NFL fans – and not all of them, of course – took to social media on Sunday night to voice their opinions on overtime and the National Football League’s overtime rules, with some of them directly addressing the homophobic and anti-gay nonsense.
The NFL’s first Sunday Night Football game of the 2024 season was a nail-biter, with the Detroit Lions defeating the Los Angeles Rams.
Of course, some idiot fans had to say stupid things about the NFL’s overtime rules and other nonsense.
Of course, this latest attack is a clear attempt to associate something that is unpopular in the minds of a handful of people with homosexuals.
Good luck.
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For several decades, the league had a sort of sudden-death overtime rule, meaning that possession of the ball at the start of overtime might have been more important than in, say, the NBA.
In 2010, the NFL declared that a field goal on the first possession of overtime could not end the game. Various schemes have been developed over the past decade, the latest being a playoff-only nonsense in which each team is guaranteed possession of the ball in overtime no matter what.
Apparently this is as cheerful as a picnic basket full of different cheeses and a free Chardonnay.
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The quarterbacks on both teams are still the two guys who previously led the other team.
Matthew Stafford won a Super Bowl title with the Rams after years of throwing passes for the Lions. Likewise, Jared Goff was the Lions’ quarterback who had played for the Rams. The two were part of the same NFL trade. So far, Los Angeles fans seem to have the advantage – as the Rams won a Super Bowl title with Stafford at the helm.
But since switching teams, Goff has put up better numbers. In his first three seasons with the Lions, he threw three more touchdowns – 78 – and nine fewer interceptions than Stafford did with the Rams.
Still, the Super Bowl ring that Stafford wears – with a really strong defense and a supporting team – has to hurt Goff.
Now, some fans are complaining about the overtime rules, which aim to crown a winner in a game in which players compete for about three hours.
Gay or not, the current overtime rules are supported by many people who don’t like it when a professional game ends in a draw.
And look at it this way: Unlike in football, teams do not line up to end a tie with field goals.
