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Canned Sunshine: Nov 20, 2005; CAUTION: POST QUALITY UNDER CONSTRUCTION

It�s like baseball games going well into double-digit innings.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 22:57

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# ? May 24, 2024 18:52

Gatts: Jan 2, 2001; Goodnight Moon; Nap Ghost

I wonder where and what the players ate and drank while in Vegas. It has a good food scene, off strip too.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 23:00

Zwabu: Aug 7, 2006

Gatts posted:

I wonder where and what the players ate and drank while in Vegas. It has a good food scene, off strip too.

I would enjoy watching a bunch of linemen destroy the buffet at Caesar�s or Bellagio.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 23:12

a neat cape: Feb 22, 2007; Aw hunny, these came out GREAT!

fartknocker posted:

I�ve seen some multi-OT playoff hockey games where it never seems to leave the neutral zone for an hour.

By the third or fourth OT at 2 AM, you simultaneously love it and wish for the sweet release of death.

Playoff OT hockey unequivocally rules

# ? Feb 13, 2024 23:23

trevorreznik: Apr 22, 2023

I still remember watching that Philly Pittsburgh game in 2000 in college dorms, wander off for an hour, come back, game is still going. Repeat

# ? Feb 13, 2024 23:33

fartknocker: Oct 28, 2012; Damn it, this always happens. I think I'm gonna score, and then I never score. It's not fair.; Wedge Regret

a neat cape posted:

Playoff OT hockey unequivocally rules

That said, the 4 OT Panthers-Hurricanes game in the ECF last season took years off my life.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 23:46

Abugadu: Jul 12, 2004; 1st Sgt. Matthews and the men have Procured for me a cummerbund from a traveling gypsy, who screeched Victory shall come at a Terrible price. i am Honored.

facialimpediment posted:

The more I rewatch that play, the more I'm kinda fascinated by it. I keep looking at SF's #54 (Warner, Linebacker) as he'd be the edge-setter if it wasn't Bosa. And Warner hugs the line, then immediately grabs the slot receiver as he passes off Kelce to a corner. Bosa could've been expecting Warner to play as the Edge, but Warner didn't as he had that coverage duty on the slot when it became clear it was a pass play.

Kelce/Bosa hit the same area so quick I have no idea if Kelce made a read to let Bosa go, or his job was always to get out into the flat and abandon blocking. Sure looked like with Warner in coverage, it was Bosa or something.

I think Kelce has the option to hit Bosa if Bosa stays home to try to clear a lane near the edge, but if that happens, Mahomes has one other free defender to get past since that defender no longer has to defend the Kelce route. Watch #33 on defense, if he doesn't have to cover Kelce, he's got a shot at stopping Mahomes. I'm assuming here that Reid wants that matchup more than Bosa having a shot at him.

Overall, pretty good design if the other team hasn't seen this before - probably a ~75% chance that Bosa gets sucked in by the pre-snap motion, formation, and blocking fakes, which means Mahomes has a 2v1 to the right, play probably succeeds 90% of the time (accounting for a potential drop, potential CB blitz off that side, bad snap, etc.); in the event Bosa stays home, Kelce blocks, Mahomes has to beat #33 for the first, somewhere around a 50/50 shot, Mahomes is fast and knows the game is on the line so he's sacrificing everything to get it. So like roughly 80% chance you get the first there.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 23:51

MakaVillian: Aug 16, 2003; Well, in Whoville they say - that his tiny hands grew three sizes that day.

I don't think Bosa was every supposed to stay home anyway, Mahomes doesn't exactly have many designed runs, so he needs to be the backside pursuit guy incase the RB cuts back. It was a great playcall/audible by Mahomes as a tendency-breaker.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 23:55

C. Everett Koop: Aug 18, 2008

kiimo posted:

They would have forced you to listen to Travis Kelce scream the entire lyrics of Viva Las Vegas

Usher and co get dragged back out there to perform a second time.

PureEvil6_13 posted:

Ooof can you imagine watching hours of OT where it's just 3 and outs for infinity?

Flashbacks of Penn St/Illinois OT futility.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:08

Gatts: Jan 2, 2001; Goodnight Moon; Nap Ghost

Zwabu posted:

I would enjoy watching a bunch of linemen destroy the buffet at Caesar�s or Bellagio.

lmao that'd be awesome.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:08

Cthulu Carl: Apr 16, 2006

C. Everett Koop posted:

Flashbacks of Penn St/Illinois OT futility.

