The infinite timeout loophole that almost broke the 1976 NBA Finals | Weird Rules

The Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns faced off in the 1976 NBA Finals, and with the game in double overtime the Suns did something so genius that it seemed idiotic. But really, they just knew the rules. They called a timeout they didn't have, and were assessed with a technical foul, but it allowed them to inbound the ball from half court instead of under their own basket. With just 1 second left, this meant they had a better chance to get a shot off, and without knowing how to break the rules in your favor, it never would've worked.
Watch the video to find out what happened after that, and also why a fan fought a referee in the middle of all of this.
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[@Mistershongmail]

NBA refs hate this one weird trick!

[@jwvideos7011]

You guys should review the Sharon Peters rule in NFL locker rooms next.

[@BlazeSLK]

This comment will always be funny. I said the same thing on the “infinite fouls” video

[@Shakshuka69]

(James Harden's search history)

[@BombDrop]

15 pictures taken shortly before a poster happened, number 8 will surprise you

[@anthonyledington3143]

667

[@CodyHeredia]

Little did they know that in 1976, they were setting in motion a large chain of events that would ultimately culminate with me blowing a game of NBA 2k because I didn't realize I had no timeouts left.

[@ViolentMLG]

Honestly if you really do think about that, its kind of crazy. Imagine people in 1976 that gaming is what it is today, let alone that you can play a basketball game like we can today, and a rule change would make some kid lose one day lmao

[@gabeyarris5978]

@False Flag if the score is tied with a second left in the game and they just scored, you call a timeout so you don’t have to shoot a full court shot.

[@alejandrojimenez108]

Yo I was the 1000th like, thats hype

[@Adrian-gp7me]

@False Flag if the other team got takeover call a time out to shorten it.

[@1510Mace]

😭😭😭

[@davidhayden4743]

No 3-point line in 1976. Being down 3 points with one second would be a very big deal.

[@tomvolz3760]

I was just about to say this when Seth said he’d let the Celtics take two shots. Being down by three with one second left was like being down by four in the same spot today, in that it is theorically possible to tie the game, but highly unlikely.

[@jezusghoti]

There are always glaring factual errors or vital information they just forget/ignore in these videos.

[@ceromiedo2620]

David Hayden the Celtics were down 1 before he made that shot

[@TheTwoPhillips]

@@tomvolz3760 yeap, brain fart on my part

[@a.yhprumnadia5646]

@@tomvolz3760 easier to get an and 1 vs a 4 point play

[@kristianutomotobing9719]

Coach : we need a time out Shaq : on it *Proceed to break the ring* Coach : Nice

[@wanderlustwarrior]

Ring?

[@shazilnaeem9501]

@@wanderlustwarrior i think he means ring

[@Lightsworndark-]

shazil Naeem ring? Lol I know you guys tried to say rim

[@Lightsworndark-]

Or backboard

[@c1aser]

The Lightsworn Boss I think he meant ring

[@MusicBent]

This seems like exactly the thing Bill Belichic would do if he coached basketball

[@mrmacross]

Or John Harbaugh with his intentional holding penalties in order to ice games.

[@MusicBent]

Bill has called an intentional safety once or twice. He also invented a few plays were offensive tackles were eligible, where receivers weren’t, everyone lined up in strange ways, etc. Bent that rule in a way no one expected. Not sure if he exploited at rule that poorly thought out though.

[@rubengarciapulido6271]

Him and Greg poppavich

[@kevinmoynihan5118]

The tackle eligible reliever ineligible play was not exploiting a poorly written rule. He was just the first one to think of that strategy and honestly I don’t think they should have made such a reactionary rule because nobody could stop it at first. They should have let teams figure it out it would have added to the strategy of the game.

[@MusicBent]

Kevin Moynihan I totally agree. did they change a rule because of that?

[@aziris7257]

Coach: I call a timeout. Ref: You can't do that, you're out of timeouts. Coach: You're right. I call a timeout. Ref: Okay.

