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captainsblogBuffalo's not exactly known for having good luck in the swingin' swirlin' world of sports. "Wide Right," "No Goal," "Forward Lateral" are as much a part of our history as McKinley's assassination. So even when we win, we worry about losing- but boy. Never before like today.
Bills-Raiders was a 1:00 game. For the past decade, we've fundamentally sucked, so they're all 1:00 games, beamed to as little of the country as humanly possible. Bills fell behind 21-3 in the first half, but came out smokin' in the second. Five possessions, five TDs. Oakland scored a bunch, too, and after Buffalo's last score, Oakland had six seconds left for one final Hail Mary pass to the end zone, which a Buffalo defender intercepted.
Yeeha. Players left. Fans left. CBS cut to Pats-Chargers. Postgames began. And then, I swear half an hour and a third of a mowed rear lawn later, fresh hell.
A WGR staffer called in to the postgame from the end zone. He was off duty, just hanging with a friend until the crowd dispersed. All of a sudden, officials are back on the field, and replays are running on the Jumbotron. You see, the league reviews every scoring play- which, someone decided wayyy too late, also includes plays where somebody was ruled to have NOT scored on account of an interception.
Four possibilities on a Hail Mary: Nobody catches it. (Bills win.) A Bill intercepts it (ruling on the field- Bills win.) A Raider caught it and downed it before the Bill stripped it. (Reversed call- Raiders win.) Or, and only the NFL could come up with shit like this: BOTH players caught it simultaneously. Guess what THAT does? No, it's not a jump ball. The Raiders woulda won. In an empty stadium with a Tottenham-style riot making it just about to West Seneca by now.
It didn't happen, thank gods. The ruling on the field was upheld. But it confirms, more than anything Mulder ever could unearth, that the Cigarette Smoking Man is still alive and on the job (slide it to 40 seconds):
Bills-Raiders was a 1:00 game. For the past decade, we've fundamentally sucked, so they're all 1:00 games, beamed to as little of the country as humanly possible. Bills fell behind 21-3 in the first half, but came out smokin' in the second. Five possessions, five TDs. Oakland scored a bunch, too, and after Buffalo's last score, Oakland had six seconds left for one final Hail Mary pass to the end zone, which a Buffalo defender intercepted.
Yeeha. Players left. Fans left. CBS cut to Pats-Chargers. Postgames began. And then, I swear half an hour and a third of a mowed rear lawn later, fresh hell.
A WGR staffer called in to the postgame from the end zone. He was off duty, just hanging with a friend until the crowd dispersed. All of a sudden, officials are back on the field, and replays are running on the Jumbotron. You see, the league reviews every scoring play- which, someone decided wayyy too late, also includes plays where somebody was ruled to have NOT scored on account of an interception.
Four possibilities on a Hail Mary: Nobody catches it. (Bills win.) A Bill intercepts it (ruling on the field- Bills win.) A Raider caught it and downed it before the Bill stripped it. (Reversed call- Raiders win.) Or, and only the NFL could come up with shit like this: BOTH players caught it simultaneously. Guess what THAT does? No, it's not a jump ball. The Raiders woulda won. In an empty stadium with a Tottenham-style riot making it just about to West Seneca by now.
It didn't happen, thank gods. The ruling on the field was upheld. But it confirms, more than anything Mulder ever could unearth, that the Cigarette Smoking Man is still alive and on the job (slide it to 40 seconds):
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