Commissioner? God? Not much difference thanks to this NFL rule | Weird Rules

If something occurs during an NFL game that is "palpably unfair," the officials can use their judgment to rectify the situation however they see fit, whether it be moving the placement of the ball, awarding points to a team, etc. Should something "extraordinarily" unfair occur, well, the almighty commissioner can step in with powers that no know bounds -- up to and including flipping a game's result or ordering everyone back to the playing field. What in the world could evoke the desire for such drastic measures?
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[@Therecreep]

The funniest part about the Snowplow game, is that the snowplow driver was actually on a prison-release work crew working maintenance at Foxborough, and after the game he said: "I'm on a prison work crew, if someone tells me to do something, I'm doing it."

[@technoturnovers7072]

Yeah, what should have happened is that the NFL Officials/refs should have alerted the stadium management so they could countermand that order

[@ShakeItLittleTina]

Rodger Goodell: *exists* NFL Fans: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@ShakeItLittleTina]

I mean rightfully so but it’s still pretty funny

[@Baseballbat95]

If he didn't suspend players for no reason I wouldn't do that

[@EduardoNevesSilva]

The Draft's around the corner. Get your boos ready!

[@onionbreath002]

I think of all the horrifically unrealistic moments in Draft Day, the most jarring one is the part where Roger Goodell isn't booed mercilessly when introduced on stage at the draft.

[@callerfizz]

Going to the NFL draft was great because it didnt matter what jersey was on each persons back, no matter who they were supporting, EVERYONE booed Goodell

[@grantconnolly4628]

Oh yikes the players being sick idea didnt age very well

[@sherk3286]

Oh now it really didnt age well thanks aaron rodgers

[@Ofallthings089]

@Anunoriginaljoke COVID

[@oz_jones]

Yikes, almost 400 tards liked this comment

[@jackson_stallings]

@@sherk3286 aaron rodgers been right about not getting the vax, sorry man

[@brownmamba6339]

BREAKING NEWS: Roger Goodell Establishes New Rule! Rule 3.2.6: No Poopy.

[@Mike__B]

No Poopy rule might be already in place under the uniform rule, the one that says you can't put any unapproved things on your uniform or shoes.

[@jamestrexler6329]

"Rule 3.2.6: No Poopy" needs to go on a shirt.

[@brownmamba6339]

Too late I copyrighted it.

[@Vanilla0729]

Rule 3.2.7: EVER!

[@brownmamba6339]

@@Vanilla0729 lol.

[@ThatPazuzu]

In the Yu-Gi-Oh card game, there is a card combo that requires your opponent to shake your hand. A few people came up with the idea of being stinky and gross so their opponents would rather surrender that game than touch them

[@Seriona1]

What you failed to explain is if you have Unity in your hand, they also have no choice but to shake your hand.

[@imMIB123]

@@Seriona1 and they also didnt mention the way they fixed it was a ruling that says they dont actually have to shake your hand, they just have to consent to the idea of shaking your hand and allow for a hypothetical handshake to occur. a stupid problem requires stupid solutions i suppose.

[@Seriona1]

@@imMIB123 That defeats the purpose of the card.

[@imMIB123]

@@Seriona1 konami has made efforts to dissuade draws and outright ban cards that can cause them too easily. they dont really care about the purpose of some gimmick cards from ages ago.

[@Seriona1]

@@imMIB123 Still, the card exist. I get if it's banned from a tournament.

[@oMassiveattacKo]

That smell bad strat? That's actually a strat in Yu-Gi-Oh card tournaments that recently had a rule placed on it.

[@gregdevries9811]

I'm not sure if that was a strategy or just the nature of Yu-Gi-Oh players

[@LucaBl]

"Strategy"

[@kingolight]

I was gonna say the same thing my brother plays and they just added to the rule book you can get DQ'd for poor hygiene like you said

[@kingolight]

@@gregdevries9811 No its def a strategy my brother plays and all his friends shower except if they are going to a tournament he showers anyway tho so hes the real mvp

[@SimuLord]

Well, sure, but one man's common sense is another man's "dude, it's Yu-Gi-Oh."

[@BattlePants321]

Nice to see Seth wearing a shirt that says "basketball." He's such a big fan!