Spongebob, Patrick, and Dora were already punchy as gently caress at the start of OT, imagine how they'd be at the end of 5OT and staring down the barrel of 6OT

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:29

Fat Jesus: Jul 13, 2011; to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2023

the refs tried to give it to the 49er's during that last drive, obvious 1st down spotted 2 yards short. Patrick said lol, hold beer plz.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:35

Kevino07: Oct 16, 2008

https://x.com/TomPelissero/status/1757533954528231510?s=20

A tough motherfucker. Probably costs him a big payday in the off-season though.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:45

SilvergunSuperman: Aug 7, 2010

Lol @ Shanahan having to put out these "I swear they knew the ot rules!" statements

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:51

FAT32 SHAMER: Aug 16, 2012

Gatts posted:

I wonder where and what the players ate and drank while in Vegas. It has a good food scene, off strip too.

The best Ethiopian and Somali cuisine I�ve ever had was off the strip by some random casino off on its own

There was also a v good Nigerian place which was something I never experienced and it owned

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:55

CharlestheHammer: Jun 26, 2011; YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

SilvergunSuperman posted:

Lol @ Shanahan having to put out these "I swear they knew the ot rules!" statements

Goons said it was no big deal so that should have been enough

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:59

TheBizzness: Oct 5, 2004; Reign on me.

fartknocker posted:

That said, the 4 OT Panthers-Hurricanes game in the ECF last season took years off my life.

The 5OT Lightning/Jackets game as game 1 of the playoffs, the season after the Jackets swept the best regular season team of all time Lightning, was nuts.

My wife and I left for dinner after a period of OT, ate dinner 20 minutes from the house and then came home to another period + of OT (the game was on where we had dinner).

If the bolts lose that game, I sincerely believe they do not win the cup that year.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:59

Strobe: Jun 30, 2014; GW BRAINWORMS CREW

Shanahan seems like a good coach, the list of teams that have lost to Mahomes after being up by 10 points is a lot longer than it should be.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 01:00

kiimo: Jul 24, 2003

I watched this one in Vegas. It was epic

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap/_/gameId/290710041

quote:

Syracuse survives longest game in Big East history with epic win over UConn

Updated: Mar 13, 2009, 02:33 pm

NEW YORK -- Syracuse and Connecticut played a game for the ages Thursday night and into early Friday. When it was over, everybody in Madison Square Garden was exhausted and, except for the losing team, exhilarated.

Telling someone that Syracuse (No. 20 ESPN/USA Today, No. 18 AP) beat Connecticut (No. 4 ESPN/USA Today, No. 3 AP) 127-117 in six overtimes in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament is equivalent to saying there's a star in the sky.

There's more, so much more.

"I've got no words," Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said when asked to describe the second-longest Division I game ever. "I've never been prouder of any team I've coached."

There were the numbers, from the 3 hours, 46 minutes it took to play the game that ended at 1:22 a.m., to the combined 244 points, 102 of which came after the regulation buzzer, to the eight players who fouled out, to the six who registered double-doubles.

And that wasn't nearly all. Just ask Syracuse point guard Jonny Flynn, who had 34 points and 11 assists in a game-high 67 minutes, only 3 fewer than were played.

"I just wanted to get the game over with," he said. "I was thinking, 'Lord, just get this game over with. Whoever wins the game, let's just get it over with.'"

Much earlier in the evening, West Virginia beat No. 2 Pittsburgh 74-60, meaning that instead of a much-anticipated third meeting between two teams that held the No. 1 ranking this season in the semifinals, it will be sixth-seeded Syracuse (No. 20, No. 18) and the seventh-seeded Mountaineers.

"I can't even feel my legs right now," Flynn said. "It was a tough game, we battled it out, but we have to turn it around -- today -- and face a tough team in West Virginia."

Top-seeded and fifth-ranked Louisville will meet fourth-seeded Villanova (No. 13, No. 10) in the other semifinal.

Andy Rautins hit a 3-pointer 10 seconds into the sixth overtime, giving the Orange their first lead since regulation.

"We needed to get one tip and sure enough we had the set play and we had Andy coming off a set screen and boom, he made it," Boeheim said. "That was pretty big."

The game finished one overtime short of the record set in Cincinnati's 75-73 victory over Bradley on Dec. 21, 1981.

Paul Harris had 29 points and 22 rebounds, while Eric Devendorf had 22 points and Rautins had 20, all but two on 3-pointers.

The Orange made 40 of 51 free throws, but Connecticut made just 24 of 42.

"We lost the game because we turned the ball over 27 times and couldn't make a foul shot," Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun said.

A.J. Price had 33 points and 10 assists for the Huskies (27-4), while Stanley Robinson had 28 points and was one of three Connecticut players with 14 rebounds. Hasheem Thabeet had 19 points, 14 rebounds and six of the Huskies' 16 blocked shots.

What will almost be forgotten as this game is recounted over the years was that it was nearly over before even one overtime was played.

