@Ragman,
I think it will be because a play is allowed to be completed if it starts while there's time on the clock. The Steelers had 2 secs on the clock and were in the red zone and the commentator pointed out that there was enough time for the play to start at the snap. Which implied the play can be completed. A TD would have won the game.
Would the conversion attempt have taken place had they scored?
My four miscues lost by a total of 17 points. And the Giants lost by 6. That's how close I came to 15--0.
I noticed, as a psychological aside, that when the early games ended on NFL Red Zone, a wonderful invention of our already wonderful TV Sport Coverage, the first plays in those matches seemed like they had taken place a couple of months ago.
It seems we instinctively measure time by the rate of knots thoughts pass through the cranial organ of understanding. If one thought goes through your head per hour, like with cicerone imposter, who famously predicted early last season that I was having beginners luck, farmerman chiming in in a similar vein that I was picking out of a sock, and would finish near the bottom of the standings, then we get habituated to connecting one thought with an hour. Thus if it happens that two thoughts pass through our noggins in a hour, which is unlikely in the cases referred to above, then the hour seems like two hours and time seems to have slowed. A scientist with a stop-watch in his hand, a clip-board and a cheap ball-point pen, would laugh at such a preposterous unscientific notion. Him never having sniffed at the incense and all.
I suppose mathematically that an if an infinite number of thoughts were going through a Head time would stop. But that's one for the Doctors of Divinity.
I was stoned once in a car, I wasn't driving of course seeing as how I am such a responsible person, and the lights changed to red. I remember thinking after a while that this wasn't such a bad place to live after all. It was momentary but I caught it. I staggered through the open French windows one night into the garden for biological reasons and experienced a moment's astonishment that the sky existed.
The purpose of this preamble, besides passing the time pleasantly, is to wonder whether those who think time goes too fast should find ways of making thoughts go faster.
That NFL Red Zone programme certainly did that.
