I just watched the end of the NFL game. The league’s overtime rule is bullshit: each team should get one possession, then sudden death. As it stands now, if the first team scores a touchdown on its first possession, game over. That gives too much value to the coin toss. And is not much better than the old rules.
The NFL has had 325 overtime games since the rule was adopted in 1974. The results:Both teams have had possession 235 times (72.3%).The team that has won the toss has won 169 times (52.0%).The team that has lost the toss has won 141 times (43.4%).223 games were decided by a field goal (68.6%).86 games were decided by a TD (26.5%).One game was decided by a safety (0.3%).There have been 15 ties (4.6%).
52 to 43.4 is not as bad as it seems and these stats date from 1974. The rule was amended in 2010 to require the first team to possess the ball to score a touchdown as KC did tonight. I think the main reason they keep the rule as is they want the game to end as quickly as possible within reasonable bounds of fairness. Tired football players get hurt.
I saw, hours after you asked in a thread a couple of days ago, how the Instant Pot and I are getting on. I’ve really only cooked two major meals in it: traditional pot roast with fingerling potatoes, carrots, and onions; and lemon-ginger chicken breasts. I still find it a bit intimidating, but I’m sure I’ll get more comfortable with it the more I use it. Certainly not sorry I took advantage of GoodBlack Friday pricing to acquire it.
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Coolness! One thing which cannot be pointed out enough is that cleaning is such a breeze.
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Kalakal
FWIW my guess is a contest between 2 equally horrible people.
Michael Gove has Uncle Rupes backing, has the charisma of damp lint
Liz Truss a remarkably stupid person even amongst a group of very stupid people
Rishi Sunak will fail not because of his inadequacies but because he needs to persuede a bunch of racists to vote for him
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Leto
@Steeplejack: The teams had 60 mins to determine a winner. The Chargers then had the opportunity to actually have a defensive plan that included: just tackle Kelsey. The rules aren’t bullshit, the Chargers suck at tackling. No rules will fix that. Also as Patrick II said, tired players are more prone to injury. It was a good game, it went back and forth, now we get to go to bed.
Edit: 3 non-converts in the red zone? 2 fumbles and an int? Again, self inflicted wounds. Don’t want to go to overtime? Fix your shit.
Heh. Sunak sounds more like the Prime Minister of Vulcan.
:)
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brendancalling
Up late, hitting the sack soon.
there’s a good chance Canada’s new travel advisories may mean my kid can’t come for Xmas. They’ve certainly worried his mom, and it might mean he can’t make it. I totally get where she’s coming from, and we have about a week to make a decision. But this would make two years w/o seeing family.
we’re struggling with what to do.
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Yarrow
@Kalakal: Liz Truss really is dim. Impressively so.
It’s kind of hard to imagine Gove being PM. There’s no there there.
a few days ago you posted about the most 2021 sentence:
Former US Senate candidate and first Maine resident to catch COVID Max Linn found dead in hot tub after being sued for pulling gun on former aide during cryptocurrency disagreement
Wait, there’s more! Linn was:
Jan 6 participant
“sought to buy drugs falsely touted as COVID-19 cures”
Visited Wuhan in December 2019, where he got covid
In 2018, disqualified from Maine ballot for nominating petitions “marred by fraudulent and dead-voter signatures”
after that his useless campaign signs kept “popping up at busy intersections” in New Hampshire.
@Pharniel: there’s still the possibility of a tie! It happens at least once per season. Idk, it’s the same grousing that soccer fans have with penalty kicks. You had 90 mins, plus stoppage time, plus two 10 min overtimes… the teams had plenty of time to resolve this. Let’s get this over with and move on with our lives.
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Chetan Murthy
@BlueGuitarist: Is this one of those instances where 12 different stab wounds were found in the body ? [like in Murder on the Orient Express ?]
@Yarrow: Gove is really popular with a lot of Tories. It’s one of life’s great mysteries like “Why is a raven like of writing desk?” or The Giant Rat of Sumatra. He has absolutely no redeeming characteristics, has the appearance of a newt that not even its mother could love, and the charm of a dyspeptic warthog. He is however a loyal flunkey of R Murdoch
A few months ago Gove turned up off his face at a nightclub in Aberdeen. Here god help us is a man who has a serious chance of becoming the next pm of the UK.
Viewers of a sensitive disposition may want to look away now
Andrew Yang sends me words. Words I didn’t ask for.
