micky wrote:
On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 12:25:47 +0000 (UTC), DerbyDad03
wrote:
Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,
willshak wrote:
wrote:
*WARNING*
It's Superbowl Sunday.
Before turning on that game, answer this important question:
* Is your heart healthy enough for football?
(Be sure to ask this question to all your buddies too)
It was too funny to affect the heart. The Broncos had lost the game by
the end of the first quarter.
In retrospect, they lost game at the first snap.
In reality, they lost the game when the clock expired at the end of the 4th
quarter.
Well, I don't know. I"m reminded of Yogi Berra's statement, "It ain't
over till it's over". He was talking about baseball, where one team can
score any number of runs in the last inning and time is not a factor.
But in many sports, including football, one team can fall so far behind
the other that at some time, there's no way they can catch up. I think
I've seen 16 points scored in the last 3 minutes once, but never more
than that.
It's really quite simple.
Until the final whistle is blown in an NFL game, neither team has won or
lost. It doesn't matter if it's physically impossible for a team to catch
up, they haven't _lost_ until the final whistle blows. The only things a
team can be while there is still time left on the clock is winning, losing
or tied. In fact, a team can be losing when there is 0:00 on the clock at
the end of the 4th quarter and still not have lost yet. I'll leave that one
for you to figure out.
There is no "mercy rule" in NFL football. A team could be ahead by 400
points with 30 seconds left on the clock but they haven't won yet. They
certainly are winning, but they haven't won, so the other team hasn't lost.
Yogi Berra's comment applies to football just as well as baseball. It ain't
over until it's over, and it ain't over until the final whistle blows.