Connecticut's Kemba Walker, one of the smallest players on the court, grabbed a loose rebound and laid it in with 1.1 seconds left in regulation to tie the game at 71. After a Syracuse timeout, Harris ran the baseline and threw an inbounds pass past midcourt that was deflected by Connecticut's Gavin Edwards to Devendorf, who let a shot go from about 28 feet just as the red lights around the backboard went off.

It went in, and Devendorf jumped up on the courtside press table, pounding his chest and screaming as his teammates reached up and pulled him down to the court.

The play was reviewed -- as are all shots near the end of halves -- and veteran officials John Cahill and Bob Donato watched replay after replay, finally stepping back and ruling the shot was late, sending the game into the first overtime 5-minute overtime.

It wouldn't end until six of them were played.

"It would have been a lot better if they just counted Eric's shot and we could have gone home 2 hours ago," Boeheim said, "but that's the way it goes."

Connecticut took the lead in each of the first five overtimes, but Syracuse found a way to come back in all of them. Rautins' 3 to start the sixth overtime gave the Orange their first lead since 71-69 with 27 seconds to go in regulation.

"It's a loss. There was something historic about the game, certainly," Calhoun said. "Both teams competed. Rautins' big 3, A.J.'s big plays. ... I'm sure in the summertime I'll look back at what a historic battle it was. Right now, it's a loss.

"We wanted to play tomorrow night, and playing Friday night in Madison Square Garden, playing in the semifinals, is pretty special."

The first overtime ended tied at 81-81 when Walker ducked between two Syracuse players for a 3-point attempt at the buzzer that was short.

The second overtime almost had an ending for the ages when Walker let go with a shot from just inside midcourt that bounced off the back of the rim, leaving it tied at 87.

Connecticut scored the first six points of the third overtime, and the Huskies were still ahead by six on Jeff Adrien's follow dunk with 2:08 left. Harris scored consecutive field goals for Syracuse, and after Price made one free throw with 21 seconds left for a 98-95 lead, Rautins hit a 3 with 11 seconds left to tie it. Price missed a 3 and Adrien was off with the rebound, and it was time for the fourth overtime, making this the longest Big East tournament game.

Price missed a drive with 10 seconds left in the fourth overtime and Harris had two shots blocked in the final seconds to send it to No. 5 tied at 104.

Price took an NBA-distance 3-pointer with 6 seconds left in the fifth overtime and it bounced off the rim to Adrien, who was short with a jumper at the buzzer, leaving the game tied at 110.

The players were exhausted and most of the sellout crowd of 19,375 was still in the seats, or at least standing in front of them, for the sixth overtime.

Because four players from each team fouled out, players who rarely saw action all season were on the court in the final 5 minutes.

The only previous triple-overtime game in Big East tournament history was Syracuse's 83-80 victory over Villanova in the 1981 championship game, just the second one ever played. That game featured Leo Rautins of the Orange, Andy's father.

"The triple-overtime game was an unbelievable game," said Boeheim, who was still a relative newcomer on the sidelines then. "I think it'd be hard to top this game."

# ? Feb 14, 2024 01:04

a neat cape: Feb 22, 2007; Aw hunny, these came out GREAT!

fartknocker posted:

That said, the 4 OT Panthers-Hurricanes game in the ECF last season took years off my life.

My dad and I went to a 4OT game in the AHL playoffs last June. Holy gently caress.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 01:05

Gatts: Jan 2, 2001; Goodnight Moon; Nap Ghost

I watched Detroit beat the Chiefs in Vegas in the season opener and I didn't bet on Detroit like I thought I should have. It was a blast.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 01:23

fartknocker: Oct 28, 2012; Damn it, this always happens. I think I'm gonna score, and then I never score. It's not fair.; Wedge Regret

TheBizzness posted:

The 5OT Lightning/Jackets game as game 1 of the playoffs, the season after the Jackets swept the best regular season team of all time Lightning, was nuts.

My wife and I left for dinner after a period of OT, ate dinner 20 minutes from the house and then came home to another period + of OT (the game was on where we had dinner).

If the bolts lose that game, I sincerely believe they do not win the cup that year.

That was the first game in the COVID bubble in Toronto too. I was working from home and watched the whole thing with my Dad. It started at like 3 PM and ended at like 9:20 PM and by the end I was cackling.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 01:29

trevorreznik: Apr 22, 2023

C. Everett Koop posted:

Usher and co get dragged back out there to perform a second time.

Flashbacks of Penn St/Illinois OT futility.

I turned into Sam Neill in the movie theater watching that

# ? Feb 14, 2024 02:29

Cthulu Carl: Apr 16, 2006

trevorreznik posted:

I turned into Sam Neill in the movie theater watching that

You grabbed Laura Dern's head to get her to stop looking at a plant so she could see the real poo poo?