It’s also true that Democrats were lucky to have even 50 senators – they came within 15,000 Georgia voters of having only 49 and Mitch McConnell as speaker.
Of course, he closes asking for money. I think I’ll pass. I hope you do as well.
Cheers,
Scott.
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danielx
Note: there should be a microsoft diagnostic message that says:
Cat walked, sat or lay upon keyboard and engaged airplane mode, you’re screwed.
@Steeplejack: I’m glad I saw the first words and closed the page! I DVR games and watch in the morning and I didn’t want to know the outcome. The Chargers had plenty of chances to win!
@Kalakal: This thread was on fire last night. I only see it now, after it’s dead.
But in the interest of the public, aka the public interest, any chance to make fun of former Canadian PM Stephen Harper is required. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67J6uhXzq_o
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Another Scott
@Ramalama: A thread isn’t dead until J R in WV has commented.
Late to this thread, but I’ve been reviewing in my head the PMs since Pitt the Younger. (And yes, I know them all. Taught British history for 40 years.). Seems to me that in “awfulness,” Boris’s only competitors are Bonar Law and the Tory leader after the Napoleonic wars, whose name escapes me. (It wasn’t Castlereagh; he wasn’t PM). I mean I disagreed with the policies of many Tory PMs, but they weren’t assholes. Boris is.
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Steeplejack
I just watched the end of the NFL game. The league’s overtime rule is bullshit: each team should get one possession, then sudden death. As it stands now, if the first team scores a touchdown on its first possession, game over. That gives too much value to the coin toss. And is not much better than the old rules.
The Dangerman
Snake eyes!
ETA: This is exciting as my life gets.
Kalakal
Johnson’s toast
BBC News – Tories lose North Shropshire seat they held for nearly 200 years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-59693102
patrick II
@Steeplejack:
52 to 43.4 is not as bad as it seems and these stats date from 1974. The rule was amended in 2010 to require the first team to possess the ball to score a touchdown as KC did tonight. I think the main reason they keep the rule as is they want the game to end as quickly as possible within reasonable bounds of fairness. Tired football players get hurt.
Chetan Murthy
@Kalakal: All Hail Prime Minister Rees-Mogg!
Chetan Murthy
@Chetan Murthy: I can’t see that name, without thinking of Spinal Tap and Sir Denis.
NotMax
@Kalakal
As if things weren’t, um, Badenov for Boris.
;)
SiubhanDuinne
@Kalakal:
Just came to post that. Can’t wait to read Tony Jay’s next post!
https://news.sky.com/story/north-shropshire-lib-dems-aim-to-pile-more-pressure-on-pm-with-surprise-by-election-win-12497802
NotMax
@Chetan Murthy
Gonna party like it’s 1799!
:)
Kalakal
@NotMax: ow!
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
I saw, hours after you asked in a thread a couple of days ago, how the Instant Pot and I are getting on. I’ve really only cooked two major meals in it: traditional pot roast with fingerling potatoes, carrots, and onions; and lemon-ginger chicken breasts. I still find it a bit intimidating, but I’m sure I’ll get more comfortable with it the more I use it. Certainly not sorry I took advantage of
GoodBlack Friday pricing to acquire it.Edited. Where did that come from!?
Yarrow
Ahahahahahahaha!
Yarrow
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Coolness! One thing which cannot be pointed out enough is that cleaning is such a breeze.
Kalakal
FWIW my guess is a contest between 2 equally horrible people.
Michael Gove has Uncle Rupes backing, has the charisma of damp lint
Liz Truss a remarkably stupid person even amongst a group of very stupid people
Rishi Sunak will fail not because of his inadequacies but because he needs to persuede a bunch of racists to vote for him
Leto
@Steeplejack: The teams had 60 mins to determine a winner. The Chargers then had the opportunity to actually have a defensive plan that included: just tackle Kelsey. The rules aren’t bullshit, the Chargers suck at tackling. No rules will fix that. Also as Patrick II said, tired players are more prone to injury. It was a good game, it went back and forth, now we get to go to bed.
Edit: 3 non-converts in the red zone? 2 fumbles and an int? Again, self inflicted wounds. Don’t want to go to overtime? Fix your shit.
NotMax
@Kalakal
Heh. Sunak sounds more like the Prime Minister of Vulcan.
