When the kicked PAT conversion rate is at about 99%, I think it’s fair to say that any given miss is an outlier, and probably not correlated with a kicker’s quality. By making the kick a little bit harder, a miss is still likely to be quite arbitrary event, and yet also fairly likely to affect the game’s outcome.…

I’m not the only one who immediately thought of the Heather Thomas poster upon reading this comment. Right?

It just occurred to me that if he were still with us he could do a devastating Denny Hastert skit.

I think the thing that’s changed about SNL is expectations. The fact that the show is 40 years old and the audience has obviously changed in that time has a lot to do with it. I’m old enough to remember a lot of that history. There was always an undercurrent of being underwhelmed by the show, but you still didn’t want…

I always wondered if they ripped off the original camel-punching scene from Blazing Saddles.

The US is quite probably not going to be a dominant side in my lifetime (late 40s). What they can be is a team that always has at worst a puncher’s chance in any game and a real threat in most. There’s really nothing wrong with that, given the landscape of international soccer. I’m very plugged in to the USMNT, rarely…

And still a better end than this fucking Mexican farce. The sad part is, this isn’t even fixed in a sport notorious for match-fixing.

Mexico v Trinidad & Tobago has been fucking insane.

Why am I almost certain that in bars across Canada lots of guys who had never watched soccer before simultaneously said “most dangerous lead” after the header.

Saw Jordan play a show in ‘88 or ‘89. Chillest concert I’ve ever witnessed. It was a SRO venue, but everybody just sat on the floor.

They had two other angles which, when synched up, made it fairly clear that he dropped his heel on the plate. None of the shots taken alone was really definitive. I think they got it right. Only drawback was a fairly lengthy delay of at least 5 minutes between Bochy clarifying the appeal process, then doing the appeal…

And then in a second half he returned an INT about 80 yards for a TD on that leg.

It’ll be like watching HS football on Sunday. Not quite, because the kickers are better, but the first time an otherwise evenly played game goes 24-23 because of a missed PAT people will be unhappy. This is one of those “let’s jazz it up” ideas that will have unintended consequences.

My guess it that fans are going to hate this when they figure out what it means for outcomes. They want games decided by touchdowns passes and big offensive plays. They don’t want games decided by PAT unless it’s some sort of dramatic move at the end of an intense game. I think the NFL really dropped to ball on this.…

Wait, you mean devices can be useful off-line?

The goal was scored 12 seconds and a ton of activity after a marginal offside that had either no or fleetingly negligible effect on the play. Nobody should have bitched it it was called. Nobody should bitch if it wasn’t.

This argument cuts both ways, though. By extension, it means that the station cut into the broadcast knowing that they were preempting the winning moment, which takes it from being a decision with unfortunate timing to being a colossal dick move.

Sweet Jesus, did all you guys lose your sarcasm meters?

College ball should definitely adopt the NBA advance-to-halfcourt-on-a-timeout rule so shit like this and the Laettner play and the Bryce Drew play and the Tyus Edney play never happen again.

If they're going to change it they should just get rid of it. Give a team the ability to elect to take 7 for a TD or take 6 with an option to go for 2.