[@Goooodawgs561]

He likes the way they dribble up and down the court

[@BattlePants321]

Also now that I've got all 20-something of you here LEBRON BLOCK REWINDER LEBRON BLOCK REWINDER LEBRON BLOCK REWINDER LEBRON BLOCK REWINDER...please. Also HELMET CATCH REWINDER HELMET CATCH REWINDER HELMET CATCH REWINDER...thank you.

[@astashasta1]

Michael Adams lmao what?

[@Goooodawgs561]

matt M I’m very tempted to just copy and paste his comment to be a smartass

[@broseffman]

*Rule 3.2.6* *No poopie.* "What does that mean?" "You should know what that means."

[@drygnfyre]

Here's a weird rule: during the 1970s, the A's used to have "designated runners" who never played any position, they would only show up late in the game to be base runners. They'd hire track-and-field stars and only teach them when to attempt to steal a base. Since baseball allows pinch runners, this is not against the rules. But if the game went into extra innings, those runners might have to end up batting, so the practice died off.

[@rogerszmodis]

Baseball and football are full of extremely specialized niche situation players who aren’t even backup to the backup’s backup level but still have a job because they can do one thing.

[@gabet5053]

"President Rosenthal, the Pats are committing Bioligical warfare to go 16-0 again."

[@jacktadema1692]

There's only one thing that can stop this; Helmet Catch 2: Electric Boogaloo

[@hirshja]

As a patriots fan, I laughed.

[@kylehidalgo926]

There’s a meme about this happening this NFL season with Stephon Gilmore shaking hands with Chiefs players after testing positive for covid

[@wyatthill6252]

@@jacktadema1692 I was gonna say Mario Manninghams catch but that wasn't a helmet catch

[@IAmAlpharius20]

@@jacktadema1692 "no, we need something better....deploy Project Foles!"

[@natemarx4999]

It's funny how hateable Goodell is universally.

[@Goooodawgs561]

Ohhhh we love adverbs

[@AnonymousRandomGuy006]

Steven Soco Thugs? Athletes are thugs now?

[@puddlespuddles5208]

Yea words fail to properly showcase how irritatingly tone deaf, stupid, and asinine that douche is.

[@illusioNery]

Andre Neale yes, they are Jk, but still, with everything in life, you have a few bad apples that ruin it for everyone else

[@IntoTheVoid96]

Gary Bettman of the NHL is hated even more.

[@12packersfan]

If Roger Goodell was God, I’d stop going to church on Sundays

[@thepetrancuripetrancuris2253]

12 PackersFan I’d be an atheist

[@stenchtoast3964]

Goodell loves the goat so you know he's eats babies with Robert Kraft....why would you believe the nfl is not a manipulated game?

[@bigcanok26c86]

12 PackersFan u should have more likes

[@jalent8612]

Why go to church in the first place

[@JayLandon64]

If Roger Goodell was God, then God would actually exist and would be able to actually affect anything.

[@PavarottiAardvark]

Weird Rules Suggestion: In the 1990s, Field Hockey had an arms race between rules writers and stick designers to prevent defenders and goalkeepers using weird shapes with huge surface areas. At one point the rule said that it only had to be able to slide through a 2" ring, leading to designs where the 2" handle zig-zagged back and forth repeatedly....

[@psikot]

COVID NFL rule: sickness is ok we have ad space to sell.

[@harposhi]

Rodger Goodell: exists Everybody on the Saints after the no-call: DO SOMETHIIIIIIIING!!!!! SOMETHING USEFULLLLLL!!!!!

[@alexanderscott3790]

Saints NO CALL.. AAAAND the KC /Brady FANTOM Roughing the passer call BOTH!!! League playoff SCRIPTING (including recent Tiger Masters/ everyone hit balls in water and just collapsed around him,HANDING him the win!!!!-19 majors WILL HAPPEN!) , IS NOW A THING!!😡🤬🤬 ..not just boxing, figure skating, and horseracing anymore! OH NO!! SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT its now called!! that's a shame

[@WarpedHorizon]

@@alexanderscott3790 You should turn off your phone and go on a long walk in a forest.

[@holocade4908]

@@alexanderscott3790 Get a job weirdo.

[@AustinHansen]

#rememberbountygate

[@MaySpitfire]

@@alexanderscott3790 illuminate confirmed?

[@A_Herding_Corgi]

I mean I'm not a Saints fan, but it wasn't "Just a blown call", those refs were temporarily blind.

