Posted on 10/09/2009 8:37:39 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick
On Sunday, the field goal pictured above gave the Cincinnati Bengals a last-second overtime victory over the Cleveland Browns. It appeared pretty routine at the time. Shayne Graham booted it through the uprights, the officials positioned under the goalpost raised their hands to signal the kick was good, the Bengals celebrated, the Browns sulked and Rich Gannon was disappointed there was no kickoff afterward.
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I’ve haven’t paid much attention to them. I figured they were like 1-3, as usual. Sorry, I mispoke.
parsy, who has been drinking
Of course you can go on Youtube and notice that the FG that Denver kicked to beat Cleveland in the 1986 AFC Championship Game (aka the drive) looked to be no good on the tv angle and the person who posts that video suggests that it was no good.
How is Laurenitis playing for the Rams?
Hey Mike I tell people the Bengals are 3-1 and 4-0 in their hearts. LOL!
Our division played the toughest schedule in the NFL last year. This year it has the easiest. Even if Cincy finishes with 4 losses (very likely) they will not be first in the division. The should have lost to Pittsburgh by about 4 touchdowns. They will not fare so luckily against the Ravens on Sunday.
Must be the same ref that called a fair ball foul in tonights Yankees/Twins game. He was twenty feet from where it came down and it hit a least a foot inside the line.
KC Cheifs fan and have been waiting since 1969 for a return to the Superbowl. Looks like it’s going to be another 40 years before they return.
hard to tell
Barack 0bama would be declared the NFL’s MVP for that play
For all we know the video compressor decided that obscuring one of the goal post tips for one frame as the football passed in front just wasn't worth encoding and so just left the tip of goal post in for that frame.
Sounds ridiculous, but that sort of thing can happen with digital video compression. Compressed video doesn't completely tell the truth. It tells the truth to the extent there are bits available to tell the truth. When the bits run out, certain details of the video are ignored or altered.
No he didn’t. I thought that at first too, but he made it as another angle showed.
For the record, I am a Bengals fan, so my comment should be considered with that bias
that’s too eary to tell.
Currently the Bengals are 3-1 and tied for first in the AFC North with the Ravens, who they play this week in Baltimore
UC Bearcats are Number 1. :)
Best football team in this state ,,, and I think rated 12th nationally this week
My son goes to UC so I had to have some fun with that. They’ve never been rated above “THE OSU” in football before.
Number 8 (AP or Harris) or 10 (USA Today).
Unless I’m confused, it isn’t possible to have a tie in American football. If tied at the end of play, it just goes into repeated sudden-death overtime.
Which network televised the game, anyone recall?
One 15-minute session is played. The game ends as soon as one team scores. If the score remains tied, the game ends in a tie.
As a Bengal fan from their beginning (the team we love to hate) and created by a football legend (Paul Brown), always good to see Bengals beat the team named after him.
As an aside, Paul Brown and his Bengals quarterback coach developed the "West Coast" offense and implemented it with Ken Anderson, an exceptionally accurate passer who should be in the HoF. When PB retired from coaching and named his DC as the new head coach, the QB coach left the Bengals and he became HC for the 49's. That QB coach was Bill Walsh...and the rest is history.
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