t have written a better script,” as spoken by Fajardo, also applied to the manner in which the programming schedule unfolded on Saturday.

At 5 p.m., the familiar face of TSN football analyst Glen Suitor appeared on the screen.

The former Roughriders safety was the holder for The Kick in 1989.

In the same game, Suitor registered the Roughriders’ only interception. He also caught a desperation Tiger-Cats punt and ran out of bounds to triumphantly conclude the 1989 Grey Cup Game.

Suitor was seated in the McMahon Stadium broadcast booth, alongside Dustin Nielson, when the TSN play-by-play announcer referred to “an incredible Week 10 in the CFL.”

The Nielson ratings were accurate.

“This might be the best week of CFL football all season,” Kate Beirness told her colleagues on the TSN panel as the Bombers-Stampeders showdown loomed.

“This is old-school CFL.”

Ditto for the Stampeders’ 28-27 victory over the Blue Bombers — a contest that was decided on a last-second, 40-yard field goal by Rene Paredes.

Just 61 seconds earlier, Sergio Castillo had put Winnipeg ahead by kicking a 63-yarder that tied Paul McCallum for the longest field goal in CFL history. McCallum’s long-distance effort took place on Oct. 27, 2001, when he provided all of Saskatchewan’s points in a 12-3 victory over Edmonton at Taylor Field.

You have to go a long way back to find a weekend quite like the one CFL fans just experienced.

“The combined margins of victory of nine points — three, one, four, one — got me thinking as to whether this is a league record for narrow wins,” Saskatoon-based historian Keith Willoughby e-mailed me on Sunday.

“You have to go back to 2009 to find an equally close set of four games.”

The appetite is certainly whetted for Week 11, which includes Saturday’s collision of division leaders. The Roughriders (7-1) and Tiger-Cats (6-3) are to collide on Saturday (1 p.m., Mosaic Stadium).

Yes, dear reader, it could get even better.