Rich Gannon Fail

11:32 am EST October 5th, 2009 | Sports | 13 Comments

I didn’t get to see it, but apparently Rich Gannon made a major fubar during the Cleveland-Cincinatti game yesterday, expressing concern that a quick Bengals score would give the Browns time to come back.

In over time.

In sudden death over time.

That is NFL 101. It’s not like Gannon played in the NFL for 17 years. Oh wait.

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13 Responses to “Rich Gannon Fail”

  1. TKB says:
    October 5, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    I heard Gannon say that — he was kidded about having a Donovan McNabb moment.

  2. jr says:
    October 5, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    Rich Gannon sucked in Tecmo Super Bowl

  3. Parthenon says:
    October 5, 2009 at 1:07 pm

    Sudden death really sucks.

  4. Matt Osborne says:
    October 5, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    Sudden death is a hell of a lot less boring than college football and the lame-ass way they do overtime.

  5. Parthenon says:
    October 5, 2009 at 2:13 pm

    So you’d rather have it where one team doesn’t even touch the ball half the time? College OT is infinitely better.

  6. Quaker in a Basement says:
    October 5, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    Sudden death really sucks.

    Overtime sucks. Play for the win in regulation or wimp out.

  7. calling all toasters says:
    October 5, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    For overtime, they should start at the 50, and have the teams alternate possession on each play– team A gets one play, then Team B gets one play. Turnovers should get the line of scrimmage plus 15 yards, or wherever the ball is returned to (at the choice of the team taking possession).

    That took me 2 minutes to come up with: it may or may not suck, but it’s better than the current system.

  8. Alan says:
    October 5, 2009 at 3:55 pm

    What makes this really funny to me is that when I saw Oliver’s headline, for some reason I thought he was talking about Jeff Gannon, and I was flabbergasted at the idea that America’s Most Prominent Man-Whore had somehow rehabilitated himself into a sports commentator.

  9. supergee says:
    October 6, 2009 at 6:08 am

    But this means Al Davis is right about something!

  10. Dirty Davey says:
    October 6, 2009 at 11:11 am

    The college OT system is a travesty. Football is in part a game of field position and the “taking-turns” approach destroys the nature of the sport.

    I have no problem with the NFL OT rules as they stand, but if you have to have an alternative, simply have a sudden-death OT period that is a normal continuation of the fourth quarter–so going from the fourth to the “fifth” is the same as going from the third to the fourth.

    The up side is that whichever team starts OT with the ball has earned possession and field position via normal football. If team A ties the game on a desperation last-second play in the fourth quarter, then the obvious way to continue play is for team A to kick off to team B.

    The only possible down side is that, towards the end of regulation in a tie game, a continuation system would reward more conservative offensive play-calling and discourage wild risk-taking. Still, it would be the fairest way to play a sudden-death overtime.

  11. American Citizen says:
    October 6, 2009 at 11:40 am

    I thought that overtime was poorly played all around. There were six punts!

  12. liberalrob says:
    October 6, 2009 at 12:45 pm

    Somewhere, Howard Cosell is laughing his ass off. Another jock screwup in the broadcast booth!

    NFL overtime is fine the way it is; the only change I might make is force the team who gets the ball first to start on their own 20 (automatic touchback). So is NCAA overtime. Stop trying to make everything be the same everywhere.

  13. trakjoe says:
    October 6, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    Cincinnati – not Cincinatti