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We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this breaking-news item: the Alouettes won a football game Friday night.

And, while their 25-22 victory over the Toronto Argonauts at Molson Stadium might not have been an aesthetic work of art, it ended a six-game losing streak and was the team’s first home victory in more than a calendar year.

And the Als did this despite some questionable decisions by Mike Sherman, their first-year head coach. Sherman, who’s still relatively new to the Canadian Football League, decided to punt rather than gamble on a third-and-one play in the second quarter — hardly a vote of confidence for his struggling offence.

The kick was returned 33 yards by Martese Jackson and eventually led to a Toronto touchdown.

Then in the third quarter, rather than attempt a 47-yard field goal at the east end of the stadium, where Boris Bede has struggled, Sherman had him punt. It resulted in a single when it was more important to trap the visitors deep in their own territory.