[@Moshuun]

Oh, basketball used to be Yu-Gi-Oh??

[@harithwaseem8468]

Yeah basically

[@Nou45628]

Lol

[@leonardovergara5620]

Basketball was not expecting Yu-Gi-Oh.

[@SyxxPunk]

@@leonardovergara5620 Imagine training for arc shots and passing, and you're suddenly confronted by the Winged Dragon of Ra.

[@EonArashi]

@@SyxxPunk "Coach, we're down ten with five minutes left in the third quarter!" "All right. Blue-Eyes White Dragon, you're in." "*loud angry dragon noises*"

[@TheVirtualBomb]

Chris Webber made multiple accounts just to dislike this video

[@worstreviewedgamer5913]

TheVirtualBomb fab5 is way I clicked on the video

[@actionentertainmentnow]

😭😭😭

[@chrisanwatchmework8233]

That's funny man, most of these people probably have no clue what u are referring to... Webber an the Mich time out with no time outs... Awesome sports moment........

[@eamonwright7488]

Bravo! First thing that made me lol in a while. Cheers!

[@jordan8199]

@@chrisanwatchmework8233 c webbs timeout isnt some indie rock band from croatia lol everyone over 30 or anyone who watches espn knows about it. Did you know an assistant coach was telling him to call it from the sideline?

[@MrJethroha]

If that rule had been noticed in our times, the NBA probably would've kept it to pad out ad space in the final minutes of the game

[@Jared7873]

True 😴

[@JonatasAdoM]

infinite ads! Volleyball has no timer so I can't even imagine how bad it must be with all the ads.

[@rayhs1984]

Have you heard of the "Germany Shaefer rule" in baseball? (Rule 7.08i) It stops people from running the bases clockwise. In 1911 trying a double steal with a man on 3rd he stole 2nd and then on the next pitch stole 1st trying to draw a throw.

[@whoofianbrony8804]

Just read up on this guy. There needs to be a weird rules episode for him... Like seriously it's too perfect

[@Nyfelt]

No one cares about baseball, they said it on SB

[@PatrickFussy]

Emil Willersjö A lot of people care about baseball as a matter of fact.

[@lightyagami3492]

Bruh this needs to be a video 😂😂😂💀💀

[@rayhs1984]

@@whoofianbrony8804 yeah it seems like he was a fun guy, accounts vary but it is believed he tried to do it multiple times

[@PavarottiAardvark]

Weird rules from F1 motor racing: There was a "no moveable aero parts" rule, but there was nothing saying that a driver couldn't block a part with his body, leaving to the "F-Duct" There was a rule prohibiting 'fully enclosed holes" in the floor of the car's aerodynamics, but one team argued that as holes were non-existant emptry spaces, the holes in their car weren't part of their car....

[@Mostlyharmless1985]

PavarottiAardvark F1is the epitome of airbud gamesmanship.

[@jarradchapman4271]

Cheating in racing could be its own side series. Especially with Smokey Yunick.

[@KC1996LFC]

The Creation of the Famous Brabham BT46 'fan car' exploited a rule that meant stated that devices such as fans with the primary purpose of providing a grip advantage (mechanical/aerodynamic) could not be used, however they made it so that the primary purpose of the fan was to cool the engine/gearbox, therefore, exploiting the rule and creating a car that dominated the one race it entered.

[@jonasnisse4257]

@@Mostlyharmless1985 except Ferrari's whining that Mercedes have an illegal car when they had perfectly legal one.

[@PavarottiAardvark]

@@KC1996LFC What I love about the fan car is how blatant it was. The rules had no way of determining what "primary" meant, so they were able to get away with it even though the cooling effect was minimal at best....

