Hjorth Road Park was in contention for happiest place on earth Thursday afternoon.

The B.C. Lions were raucous and rollicking through practice at the Surrey field. There was an especially boisterous uproar from the defence when back-to-back Nathan Rourke passes were picked off during drills.

You can appreciate these being happy times in Lions Land. B.C. (8-7) heads into the their annual Gravy Bowl game with the Calgary Stampeders (8-6) on Saturday (4 p.m.) at B.C. Place on a three-game winning streak.

A win clinches the Lions a playoff spot and the team is expecting a crowd in the 30,000 range.

There’s still a chance the Lions could host the West Division semifinal game, depending on how their final three regular season games play out and how things go for the Stampeders and Winnipeg

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