:)
brendancalling
Up late, hitting the sack soon.
there’s a good chance Canada’s new travel advisories may mean my kid can’t come for Xmas. They’ve certainly worried his mom, and it might mean he can’t make it. I totally get where she’s coming from, and we have about a week to make a decision. But this would make two years w/o seeing family.
we’re struggling with what to do.
Yarrow
@Kalakal: Liz Truss really is dim. Impressively so.
It’s kind of hard to imagine Gove being PM. There’s no there there.
Pharniel
@Leto:
Additionally, the TV partners would like games to end in a timely fashion.
There was a prior rule that did not have the coin flip, but instead gave the ball to the team that last held the lead.
I’m tempted to just say end it in a tie, but OT is super exciting.
BlueGuitarist
@SiubhanDuinne:
a few days ago you posted about the most 2021 sentence:
Wait, there’s more! Linn was:
Jan 6 participant
“sought to buy drugs falsely touted as COVID-19 cures”
Visited Wuhan in December 2019, where he got covid
In 2018, disqualified from Maine ballot for nominating petitions “marred by fraudulent and dead-voter signatures”
after that his useless campaign signs kept “popping up at busy intersections” in New Hampshire.
Yutsano
@BlueGuitarist: Let me guess: he was a Green. :P
Leto
@Pharniel: there’s still the possibility of a tie! It happens at least once per season. Idk, it’s the same grousing that soccer fans have with penalty kicks. You had 90 mins, plus stoppage time, plus two 10 min overtimes… the teams had plenty of time to resolve this. Let’s get this over with and move on with our lives.
Chetan Murthy
@BlueGuitarist: Is this one of those instances where 12 different stab wounds were found in the body ? [like in Murder on the Orient Express ?]
Another Scott
@Chetan Murthy: Hehe.
Obligatory…
(She’s a genius.)
Cheers,
Scott.
Kalakal
@Yarrow: Gove is really popular with a lot of Tories. It’s one of life’s great mysteries like “Why is a raven like of writing desk?” or The Giant Rat of Sumatra. He has absolutely no redeeming characteristics, has the appearance of a newt that not even its mother could love, and the charm of a dyspeptic warthog. He is however a loyal flunkey of R Murdoch
SiubhanDuinne
@BlueGuitarist:
Perfection! Couldn’t possibly invent all that.
NotMax
@Another Scott
A favorite (and classic) Tracey Ullman sketch.
:)
Kalakal
A few months ago Gove turned up off his face at a nightclub in Aberdeen. Here god help us is a man who has a serious chance of becoming the next pm of the UK.
Viewers of a sensitive disposition may want to look away now
https://youtu.be/toYL4jjl4q4
phdesmond
@Another Scott:
that’s wonderful.
Another Scott
Andrew Yang sends me words. Words I didn’t ask for.
Of course, he closes asking for money. I think I’ll pass. I hope you do as well.
Cheers,
Scott.
danielx
Note: there should be a microsoft diagnostic message that says:
Cat walked, sat or lay upon keyboard and engaged airplane mode, you’re screwed.
Chetan Murthy
@Kalakal: Michael Gove. Drink!
Kalakal
@Chetan Murthy: Brilliant! He’s not as nice as that in real life though
Chetan Murthy
@Kalakal: tracey ullman is a world treasure!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtpk0dH9LJM
Kalakal
@Chetan Murthy: yes, she’s always known how to punch up,. She picks her targets well
mrmoshpotato
A song for your head
raven
@Steeplejack: I’m glad I saw the first words and closed the page! I DVR games and watch in the morning and I didn’t want to know the outcome. The Chargers had plenty of chances to win!
Steeplejack
@raven:
Glad you avoided it. I tried to put in a bit of a spoiler alert.
Ramalama
@Kalakal: This thread was on fire last night. I only see it now, after it’s dead.
But in the interest of the public, aka the public interest, any chance to make fun of former Canadian PM Stephen Harper is required. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67J6uhXzq_o
Another Scott
@Ramalama: A thread isn’t dead until J R in WV has commented.
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Zelma
@Kalakal:
Late to this thread, but I’ve been reviewing in my head the PMs since Pitt the Younger. (And yes, I know them all. Taught British history for 40 years.). Seems to me that in “awfulness,” Boris’s only competitors are Bonar Law and the Tory leader after the Napoleonic wars, whose name escapes me. (It wasn’t Castlereagh; he wasn’t PM). I mean I disagreed with the policies of many Tory PMs, but they weren’t assholes. Boris is.