[@andrewgrove1691]

Same crew from the steelers chargers game who blew a false start call

[@Coregamer6]

A Herding Corgi the saints choked

[@n01928]

Seriously. I'm not even a Saints fan but its borderline criminal to call it "just another blown call". This one warrants them stopping the video and showing him the play in context. We need to enact the extraordinarily unfair rule on this video.

[@Goooodawgs561]

It was a horrendous call but what we’re not gonna do is gloss over the fact that they still could have won had Drew Brees not thrown an interception in overtime

[@kingolight]

Yeah but there was a missed pass interference call on the saints the previous drive missed calls happen all the time its part of the game.

[@jCouzito]

No one: Don Shula: That’s palpably unfair. Saints fans: EXTRAORDINARILY UNFAIRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Emilbemstrom52]

6:57 corona is extraordinary unfair

[@TrevorNeece]

Look into the oddly specific and brutal rule about what happens if a team refuses a pick of a side of the coin during the flip

[@alexharvey6522]

What is it?

[@timeluster]

@@alexharvey6522 Lose 15 yards from point of kick off and lose all further coin-toss options including in overtime.

[@feddyvonwigglestein3481]

@@timeluster To think that there's a precedent for such a rule to need to exist...

[@mistacole1335]

I just looked that up, that's actually pretty funny. What would be the point of refusing to pick a side of the coin? Just to be edgy?

[@WoodysGamertag]

You guys made it through this entire video without an Air Bud reference? It would have been perfect.

[@br-jj6re]

Funny joke Woodster, I banged hope

[@kyledrexel]

Lol. The "palpably unfair hygiene" exception was already pioneered by me. In high school, as a wrestler, I'd eat a whole bag of "funions" before a match and breathe on my opponent during the tie-ups. They'd wretch, and boom, takedown.

[@theirongiant5112]

Same, in the middle of my match man goes damn you stink 😂. Pinned him 15 seconds later lol

[@davidlieber5807]

1:46 wait, so they can give a single point to a team? SOMEBODY CALL JON SCORIGAMI IS A LIEEEE

[@Eric-pg6qc]

David Lieber it’s just a new category of forbidden scoragami

[@lightyagami3492]

@@Eric-pg6qc yeah but he didn't mention it in his video

[@TheBoxOfCreativity]

Yeah you can get a 1 point safety

[@PaTRpU99]

David Lieber It’s part of scorigami

[@goodmaro]

No, they can't award an arbitrary number of points. The equitable penalty rules (which apply to unfair acts in all the major codes, not just NFL's) allow for the award of a score if a team is deprived of one by an unfair act. So it has to be a score that could've come up in that play. But these "God" decisions are very rare in American and Canadian football. Know where they aren't so rare? Rugby. In rugby the referee can award a score if an illegal act -- really any rules violation -- deprived a team of a "probable" one; in American and Canadian football, it has to be a damn near certainty that they would've scored had it not been for a cheat of a kind that doesn't ordinarily come up in play.

[@loganbrown6625]

"Some" pass interference

[@jg7102]

Logan Brown “some” cry babies 😢

[@australiaisntreal2727]

Saints fans deserved it

[@loganbrown6625]

@@australiaisntreal2727 Whhhy?

[@australiaisntreal2727]

Logan Brown I don’t want to start a fight here and I’ll have you know saints are actually my second favorite team but I’m a steeler fans and when that terrible joe Haden pi called was made that gave them a free touch down saints fans kept telling me “good teams overcome bad calls” and it was really annoying

[@australiaisntreal2727]

Logan Brown and if we would have win we would have been in the playoffs so rip

[@pl412]

I have never not once in my life watched a singular minute of football. Why am I here? Why is this so entertaining?

[@maciejknap6284]

Monstars vs Looney Tunes was *cosmically unfair*. And guess what? Stern didn't call that.

[@theleftuprightatsoldierfield]

The Looney Tunes won, so it didn’t really matter

[@EmissaryMark]

Love the series. Just binge watched all of the weird rules videos. I know of a ton of these as content suggestions, but to start with, the Durnan rule in the NHL about goaltender captains is fun. He used to get his team unscheduled time outs by leaving his crease to talk to the refs about a call, often at important times in the game. Or often enough that there's a rule, anyway.

[@matthewjosephthecommonsens2940]

"Byzantine" great vocab word as an adjective

[@leaffinite3828]

Its like saying something is philistine. Its an allusion.

