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Wacky world of the NFL

This has been an exceedingly strange day in the NFL. I'll just pull from the games I was able to watch on cable today:

1. An expansion team (Houston Texans) won their first-ever game against the Dallas CryCowboys. Convincingly.
2. The New Orleans Saints won a game that was on the verge of ending in a tie when Tampa Bay's punter tried avoiding a safety by throwing a pass. Whoops - it was intercepted for a touchdown. Sudden death.
3. Kansas City needed an offensive lineman to get a lateral and run for 30 yards to set up a winning field goal. Not odd enough? It took a taunting penalty on Cleveland's punter to set up good field position for KC. Still too normal? A Cleveland player thought the game was over before the lateral took place, so took off his helmet and threw it in celebration. That's an automatic 15-yard penalty. Plus, a game cannot end on a defensive penalty. So even though the clock had expired during the above-mentioned run, KC got to line up and take the field goal attempt.
4. Detroit got blown out by Miami. Oh - that's not weird at all.

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A genuine no-prize if you can tell me what the template tweak was. And using Google is cheating for this exercise!

Art Buchwald

"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it." [Quotes of the Day]