[@francoeurtim]

Weird Rules: a few years ago a goalie in the American Hockey League names David Leggio was facing a 2-on-0 and rather than face it, he turned around and knocked his own net off its moorings. This results in a penalty shot which he stops. The AHL immediately passes a rule making this play result in an automatic goal, problem solved. A few years later, David Leggio is playing in Germany and DOES THE EXACT SAME THING AGAIN.

[@hermixtonen]

Ha! I just posted this same thing , then scrolled down and saw that you had done it

[@hhscadets0925]

Not entirely true. You're thinking of the DEL (German hockey league). They implemented a rule saying if a goalie intentionally dislodges the net, it's an automatic goal. In the AHL, the goalie now gets a game misconduct and the penalty shot is still taken.

[@--_--IMP--_--]

Wait, how can you have a 2-on-0 situation if the goalie is present and involved in said situation? The numbers indicate that a 2-on-0 can only happen with an empty net. You did mean 2-on-1, right?

[@justinc2633]

@@--_--IMP--_-- u dont count the goalie when referring to the amount of defenders...

[@--_--IMP--_--]

That's just weird. Even if that were true, that makes absolutely no sense. Why wouldn't you count the goalie when referring to the amount of defenders? Goalies are defenders, in every sense of the term. Why would they not be counted as defenders, in any scenario? Is that a hockey thing? I don't pay any attention to hockey, so I wouldn't know. I know I've never experienced that in all of the years that I played soccer. I have never heard of a goalie not being counted as a defender in these kinds of situations in any sport with a goalie, since the goalie is, in fact, a defender, by definition. I'm not saying they actually are, but this is the kind of stuff that makes sports fans look dumb, and rightfully so. :/

[@1nown]

What if I told you there was a weird rule in cricket that was exploited so viciously that it became a national political incident and tarnished the reputations of those involved for the rest of their lives. I propose to you underarm bowling. 1981.

[@nedisahonkey]

What if I told you that as interesting as that may be, that they will never cover cricket because... Well I think you know why.

[@failtolawl]

Lmao cricket

[@clamstain]

@@nedisahonkeyIn the immortal words of Raphael, to Casey Jones, "You gotta know what a crumpet is to play cricket."

[@1nown]

@@nedisahonkey I could make a joke about Louisiana but yeah. Australians kinda want to pretend it never happened, too. There's hope for SB Nation, though. They covered 'soccer'.

[@amlansanyal9663]

You can't do that Greg

[@agentdisast3r]

How about that weird Bulls team rule that prevented players from wearing headbands? Lol

[@JC-zj2is]

Someone already made a video on that

[@DatBoyIsAvirgin]

Javi Chavez but SB hasn’t

[@aexandrosdesylas510]

Andy hoops did

[@Wholeshowtv]

Jerry Sloan had the same rule in Utah.

[@terrencecarter1915]

What? Why?

[@DavidWilliamsaz]

The Suns made it to the Finals in 1993 and had a triple overtime game in Chicago. Paul Westphal was a Suns player in 1976 and their coach in 1993. After winning the triple overtime game Westphal said the good guys won this time.

[@cpfalcon51]

I have a feeling that professional basketball in the 70's was more similar to Will Farrell's "Semi-Pro" than people realize (not just the ABA, but the NBA as well).

[@markjones952]

Basketball is my favorite sport. I like the way they dribble up and down the court.

[@thatguyluis]

I knew even before opening the video I would see this comment 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Jared7873]

@@thatguyluis 😥

[@Jared7873]

😥

[@greatomeister675]

You copied this from something..

[@sjnavaid]

Bow wow

[@Gengar094]

One of my favourite weird rules is the Italy vs England rugby game where Italy refused to ruck after the tackle and so could technically play offside. The whole England team had no idea what to do.

[@ethannguyen2754]

Me: *clicks on video because loophole funny KZbin: You must love basketball

[@davidclark9520]

This rule was literally just used in Game 6 of this year's finals and I knew about it cuz if this video. What an insane ending!

