NFL fans — and of course not nearly all of them — took to social media Sunday night to express their thoughts on overtime and the overtime rules of the National Football League. Some of them went right to the anti-gay and homophobia nonsense.
The NFL’s initial Sunday Night football game of the 2024 season was a nail-biter, with the Detroit Lions besting the Los Angeles Rams.
Of course, some idiot fans had to say stupid stuff about the NFL’s overtime rules and other nonsense.
Of course, this latest attack is a clear attempt to link something unpopular in a small handful of minds with gay people.
Good luck.
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For a few decades, the league had some form a sudden-death overtime rule. That meant the opening possession of overtime may have been more important than, say, the NBA.
In 2010, the NFL said a field goal in the first possession of overtime couldn’t end the game. Various machinations have been tinkered with over the last decade-plus. The latest is some Playoffs-only nonsense in which each team is guaranteed possession in overtime no matter what happens.
This is, apparently, gay as a picnic basket full of assorted cheeses and a complimentary chardonnay.
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The two teams are still quarterbacked by the two guys who had previously led the other team.
Matthew Stafford won a Super Bowl championship with the Rams after years tossing passes for the Lions. Likewise, Jared Goff was the Lions QB who had played for the Rams. The two were part of the same NFL trade. So far — given the Rams won a Super Bowl title with Stafford at the helm — Los Angeles fans seem to have come out ahead.
Yet Goff has had better numbers since switching teams. He threw three more touchdowns — 78 — in his first three seasons with the Lions, as well as nine fewer interceptions, than Stafford threw with the Rams.
Still, that Super Bowl ring Stafford wears — with a really strong defense and supporting team — has to sting Goff.
Now some fans are whining about overtime rules that aim to crown a winner in a game that featured players going at it for about three hours.
Gay or not, the current overtime rules are favored by a lot of people who don’t love a professional game ending in a tie.
And look at it this way: Unlike soccer, teams don’t line up to kick field goals to end a tie.
