Yup, plus he could have had a free shot at the opposing team's coach. But yeah, it's probably pretty hard to suppress your instinct to find a clear path to the end zone.

Tomlin should be punished under the league's substance abuse policy for forgetting to take his Ritalin.

How will they get shafted? It's not like the league is proposing to euthanize the player that the Steelers *would* have taken.

As much as I hate the Lakers, that is really clever. And fascinating.

Sigh. I feel like I go through this every week. Books are not always looking to balance the money on every game. If they have good intelligence about which way the game will go, they will look to direct money towards the wrong side. If they do not have particularly good intelligence about which side is right and…

It seems like Kobe genuinely (whether consciously or not) prefers to be the only superstar on a team. Things went horribly with Shaq and Dwight Howard. Is it even remotely conceivable he'd be able to get along with Rondo?

Stay tuned for deadspin's next community poll question: "Is water wet?"

Wow, losing that way would have made all the guys at Navy feel blue.

Dan Snyder just bought Phil Ball an all-expense paid trip to Foxwoods casino.

Wow. This almost makes me like Duke. Much like that time I almost had a threesome with two of the Laker Girls, in that I went to a basketball game at Staples and saw them dancing on the court and I think one of them looked in my general direction for a split second.

Wow, 100 mph? A guy with that kind of motor is a shoe-in for Al Davis' all-undead team.

Of course not, nothing could be worse than Joe Buck.

Too true. It's funny because if either one of them had the presence of mind to knock it down they would have won the game. Instead, neither did and they lost.

He was, but you should never intercept the ball on fourth down, no matter what. Hence the comment about the mittens.

Ultimately, your goal should be to get the ball to the ground as fast as possible. You should NEVER intercept the ball on fourth down. Ever. Aside from the yardage potential, slapping it sideways (or backwards) is a lot more likely to be productive than trying to catch it. Counterpoint to the Quin play: the Fail Mary.…

"Meh. It's been done."
- Raheem Morris.

Edit: duplicate.

If I were a football coach I'd make my safeties wear mittens on these Hail Mary plays, that way they would remember to bat the ball down instead of trying to intercept it like morons.

I think you're framing the issue the wrong way. The way I look at things, the national champion of college football is the team that wins the national championship game. The BCS system is designed to ensure that the most deserving teams get to play in that game. Having three or more undefeated teams makes that task…

It's certainly a lot more interesting than case 12-345678, a rather run-of-the-mill affair involving luggage theft.