[@johnnyraymond429]

If I remember correctly, after the Patriots kicked their field goal, the Dolphins moved the ball downfield and attempted to kick a field goal. At that point, the Patriots offered to plow a spot for the Dolphins holder to place the ball on dry ground, but Don Shula refused and the kicker missed the attempt. I don't see how using the snowplow would be "palpably" unfair if the Dolphins came into a situation where they could have had the ground plowed in the exact same way, were offered the opportunity to do so, and just refused to. I guess if the Dolphins were trying a longer field goal, they could try arguing that the snowplow shouldn't have been used at all, and neither team should have scored, but that's stretching it a little, since using the snowplow in such manner wasn't yet specifically against the rules.

[@RyBrown]

Johnny Raymond That seems fair enough so I’ll take your word for it because I don’t want to take the time to look that up. :)

[@skimshady510]

Yeah so - that didn't actually happen. At all. The Dolphins were picked off in the subsequent drive, game ended. And the guy driving the snowplow, Mark Henderson (who, incidentally, was a convict on work release), said afterwards that had that exact situation come up, he would've hid himself and his tractor to prevent Don Shula from finding him. XD

[@jong1612]

“A little helmet to helmet contact”...ok

[@n01928]

That's like totaling your car and calling it a fender bender.

[@natec8435]

I like to think Seth went back and watched the NFC championship footage, then said: “ok, yeah that’s extraordinarily unfair”

[@Nickyyy-]

It wasn't tho

[@iamrichrocker]

You guys embarrass ESPN with your integrity in reporting...

[@isays]

I love how Seth is like "if everyone on the other team is really really _really_ sick and barely able to stand, thats an extraordinarily unfair advantage _for them_ " lol

[@Cthulhu3C]

Yeah that aged poorly

[@oz_jones]

@@Cthulhu3C no it didnt you tard

[@oz_jones]

​@@Cthulhu3Cno it didnt

[@bombmac5163]

Fairly recently, Yugiho tournaments have enacted a rule that all players must maintain a certain level of cleanliness (I don’t know what it “clean enough”)

[@thirdeyesockeye6843]

Re: Seth's idea at the end, Mark Schlereth used to piss himself on the Broncos. A legend

[@ssother6964]

Came here to say this!

[@kicking222]

I never, ever read SB Nation, but maaaaaaaaaaan, Weird Rules and Chart Party are two of the best series on KZbin. They're always so fascinating and so well-produced.

[@WickerMan504]

"Helmet to helmet pass interference that wasn't called" is an interesting way of describing the situation that occurred in the Saints vs Rams game. It's technically correct but far from the full story.

[@braedenbrown2138]

WickerMan504 just completely dismisses the fact that the saints would’ve won the game if it was called but since it wasn’t the rams get another chance.

[@austinseals7728]

People act like the saints no call wasn’t one of, if not, the worst blown call in NFL history. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@jackonotobacco5288]

It was.

[@catherinestickels2591]

It was pretty bad for how high-profile it was, but it was a far cry from the worst.

[@georgeedgar9300]

When he said “blown calls happen every game” like this game didn’t decide a teams chance at a super bowl

[@GOD-ti9xp]

George Edgar -Wha wha

[@georgeedgar9300]

GOD What do you mean

[@GOD-ti9xp]

George Edgar 😓

[@GOD-ti9xp]

George Edgar Saints played their own rule when it came to bad calls in that NFC championship game. So don’t kid yourself

[@georgeedgar9300]

GOD I’m trying to say it made me mad that he just made it seem like it wasn’t a big deal like how blown calls don’t matter I know that had other chances but a blown call to put you in the super is a very important blown call

[@jjmusicandmagic]

I've watched several of these videos of explaining weird situations to people. There was a playoff game that Anfy Dalton started against the Texans which he had started more games at NRG than all active Texans quarterbacks at the time. Andy started games there in high school and in bowl games for TCU, while the Texan quarterbacks were all injured and had Jake Delhome and Jeff Garcia on the active roster.

[@sasha1O1]

It wasn't just helmet to helmet the safety was all over the WR it wasn't even a question of pass interference

[@COSMOKRAT_616]

Basically tackled the reciever while the pass was in the air. And the official that "missed" the call, used to play for the rams...shaddy AF.

