Tuesday, December 24, 2002 :::
In response to Dean:
High kudos to ABC sports for its handling of a fan running onto the field late last night on Monday Night Football.
I think not showing that sort of hooliganism has become an industry standard. ("The Bachelor", you'll note, is an entirely different sort of hooliganism.) I was half-watching the hockey game last month where a streaker cimbed over the boards onto the ice, catching a rather sensitive part in a gap in the barrier in the process -- they didn't show him, either, though maybe that was partially a broadcast-decency-standard call.
On the other hand, a game in the little league world series this summer was delayed by a squirrel running onto the field, and the cameras followed him around quite a bit.
there's a contest looking for the biggest football fan to whom to award tickets to the Super Bowl; I heard this and thought, hey, what about us half-assed fans? (I must be one, having prefered Dennis Miller to John Madden.) We'd like to go to the Super Bowl, too, kind of.
Half-assed fans get to "kind of" go to the Super Bowl in the sense that they get to watch in their living rooms. It's a better view, frankly.
Speaking of John Madden and Super Bowls, I reminded Dad last night that during the Patriots' winning drive at the last Super Bowl, Madden kept saying that they should be running out the clock and going for overtime rather than risk losing the ball. This, of course, is stupid. Let's suppose it had gone to overtime, and the Pats had won the coin flip -- would Madden suggest they take the ball first, or let the Rams have it? If he thinks the Pats should take the ball themselves, how would they be any better off than they were with a minute left in regulation?
::: posted by Steven at 1:58 PM
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