https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/43004551/sources-lions-starting-dt-alim-mcneill-torn-acl 3 more down last night. GAME OVER
The Falcons wouldn’t have benefitted from having Belichick on the sidelines? Cmon now. Raheem Morris seems like a good guy, but this is the second consecutive coach that is having a hard time unlocking this offense with a sub-par defense. They never run play action? Why?
Tirico was (is?) a notorious sexual abuser who got fired from ESPN because of it and there was some stuff floating around about how he had a lot of whores on the road.
Bills to break out a new uniform combination this Sunday vs NE. Red over white. Buffalo Bills on X: " !! We're dropping a new uniform combination this Sunday. #NEvsBUF | #BillsMafia https://t.co/nxZkjUTy0R" / X
Olivia Ponton. She looks just like the action figure from that Beauty and the Beast movie that looked more like Bieber than Emma Watson.
Copied from a post on FB (one of the rare interesting ones) "As a dull sports fan, I take some joy in familiarizing myself with obscure rules of the sports/leagues that I follow. North American sports have many obscure rules, but probably the most obscure scoring play is the fair catch kick in the NFL. It’s a rule so obscure that only one has been attempted in the last decade and none have been successfully converted since 1976. Some coaches and many players are unaware that the rule even exists! The rule states that a team may attempt a kick on an untimed down after fair catching a punt. It is similar to a kickoff in that it cannot be reasonably blocked by the opposition, but unlike a kickoff, a tee may not be used which increases the difficulty. If successful, it is worth 3 points like a field goal. If unsuccessful, the other team takes over from the spot of the kick. The latter is a significant penalty, which means they should only be attempted with no time left in a half (usually the first half as the motivation is often not present to attempt one at the end of a game), or at the very least with very few seconds remaining in a half. Well the stars aligned on Thursday Night Football. I took note when the Broncos were backed up towards their own end zone late in the first half. Then the tension built as I did the math and noticed that a punt with <10s on the clock was likely. And the excitement really started to bubble over as I remembered that Jim Harbaugh is the coach of the Chargers. A fellow dull rules geek, I recalled him attempted a fair catch kick back in 2013 when he was coaching the 49ers. Sure enough he was all over it, and his punt returner appeared to be on a kamikaze mission to fair catch the ball. What would normally be considered a reckless play was a very sharp play given the circumstance. He failed to catch it but only because the defender interfered with him which is a penalty. At this point, I have to admit, I was unclear as to how the penalty would affect the fair catch kick attempt. But apparently, since he was interfered attempting to fair catch, they were still allowed the attempt, and the penalty only moved them 10 yards closer making the success of the kick much more likely! After a couple timeouts while the coaches attempted to coach their players up on the unusual play which was about to take place, the Chargers lined up and converted the kick from 57 yards! I can now die a happy dull man knowing that I have witnessed the first successful fair catch kick in my lifetime."
I watched the game on TV last night and called the fair catch free kick field goal possibility when it happened. The background is, the previous attempt in the league took place in London in 2019. It was at the half in a game between Carolina and Tampa Bay which I attended. I will very freely admit I had no idea at all what was going on when it happened and, as I was there, little opportunity to get a rules explanation was on offer. Very rare indeed, but I guess though, once you've seen it, you've seen it.