[@ctboss0044]

Sasha's Games FACTS

[@Bucboy1001]

It would be considered assault and battery in 3 states

[@Nickyyy-]

Wasn't even PI on the Rams Tommy Lee ran into the defender lol

[@philipkelly7369]

gee saints fans, I wonder what having the refs miss something is like, it's not like that's ever happened to ANY other team, riiiiiiight??

[@redbeard5939]

6:55 ...seems a lot more possible now

[@abfnjewbgalr]

The being sick part has a completely new meaning now lmao

[@oz_jones]

No it doesnt

[@Nemo-kk7qg]

Not only would Belichick smear his players in poo to gain a competitive advantage - he would probably include "willingness to be smeared in poo" into all future player evaluations. XD

[@nmbr1seattlefan]

Your statement at 7:00 ain’t looking to hot now 😂

[@jackdiack6450]

6:30 is Mark Schlereth. His nickname was literally stink

[@evancornell5820]

Ah man i remember dude talking on nfl network about how hed piss himself on the field. I cant see him as an analyst without thinking about that.

[@benr10]

You forgot to mention that the snowplow guy was a convict who was out from prison for the day!

[@kingolight]

Actually the Dolphins drove down the field and had a chance for a field goal and Shula elected to go for it so its really not that unfair he just made a dumb call to go for it.

[@thomasrock4520]

@@kingolight no because he did it because it was snowy not knowing he would clear it

[@kingolight]

@@thomasrock4520 No actually the Refs gave him the opportunity to plow a path but he said no

[@skimshady510]

@@kingolight So what actually happened is that they made it to the Patriots' 20 with a minute left. They ran it on 1st down, threw incomplete on 2nd down, and on 3rd down, got intercepted. Shula was never given an opportunity to use the snowplow - had it gotten to 4th down, that probably would've become a point of discussion. Unless you're arguing that Shula should've settled for a 33-yard field goal with 1st down and a minute left (in blizzard conditions, remember), then no, it wasn't a dumb call. Also, Mark Henderson, the convict on work-release driving the snowplow, said that had that situation arisen, he would've hidden himself and the snowplow so the officials couldn't find him. :D

[@stillvisionsmusic]

Dunno about football but poker tables I’ve seen have hygiene and scent rules. One had an oddly-specific “blowing cigar smoke” rule.

[@purplefood1]

People watching too many movies.

[@roguishpaladin]

To be fair, if I were to think of a competitive event where I would expect an unsavory opponent to blow cigar smoke in my face, poker would be it. Well, that or Monopoly.

[@stillvisionsmusic]

roguishpaladin true enough; if there’s any sport where pissing off an opponent to gain an advantage is a thing, poker would be it.

[@roguishpaladin]

@@stillvisionsmusic That may be true, but that's true for a lot of competition. Cigars also have an unspoken association with wealth as well, plus, unlike athletic competition, poker players don't need to worry about their lung capacity and health to compete.

[@willpicou9828]

Saints fans:WE NEED A REMATCH NFL: Ok we messed up week 2 have a rematch Rams:😳

[@grayebarb6022]

It would be so awesome if the saints smacked the rams in their house

[@BeastlyJay22]

@@grayebarb6022 Damn Straight

[@australiaisntreal2727]

Watching saints fan get screws by a bad call was the best karma ever

[@willpicou9828]

Australia Isn’t real for what? Bounty gate? Wasn’t the Minnesota miracle enough?

[@australiaisntreal2727]

Free WILLY I have nothing against the saints as an organization the fans were really toxic and cocky when the Steelers got that terrible pi that not only gave them a touchdown it also would have given us the ball but once again nothing against the organization the fans were just being dicks

[@nmarkert01]

The snow plow is at Foxboro still hanging in the Patriots HOF. Also the guy who drove the plow was a guy on work release from the prison. Good times. 😂

[@DiggyDougSauce94]

"It was just a blown call nothing crazy here" > has never seen the play AMAZING analysis here.

[@jonathantitterington6221]

Had a goalie for my floor hockey team that had a family of skunks living under his house. The skunks also sprayed his equipment bag, liberally. For multiple games I didn't have to worry about clearing the front of the net for him. His stench did it for me.

[@zbe4l165]

can't spell goodell without saying Go Odell

[@rebel1608]

Seth, 2019: "The extraordinarily unfair thing is to be super sick and contagious" 2020: *monkey paw curls*

[@oz_jones]

🤡

[@joshvanriet5445]

"Highly contagious" Well that didn't age well. Especially with so many people refusing to wear masks or even get vaccinated in the top tiers of sports.

