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Originally Posted by Bob148
Every year about this time I like to tell the story of the magic lighter, the particular placement of which by myself atop a television just at the right moment, just after Tom apparently fumbled vs the Raiders on a snowy night in Foxboro, was perfectly timed to the effect that something magic was created. A rule, which was so rarely cited, so utterly ridiculously perfect, came into the lights of Foxboro that night. The famed tuck rule.
The rest is history.
Before my wife and I got married, we did this exercise where we went through this list of hypothetical situations. Some were deadly serious, like, "What would you do if you suspected your spouse was cheating on you?" One was more lighthearted - "How would you settle a dispute if one person wanted to watch a sports game and the other wanted to do something else?" Neither of us being huge sports fans, we jokingly agreed that neither of us really cares unless the Patriots are in the Super Bowl, in which case I get to watch the whole game uninterrupted.
At the time we made the agreement, I think the O/U on Patriots Super Bowls in the next 20 years had to be like 0.5.