Donovan McNabb Didn’t Know NFL Games Could End In a Tie? Really?
Heard about this on Mike and Mike in the Morning today driving into work. Yes, I do listen to them when all of the other morning shows are on commercial break. Luckily, I caught it when they were talking Donovan McNabb and the Philadelphia Eagles tying the Cincinnati Bengals yesterday.
They played audio of McNabb’s press conference in which he admitted to not knowing that NFL games could end in a tie. He compounds this egregious error by wondering aloud what the NFL will do in the playoffs or Super Bowl. Donovan…playoff games can’t end in a tie. They play another overtime. It has happened multiple times.
According to Golic, McNabb was not the only Eagles player to make such an admission after the game, which is maybe even more surprising. Donovan McNabb is not just a rogue moron, but the Eagles locker room is filled with them!
Seriously?
Do Donovan McNabb and the Eagles ever watch the NFL? How can you not know what the overtime rules are, especially when they are such a bone of contention for so many people.
Anyway, here is the video:
What do you think?
Loading ...I don’t think this lack of common knowledge by Donovan McNabb did anything to change the outcome of yesterday’s game. He still hurled a hail mary at the end of the game, even though he thought they would get another crack at it. I just think the fact that he didn’t know such a common knowledge rule is mind-boggling, and that he would admit it publicly is even more mind-boggling. If I didn’t know about a rule so germane to the outcome of NFL games, I’d feel horribly embarrassed. I definitely would not be admitting in the press conference and giving the Eagle’s diabolical fan base even more fodder for booing me.
Wow. If this were a rookie, I suppose the lack of knowledge and lack of media savvy could be understandable. Not really, but at least somewhat explainable. For a guy of Donovan McNabb’s experience and stature to look like such a bumbling fool…I don’t really know what to say.
I didn’t know an NFL quarterback could be so clueless.
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Me and my son looked at the whole game and while laughing our heads off here comes the end of the game and McNabb interview. When he said he thought he would get another chance at it. My ten year old son (who play little league football) says dad you only get one over time in the nfl. Then to hear McSad opps I mean McNabb compare the NFL to Pop Warner rules godddddddddd I was done it wasd better than seeing my Cowboys beat the Skins!!!!!!!!!
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I can’t believe there is one vote for “I didn’t know either.” I am disappointed in our readers. Unless Donovan McNabb visited. Then it’s okay.
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Keep eating genetically modified Chunky Soup, you idiot!
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i bet he voted for obama too and didnt know his policies
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Hey, Mr. Know-It-Alls, out there. I’ve been watching NFL and college football for 30 years and I didn’t know a game in today’s era could end in a tie, either.
Ironically, the first game I ever saw in person was at the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium where the Browns played the Giants for a 14-14 tie.
But that simple tie rule changed (I don’t know when)changed, and now tie games go into a 15-minute overtime period where the first team that scores, wins.
I was at the Cleveland stadium to watch the Browns beat the Jets in a double overtime during the Bernie Kosar years. So it is understandable that the twenty- and thirty-something plaers of today may have never played to a tie.
Plus, each team’s record is recorded 4-6 or 5-5 to indicate wins and losses — not 4-5-1, for instance.
So Donovan McNab– and probably many plahyers and fans,were confused with the 13-13 Cincinnati-Philadelphia tie.
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Squizz Jorgenson Reply:
December 6th, 2008 at 2:26 am
@Midnight Writer, As a starting quarterback on a professional football team, where it is his job to know the rules, Mcnabb has no excuse for not knowing that. I don’t get paid to play and I know the rules, so is it too much to ask that a man with a multi-million dollar a year salary know all of the rules for his JOB?
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Midnight Writer Reply:
December 8th, 2008 at 4:12 am
@Squizz Jorgenson,
Do you actualy believe NFL players know all the rules of the game?
In the day, games often ended in a tie during regular season play — and that was that.
You might know which year that rule changed and ties during the regular season were viewed by the NFL Powers-That-Be as unsatisfying to football fans both at the games and watching on TV.
So the league then allowed for a 15-minute regular season play-off sudden death. But this is weighted so much in favor of whatever team wins the coin toss, it has, for the most part, led to quick scores (mostly field goals) to win the game.
Maybe you know the last time you looked at the standings and saw a team with: 7-5-1 record.
You could be the greatest quarberback ever to play the game, and yet, not know nearly as much as a midwest sports fan.
Thus, Donovan is exonerated, in my mind.
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Squizz Jorgenson Reply:
December 8th, 2008 at 9:47 am
@Midnight Writer, The fact is, it is a rule of the game, and quite frankly an important one for a quarterback to know. He’s not the greatest quarterback ever, in fact he’s really just an average quarterback, who does not know the rules and regulations of the game he plays for his JOB. There is no excuse for a player as important to the team as a quarterback, who is the on the field general, to not have a clue on a major rule that determines the outcome of a game.
Also, why is it so shocking that I expect NFL players to know the rules? Yes I actually believe NFL players know the rules. Why? It’s their job.
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