Posted on 01/15/2018 6:06:06 AM PST by C19fan
The Minnesota Vikings’ final act of sportsmanship in their shock victory over the New Orleans Saints on Sunday cost bettors a lot of money. The Vikings won the NFC Divisional Round game over the Saints on a last-second 61-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Stefon Diggs at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. When Diggs ran into the end zone, the clock read 0:00, meaning the game was over. But the rules of football stipulate that even if a team scores a touchdown with no time left on the clock, it still needs to kick an extra point. Diggs’ touchdown gave the Vikings a 29-24 lead. An extra point would have extended the final score to 30-24, a six-point difference.
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Same reason a QB can spike the ball to stop the clock and not get busted for intentional grounding. Rulebook exemptions.
Yep. He was probably wanting to tackle him inbounds to prevent the possibility of a field goal attempt. Feel bad for the guy.
That said, SKOL Vikings!!
As the local announcer said,”...this happened to us!! This always happens against us!”
We are a happy Minnesota family today, even with sub zero January temps.
nflol!
Should have called it "Rugby" to begin with. American Rugby.
NFL won’t lose a penny on that. The businesses in the city will lose money, but the NFL doesn’t get any of that cash.
It will also get record-low ratings.
Of course in countries where rugby is king they call it “football”. There’s this whole chain of sports that evolved from soccer and which ever one is the top of the heap in an area is called football.
Ratings will be fine. The rumored death of the NFL is a pure fiction worshiped by many on FR but largely lacking in facts.
changed the rule back in the sixties or seventies.
BTW, I was born near Ardmore, OK.
Live in Alabama now.
I was born in Ada.
Soccer comes from the ‘soc’ in ‘Association Football’.
Nice story on Case Keenum.
Neither gridiron football (American and Canadian football) nor rugby evolved from soccer. That is an old wives tale repeated by those unaware of the true history of these sports. The origin story of the student who picked up the ball and ran with it during a soccer match never happened.
They evolved side by side from kicking and tackling games going back at least to Harpastum played by the Romans and the Greek version before that. Mob football, Gaelic football, and Calcio played in Florence were among the variations that developed over the years.
There were a bunch of different rules from town to town and school to school that weren’t generally agreed to until the mid 1800s in England. That’s when “soccer”, or Association Football, from the group known as the Football Association, and Rugby Football, so called because it came from Rugby College, were codified. At one point soccer still allowed touching by the hand of players other than the goalie.
Rugby eventually diverged into two types, Rugby League and Rugby Union, with variations in the rules. American football ceased to be a variation of rugby in 1905, when the forward pass was adopted as a legal play. Canadian football followed suit in 1925.
Keenum did his best to hand the game to Saints. He would have been the goat had Diggs not made that play. Brady is miles ahead of the other QBs left in the playoffs. I don’t see how they don’t win it all.
That story is a myth. See my other post for details.
Some times you gets the bear,
Some times the bear gets you,
Most days
You just gets bear hair all over you
Doesn’t really matter, what matters is that whichever is king in an area is what they call football.
It may not matter to you, but it matters to me. And is there any place that Rugby is king? Not sure is it’s even tops in Australia.
Well Australia has Aussie Rules. In New Zealand “footy” is rugby.
This is a fun map (hopefully the link works) and what’s football where:
http://i.imgur.com/V2VHOgo.png
And my favorite “No America isn’t the only place that calls it soccer” map:
http://i.imgur.com/2GHdRDg.jpg
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