[@cjinl2428]

...this was not used at all. The rule has changed so that you give up 1 point and also give the OTHER team the ball. It's entirely a bad thing. You watched the game didn't you?

[@davidclark9520]

@@cjinl2428 guess I should clarify. I meant I was surprised I actually saw a team use a timeout when they didn't actually have one in this year's NBA finals, and I immediately thought back to this video and how the rule had since changed from when it happened in the 70s.

[@davidclark9520]

@motmus mom you should hate to be that guy. What information does your reply add to the discussion? I clarified my original harmless comment about how the Warriors used a timeout when they didn't have any and the Raptors got a free throw and posession for it, so why do you need to rub in my face the fact that I could've worded my original comment a little better when I've already explained it and clearly understand what I'm talking about? Nowhere in any of my comments did I say the rule was applied just like it was in the 70s, and I figured anyone who watched this video and watched the finals would presume that I was talking about the updated rule because otherwise my comment would be dumb and not make any sense. I guess I should've expected a pointless arguement from people on the internet who have nothing better to do.

[@fireserpent9854]

@motmus mom What he said made complete sense, it just left out information. The rule was used, as the post mentioned, but the rule has been changed since the 70s. I don’t see how the poster of the comment doesn’t know what he’s talking about, he just forgot to mention that the rule changed.

[@mrmacross]

@@cjinl2428 But for GSW, taking a timeout and losing the ball was still totally worth it. When they called a timeout, they were down one, right after a mad scramble for the ball at midcourt. It was either Draymond was going to have to heave the ball from midcourt while lying on his back, or call a timeout and try to force a turnover or hope Toronto missed some free throws. I think the solution has to be a bigger penalty than just losing possession. It should also come with an automatic runoff of a few seconds, like the NFL does if you try to steal a timeout by faking an injury. There's no way you should ever be able to improve your chances of winning by taking a timeout you don't have.

[@haydenblanchard2006]

all i understood from this video was that if you’re gonna be bad then learn the rules so you can know when and where to break the rules

[@ViolentMLG]

Common sense.

[@selanryn5849]

Be good or be good at it.

[@jeeveso]

Hey Weird Rules! I have one for you, to do with the sport I play Water Polo. Details are a bit vague but I'm sure you could get footage from the right people if you ask. It's a world (or european) championships match between I believe Hungary and Serbia in the late 90s / early 00s. Serbia has the ball with less time left on the game clock than shot clock, about to win the game by 1. The Hungarian coach calls a timeout, which is against the rules, but it gives Serbia a penalty. Serbia goes on to miss the penalty and give Hungary a chance to attack 1 last time to tie the game when they otherwise wouldn't have had a chance to attack. The rule was changed soon after so a team can refuse a penalty and hold the ball instead but it was genius coaching and knowledge of the rules.

[@krks99]

It was the World Championships final in Montreal, 2005. Serbia and Montenegro won 8-7. Ikodinović scored 4 that day. Played amazingly well. Nearly had a heart attack at the end but we won. Good times. I think they have changed that rule since. The commentator said it was a tactical timeout and that it was a strategy that had been used before but I had not seen it before ever. Waterpolo is an insanely hard sport to play. But so goddamn fun.

[@jeeveso]

@@krks99 amazing! Thanks for telling me the exact game! Even found the link to the footage kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqPbp4l_mtCGl6c (incident around 54:20) Yes they changed the rules since, and love playing it, play it at a high level here in UK so it's good :)

[@krks99]

@@jeeveso Serbia dominates in waterpolo. I had to know. We are still so good. I was only 6 when this game was played. Without any seas to border us we have dominated for like 20 years. Funny, that. 😊

[@jamessweet6962]

I also heard of something where people would pull down the cage in order to draw a 5 meter, but it doesn’t work anymore.

[@SimuLord]

As long as we're talking water polo, a Rewinder episode about the Blood in the Water match at the 1956 Olympics between Hungary and the USSR would be awesome.