[@StarTropicsKing]

The sad thing is I wouldn’t put it past the patriots to cover themselves in feces to win a game.

[@Nickyyy-]

Not like the Pats need help winning games tho...

[@connierobinson1090]

The end did not age well

[@kopkl1]

This rule basically cancels out the ‘air bud rule’ which is basically ‘there’s no rule in the book that says I can’t do this’

[@smoov22_sonic]

So Jerry Jones is our overlord huh?

[@sherlockcrackrock]

smoov22 john Dorsey is the second coming

[@DanielWalters]

@6:51 Covid-19 Rules for the NFL 2020 Season. Already written.

[@bluntizard4481]

Forgotten about Snowplowgate game : Shula had the chance to use the snowplow and didn't, then whined "unfair!"

[@jdore8]

Your animators are exceptionally good.

[@bazzakrak]

Hmmm... playing while sick, wonder if a team will put a player with covid-19 on the pitch now.

[@hadzicrae5364]

Here I am watching 2 men giggle over the word ‘poopie’

[@baoboumusic]

No poopy.

[@techpriestsalok8119]

6:31 that’s actually a thing in Blood Bowl. The Nurgle teams (they worship the god of decay and disease) have a special rule where sometimes the opposing player will be so grossed out that they refuse to attempt a tackle.

[@cameronaxelrod1853]

Would the extraordinary really unfair rule apply to the Fail Mary game between the Packers and Seahawks

[@DoobieKeebler]

No. Because it didn't apply to the pass interference against Crabtree in the NFC Championship Game Vs Sherman And it didn't count when the Chiefs held the **** out of Bosa so that Hill could get open. Hell, Madden should make *THAT* a play.... stop all the stupid nano blitzing. SMDH.

[@fettywap9857]

Do Thierry Henry vs the entire nation of ireland

[@ehance3754]

The smell bad strategy has already been tried in an even more extreme way. Defensive lineman for the Cowboys Leon Lett used to literally piss himself every game so the o-line wouldn't want to guard him.

[@SuperNuclearUnicorn]

"hey, you guys can't do that! There's no rules so I get to decide and honestly I think this deserves your entire franchise to be sold to another city

[@realKastorena]

This sounds like something Vince McMahon would do

[@i_i8924]

Vince McMahon didn't screw Stone Cold Steve Austin, Stone Cold screwed Stone Cold!

[@philipchapman250]

@@i_i8924 That is also what he said about Bret Hart

[@rebeccatrishel]

Speaking of using illness to dissuade opponents, there have been multiple outbreaks of mumps in the NHL. They quarantined players, but as non-symptomatic people can be contagious, it kept spreading. I wonder if opposing teams would avoid getting too close if they knew that their teams had mumps cases.

[@captainamerica2521]

Shula: this is unfair Rozelle: *well yes but actually no*

[@JaysonMcLeod]

The palpably unfair rule makes sense. Like I think of that game where the kid runs from the side line and makes a tackle. I mean under the rules it’s too many men and what. He’s tackled and the get a 10 yard penalty or whatever. Gotta have a rule that gives you flexibility. Assuming it maintains accountability

[@brandonthomas3749]

Man don’t let Elena Bergeron hear that blasphemy 5:44

[@Zack-wq2hl]

Watching this in 2020... is a team gonna go on the field with COVID-19 as an advantage and it will be called extraordinarily unfair

[@MrEZE36]

How about adding a rule as Patriotly unfair? Snow plow game, Spygate, Deflategate etc.

[@kaneohalloran8586]

Ryan and Seth my favourite combo

[@122ericbelcher]

We had a lineman who never washed his equipment in highschool for that exact reason. It was gag inducing.

[@screensaves]

this is probably my fav episode so far 😭

[@kapten-awesome]

This is one of the best things on youtube!

[@nickdarr7328]

The Patriots went more slick than how they describe the snow plow incident. I'm sure you notice during snow games the out of bounds, end zone lines, and 10 yard lines are cleared constantly. Usually with a leaf blower. This game they had a lawn mower with a plow. A ground keeper is clearing a 10 yard marker but cruises 2 yards away from the yard line to clear a spot for the holder so it made a big bump out on the field from wear he started. The Patriots acted like he just wasn't paying attention

[@helgrenze]

You should do one of these for Nascar. Look into the career of Smokey Yunick and the rules changes from his "innovations".

