Sunday, January 01, 2006
Sometimes it's the unlikely explanation...
So I'm watching the Dolphins game today with my friend, and he notices on the crawler on the bottom of the screen that the Cardinals had taken the lead over the Colts 19-17 with thirteen seconds left. It caught his eye because the Cardinals win about as rarely as the Colts lose. But a few minutes later, we see the final score, and the Colts have won the game 17-13. My friend quickly concludes that he must have read the crawler wrong, as there's seemingly no other possible explanation to what happened. I concur just as quickly because, hey, it's not me admitting to having seen imaginary numbers on the screen.
But then I watch SportsCenter tonight, only to find that with thirteen seconds left, the Cardinals did in fact score a touchdown to go up 19-17 with thirteen seconds left, only to have the touchdown immediately taken away via instant replay, thus explaining how a team can lead a game 19-17 at one point, only to end up losing 17-13. My friend saw the score correctly after all. Sometimes it's the unlikely explanation that rules the day. Sure, the obvious explanation is often the accurate one, but not always.
Well there, that's my thought for the day. It's actually one of my (many) resolutions for the new year. Come here. Share something. Do it again the next day. They won't all be gems (some of them may more closely resemble germs), but so be it. I'll see what I can do. Some new years resolutions work out better than others (my lunch today consisting of three donuts was a testament to that), but you know what they say -- writers write.
So I'm watching the Dolphins game today with my friend, and he notices on the crawler on the bottom of the screen that the Cardinals had taken the lead over the Colts 19-17 with thirteen seconds left. It caught his eye because the Cardinals win about as rarely as the Colts lose. But a few minutes later, we see the final score, and the Colts have won the game 17-13. My friend quickly concludes that he must have read the crawler wrong, as there's seemingly no other possible explanation to what happened. I concur just as quickly because, hey, it's not me admitting to having seen imaginary numbers on the screen.
But then I watch SportsCenter tonight, only to find that with thirteen seconds left, the Cardinals did in fact score a touchdown to go up 19-17 with thirteen seconds left, only to have the touchdown immediately taken away via instant replay, thus explaining how a team can lead a game 19-17 at one point, only to end up losing 17-13. My friend saw the score correctly after all. Sometimes it's the unlikely explanation that rules the day. Sure, the obvious explanation is often the accurate one, but not always.
Well there, that's my thought for the day. It's actually one of my (many) resolutions for the new year. Come here. Share something. Do it again the next day. They won't all be gems (some of them may more closely resemble germs), but so be it. I'll see what I can do. Some new years resolutions work out better than others (my lunch today consisting of three donuts was a testament to that), but you know what they say -- writers write.
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