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Here's the link to that hilarious "Great Overtime Debate" between Jim Nantz and Phil Simms on last weekend's edition of Inside the NFL. In this remarkable clip, Nantz, a good-looking nebbish most closely associated by viewers with the act of whispering over golf putts, grows about 11 feet tall, eats Simms alive, and ends up physically taking over the broadcast from a chuckling Cris Collinsworth.
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Comments (9)
Oh man, that was fantastic. The line about the owners actually voting on it in 2003 was just beautiful.
Posted by Andy Grabia | January 13, 2009 8:34 PM
Posted on January 13, 2009 20:34
Was Phil being game by taking the losing side of the argument for the sake of a good segment, or was he sincerely having his irrationality (and unpreparedness) exposed on national TV?
Posted by Ryan Cousineau | January 13, 2009 9:44 PM
Posted on January 13, 2009 21:44
Yet again you have to ask: are Americans clueless or just unnecessarily jingoistic. Watching commenters needlessly trash the NHL is one thing, but did none of them think to suggest, intead of the college rules, the highly successful overtime rules of an older professional football league?
(My vote is for the second one, if the conversation I once had in NY with a Boston resident was accurate: once he learned I was from Edmonton, he apologized profusely for screaming "BC Football" over and over again at Coyote Ugly's)
Posted by FACLC | January 14, 2009 12:47 AM
Posted on January 14, 2009 00:47
My vote is for the second one, if the conversation I once had in NY with a Boston resident was accurate:
We Americans generally know that the CFL exist, but I don't think anyone could tell you what the overtime rules are in the CFL. Heck, even players aren't straight on all the quirks of the NFL rulebook, as an actually amusing Rick Reilly column demonstrated recently.
Posted by John Thacker | January 14, 2009 3:04 AM
Posted on January 14, 2009 03:04
According to Wikipedia, the CFL overtime rules and the NCAA/American high school football overtime rules seem pretty similar to me (except for the one point for punting). Are you sure the Americans are the one with a jingoistic agenda?
Posted by Kevin K | January 14, 2009 6:22 AM
Posted on January 14, 2009 06:22
John Thacker: I am highly let down that you didn't just mention Donovan McNabb not knowing you could have a tie in the NFL, and even more let down that you found Rick Reilly amusing.
And here's a question for all the pigskin lovers in the audience. When was the last time the NFL changed a rule as major as, say, the two-line pass or the goalie trapezoid in hockey?
Posted by Lord Bob | January 14, 2009 10:53 AM
Posted on January 14, 2009 10:53
They only re-adopted the two-point convert in 1994, that's a pretty fundamental change.
Posted by Colby Cosh | January 14, 2009 10:56 AM
Posted on January 14, 2009 10:56
I am highly let down that you didn't just mention Donovan McNabb not knowing you could have a tie in the NFL, and even more let down that you found Rick Reilly amusing.
Believe me, I was pretty let down myself that I found him amusing. But the article was amusing. Simply because it featured very little of Reilly's writing, and was just him asking obscure rules questions to groups of players and printing their responses. Read the article. Not for Reilly's writing, there's thankfully little of that. Just seeing the questions and the answers is amusing. Best column he's ever written, because there's so little of him in it.
I didn't mention McNabb because I assumed that everyone knew that one, and because that was the hook for that article in the first place.
Posted by John Thacker | January 14, 2009 12:05 PM
Posted on January 14, 2009 12:05
I would say the challenge flag, allowing the teams to initiate a review by instant replay, was a pretty major change, and that came in the past 10 years if I'm not mistaken.
Posted by Alex | January 15, 2009 6:27 PM
Posted on January 15, 2009 18:27