[@aidancharde2056]

I do just want to point out that the "helmet to helmet pass interference" no call in the Saints game did directly affect the chance of the Saints going to the Super Bowl. I know that "they could've done it in OT" and all that bullshit but the point is the game never should have gone to OT in the first place!

[@AP-id9ji]

Players have admitted to pissing themselves during games for specifically the reason of trying to prevent other players from blocking or tackling them

[@stevenewsom3269]

The NFL has a bad rule? I'm SHOCKED Almost every rule change of the last 15 years or so has been detrimental to the game...

[@jameshughes6670]

Haha smallpox wouldn’t that be a riot...imagine if a player had a SUPER contagious disease and knew about it and still went out to play? Imagine if they skipped some sort of testing and were able to sneak out onto the field? Boy, that would be wild huh. Good thing our reality isn’t that demented. Right?

[@KSTONEY11011]

Kinda crazy we got to see the scenario of what life would be like if an entire team had a contagious sickness lol

[@randomdude4769]

That ASMR outro 😂

[@TheForeverRanger]

An instance where it should have been used but wasn't was when Tomlin got in the way of the Ravens return man. If Tomlin doesn't do that, the Ravens score a TD.

[@TRB3027]

Tomlin is a jackass along with everyone else in the Steelers organization

[@andrewgrove1691]

Didnt happen

[@j.a.greene3523]

They ended up scoring on that drive anyway, and ended up winning the game. At least that's what I remember.

[@patrickmcdaniel2048]

That was Herm Edwards that blocked a field goal at the goal post. That's when they came up with field goals can only be contested from the line of scrimmage

[@MaxwellGriffin001]

6.32 - This actually has been done regularly by an MMA fighter named Shonie Carter. He was a striker and would routinely go a week or so without bathing before a fight. Not only does it make him smell bad, it also made his skin greasy and more difficult to grapple with.

[@JoseDiaz-wk2tw]

blown call that gave the Rams a second chance to win the game, it's amazing how everyone dismisses the complaint.

[@JoseDiaz-wk2tw]

Mark Davis there’s plenty of blown calls, no one is denying that, and everyone understands it’s part of the game, but a call that bad, so obvious should never happen, especially in a game with a trip to the superbowl on the line. Wtf is the ref paid to do? Make calls, and calls that obvious should be called 100% of the time. Worst part of all is that if that call was made, the Saints would’ve run out the clock kicked a field goal and won the game. There’s obviously going to be outrage over that, that call didn’t just hurt the game, it hurt legacy. Bottom line, all NFL fans should be outraged that a blown call that obvious was missed in a championship game. Even a non fan makes that call.

[@Krillinish2]

Can you talk about how the new Charlotte Hornets somehow “inherited” the 1988-2002 history/stats of the New Orleans Hornets/Pelicans franchise and it’s just simply accepted like nothing happened?

[@ZaoJin]

welp, they made a movie about it

[@danhaller4383]

I can’t stand Goodell, but the fact he could have immediately put a stop to the “hold everyone on the punt, run out of Endzone to end the game” or “the patriots/Titans delay of game - false start - delay of game” moments, but didn’t, even when he had the written power and authority to do so, is actually quite impressive for him

[@kanyes_buggod]

You guys should do the 2002 MLB World Series for Rewind

[@TheSword1235]

Like if they should start a "Weird Record" series in which they go through the weirdest records that individuals hold in different sports

[@Alex__Blocker]

TheSword1235 Check out five points videos for them

[@TheSword1235]

@@Alex__Blocker I did, that's how I got the idea. I mean like what they do with rules but with the records

[@asabrunk47]

This video was wholly hilarious

[@robertmccleery859]

I learned about this after the Fail Mary, which is to me the most obvious case where it would have made sense to use these rules.

[@julianbell9161]

Mark Schlereth definitely has broken the no poopy rule

[@nobodysbusinezz]

Hey! There were some weird rules in Curry's last game of his regular season. I love the story and I know it as one of the weirdest games in NBA history.

[@monity1865]

Like Seth was talking about: There actually was a guy in MMA who didn't shower his entire training camp before his fight. He ended up losing.

[@kylehidalgo926]

Disappointed that they didn’t mention deflate gate or spy gate for this. That’s the type of cheating that I could actually see justifying a game being replayed