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The tears of Colts fans... They sustain me.

OOODOODOO. MAKWAKAA. OOODOODOO.

Horseshiat.

When you heard Lakers fans complaining about hack-a-Shaq, it wasn't because the strategy was employed, it was because he couldn't hit his free throws.

There's no point in having a coin toss if the team that wins it can decide, "Screw it! We are going to take the ball to start the second half too."

Just quick and dirty Googling shows that the on-side kick works when, gasp, the team isn't expecting it.



So if it became common to open the second half that way it wouldn't work that often. Also, what's to stop the team who defers from an on-side kick to start the game? Huh?

Yeah, and you're not supposed to bunt to break up a no-hitter, either.

Sour grapes, author. Sour grapes.

Earguy: Yeah, and you're not supposed to bunt to break up a no-hitter, either.

Sour grapes, author. Sour grapes.

I wouldn't do it in game 121 on August 14th.

But game 7 of the World Series? You bet your ass I would.

TFA: Although it was a legal play by existing NFL rules, there has always been an unwritten rule, a gentleman's rule that you do not attempt an onside kick to start a half.

Really, first I've heard of it.

TFA: At any other time on a kickoff, fine, but when you win the coin toss, you only get to receive the ball to start a half once. You don't get to break the rack in nine-ball 2 times in a row.

Nonsense. I know people say it that way a lot, but the coin flip determines who gets to decide what they want to do in each half, not who gets to kick in each half. That's why they say "Team X has deferred the option to the second half."

For example, I remember a Virginia Tech/UVA football game where UVA won the toss and deferred the option to the second half. VT then got the first half option and elected to receive, thereby giving UVA the choice of end of field to play from.

During the first half, the weather got nasty and the wind really kicked up. At the start of the second half, UVA's coach (the terrible Al Groh) decided he'd rather choose to play with the wind to his back in the 4th quarter, so they chose end of field with their deferred option. VT then elected to receive.

Long story short, Virginia Tech received the kick off at the beginning of each half.

Retard columnist is retarded.

I know, cool story bro, tl;dr

What a pussy.

Wow. I thought this level of retard could only be found at a Truther protest.

Get over it Colts fans. You lost.

If you really want to analyze it, you got your azzes handed to you. Your beloved team was outscored 31-7 after the first quarter.

When you decide to receive in the first half, you choose to (basically) kick in the 2nd half. That's what they chose. That's what they did. If you have a problem with this, you should either a) make sure your front guys can handle a ball or b) write a whiny article after the fact.

Oh for fark's sake.

The comments are classic, particularly where TFA's writer came back in to try and clarify his stance. To summarize....

"I don't think that the onside kick should be banned except in this one particular situation when my BQFF has a chance to get the ball and does not because the nasty Saints are being doodyheads."

/Emphasis mine.

TFA is laughable and I can't believe the author is serious. If Payton didn't do everything he could to win, he'd be roundly criticized.

It was also impolite to kick three field goals from beyond 40 yards. There's an unwritten gentleman's rule to punt from that distance, and not show up the other team just cause you happen to have Kicky McStrongleg on your team.

See, these are the kind of fans that drive me nuts. The ones that think the millisecond they win anything that they're entitled to everything on the planet because their team's awesome, and didn't just spend much of the previous twenty years being miserably bad. Just accept that things happen because of how your team plays, and go with it. Sure you can biatch about them doing dumb things, and celebrate the good things, but don't act like the world farking owes you.

Can you imagine this guy's response if the Saints had onside kicked to start overtime?

Rape yourself to death you weapons grade tardbucket

How many gentlemen are still coaching and playing football? I mean, can you imagine anyone calling Rex Ryan a gentleman?

Dave Wanstead's Dolphins pulled the "surprise" on-side kick against Bobby Ross's Detroit Lions in 2000. Bobby Ross resigned the following day, right in the middle of the season. I didn't see him write an article calling Wanstead a "non-gentleman".

Sour grapes make great whine.

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Don't know why I like this graph so much.