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September 11, 2016
SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Lane Kiffin wears Tyvek to a Nomex party.
posted by beaverboard at 10:08 AM on September 11, 2016
Congratulations to Arkansas, the new holders of the lineal college football championship. This is the Razorbacks' third reign (one in the 1960s, or the pre-CollegeFootballBelt.com era). Barring a major upset by Texas State, looks like Alabama will reunify the fake playoff "championship" with the true title some time in October.
posted by Etrigan at 10:24 AM on September 11, 2016
The Packers just caught the Jaguars with 12 men on the field through a coach's challenge.
This makes me wonder: Is tech available that would enable an NFL team to count the opponent's players automatically and alert a coach every time it happens?
posted by rcade at 01:17 PM on September 11, 2016
This makes me wonder: Is tech available that would enable an NFL team to count the opponent's players automatically and alert a coach every time it happens?
I just always assumed there was a person responsible for that exact thing. Someone in the booth perhaps?
posted by BoKnows at 02:07 PM on September 11, 2016
A booth person could do it, but tech would be infallible. I'd like to be the person who thought of this before Bill Belichick.
posted by rcade at 08:54 PM on September 11, 2016
Yasiel Puig makes a 1.2 Pillar* catch to preserve (what was at the time) a perfect game.
* preserving no-hitters and/or perfect games in the 7th inning or later adds to what was a 0.9 Pillar catch to start with.