# ? Feb 14, 2024 02:35

Pron on VHS: Nov 14, 2005; Blood Clots
Sweat Dries
Bones Heal
Suck it Up and Keep Wrestling

https://x.com/bendog28/status/1757461544856674720?s=20

# ? Feb 14, 2024 02:36

Ornery and Hornery: Oct 22, 2020

Pron on VHS posted:

https://x.com/bendog28/status/1757461544856674720?s=20

40% is way higher than I would have expected. I guess it�s the way the points are aggregated, which means it includes all the made field goals.

Also Mahomes is Goku.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 02:41

Doctor Teeth: Sep 12, 2008

ive decided my favorite part of chiefs postseasons (other than the obvious) is jim nantz resigning himself to having kelce screaming beastie boys in his ear

# ? Feb 14, 2024 02:55

kiimo: Jul 24, 2003

I was not a fan of Tony Romo talking over the moment of winning the entire loving time and absolutely zero of what he said was important or necessary

# ? Feb 14, 2024 02:57

post hole digger: Mar 21, 2011

They won�t do it but I�d love it if fox bringing in Brady meant cbs had Greg Olsen replace Romo

# ? Feb 14, 2024 03:06

FAT32 SHAMER: Aug 16, 2012

post hole digger posted:

They won�t do it but I�d love it if fox bringing in Brady meant cbs had Greg Olsen replace Romo

# ? Feb 14, 2024 03:07

Zwabu: Aug 7, 2006

Strobe posted:

the list of teams that have lost to Mahomes after being up by 10 points is a lot longer than it should be.

I remember turning on the Chiefs vs. Texans in the playoffs and watching the Texans go up by 3 TDs and thinking "well I guess I can find something else to do with my afternoon", but then watching a little longer and the Chiefs erased that deficit in what seemed like about two minutes of game time, and then proceeded to bury the Texans. Granted the Chiefs offense was a lot more potent then, but still.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 03:49

Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; bone shaking.
soul baking.

Zwabu posted:

I remember turning on the Chiefs vs. Texans in the playoffs and watching the Texans go up by 3 TDs and thinking "well I guess I can find something else to do with my afternoon", but then watching a little longer and the Chiefs erased that deficit in what seemed like about two minutes of game time, and then proceeded to bury the Texans. Granted the Chiefs offense was a lot more potent then, but still.

Mahomes really is football Goku. There hasn't ever been someone that has performed as well as him in clutch situations. He is the most clutch QB of all time.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 03:54

Doctor Teeth: Sep 12, 2008

The Daniel Sorensen Game

# ? Feb 14, 2024 04:00

Zwabu: Aug 7, 2006

Doctor Teeth posted:

The Daniel Sorensen Game

I just watched the highlights for this game and Pat was slinging dimes early on but the Chiefs receivers dropped a metric ton of passes until they got it together. Hardman and Sammy Watkins had pretty decent games and Kelce went Super Saiyan.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 05:27

Fat Jesus: Jul 13, 2011; to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2023

people forget how hard they fought to get there

# ? Feb 14, 2024 05:28

SilvergunSuperman: Aug 7, 2010

I mean on the average I'd say not

# ? Feb 14, 2024 05:50

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

fartknocker posted:

I�ve seen some multi-OT playoff hockey games where it never seems to leave the neutral zone for an hour.

By the third or fourth OT at 2 AM, you simultaneously love it and wish for the sweet release of death.

there was a penguins playoff game that went to 4 OT in the late-middle of the aughts, on a weeknight, it was so awful

# ? Feb 14, 2024 06:18

Sash!: Mar 16, 2001

fartknocker posted:

I�ve seen some multi-OT playoff hockey games where it never seems to leave the neutral zone for an hour.

By the third or fourth OT at 2 AM, you simultaneously love it and wish for the sweet release of death.

I remember the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals Game 5 where the Pens fought off elimination for 2.5 periods to force a Game 6. The next day, there was a general attitude of "yeah, the Wings are going to win the next one, but the Pens gave it literally everything they had last night and went down swinging."

# ? Feb 14, 2024 06:22

elime anning: Nov 19, 2002; Morbid Hound

kiimo posted:

I was not a fan of Tony Romo talking over the moment of winning the entire loving time and absolutely zero of what he said was important or necessary

God yes. He would not shut the gently caress up. He was mumbling as the game winning play was happening! Shut up dude!!

# ? Feb 14, 2024 06:22

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# ? May 24, 2024 18:52

The337th: Mar 30, 2011

Fat Jesus posted:

people forget how hard they fought to get there

drowning in an ocean of doubters

suffocating under a mountain of naysayers

burdened by anti-Swifties

no one has known a struggle like this

# ? Feb 14, 2024 06:22

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