[@NickyPoutine]

Anyone here after Draymond called a timeout with none left in the finals?

[@EBFilmsMan]

Still didn't work! #wethechamps

[@rome8180]

Wait... did you make that comment a full year after the Finals? Or is there something glitchy with the date on the comment?

[@NickyPoutine]

rome8180 It’s almost 2 years since the comment, I made it a few days after game 6 raps warriors if i remember correctly

[@Phantom2502]

thank goodness for changing this rule. My raptors benefited from that change in game 6 of the 2019 finals, to win their first championship, and thanks to watching this video, I knew we got the technical foul shot and the ball.

[@ReidTheRulesGuy]

Got a video idea! 2002 All-Star Nascar race (called "The Winston"), they made a rule that each driver had a mandatory pit stop each segment. Jeff Burton won the pole for the race so he got to pick his pit stop box on pit lane. He picked the spot ahead of the finish line. In the last laps of segment 1, he was ahead by multiple seconds because everyone else had made a pit stop. The announcers started questioning what was happening and gave the iconic line "Did we miss something?". But once it got down to the last lap, they realized what was going on, and Burton pit, then passed the finish line. He actually ended up getting passed by Jimmy Johnson, but he still got a huge advantage from a genius move by the Crew Chief. If you look it up, you'll find a 7 minute video which has interviews with everyone involved. There was immediately a rule instated that outlawed this ever happening again.

[@chinareds54]

The loophole still exists for lower levels of basketball (I think high school, and definitely for rec leagues). The issue there is that the clock doesn't stop on a made basket, so if you make a shot to cut the lead to 1 with less than 5 seconds left, the other team can simply run out the clock by not inbounding the ball. So the proper play is to call timeout to stop the clock, resulting in a technical foul giving the other team 2 shots and the ball, but at least it gives you a chance to force a turnover on the subsequent inbounds play. I've been in that situation several times where I planned to take that techinical foul, but sadly my team always missed the shot that would have set up the timeout.

[@wheedler]

The description gives more explanation of what you're talking about than the video does. I do like the two people talking in a dark, empty room without explanation, though.

[@ItsHughMungus]

Great video, had never heard this story before today. Definitely an underrated finals

[@ryanjones9483]

A really weird occurrence in baseball happened in August of 1987, Dave Bresnahan, a 25-year-old second-string catcher with the Williamsport Bills of the Class-AA Eastern League threw a peeled potato wildly past his third baseman, hoping the runner would think he made an errant pick-off throw. The runner at third trotted home, and Bresnahan tagged him out with the baseball. An umpire retrieved the potato and awarded the runner home for Bresnahan’s deception. The following day, Bresnahan was fined by his manager and then released by the Bills’ parent club, the Cleveland Indians, for what they perceived as an affront to the integrity of the game.

[@closethockeyfan5284]

Although not so much about a rule, I remember reading about this. It's a good story.

[@t-squared6406]

I actually remember that,he was a genius,maybe not a great player,but a genius that probably served him well in life!!

[@FishyFLCL]

In sumo there is a weird rule if you throw an opponent off the circle and they land first(normally you still win) but if you body falls the wrong way you still lose.

[@NoJobRob]

A Deep Rewind inside of a Weird Rules. Amazing.

[@laxreece9255]

Like it 5 seconds in. Love these 2 together! We need more of these videos!!

[@callumhouse9043]

Formula E 2015-16 season finale. Championship decided by a fastest lap shootout between the 2 points leaders while the actual race is taking place. They later changed the points for fastest lap rule.

[@tommarshall5893]

England v Italy 2018 Rugby six nations. The italians didn't enter the ruck which meant there wasnt officially a ruck so nobody could be offside

[@DomV123]

bongo155 I found the insecure foreigner

[@damndaniel4866]

Man I wish someone else had this channel I can’t handle this guy

[@dantepetrin1125]

Last year, in the NEAFL final in Australia, there was a discussion around the Counting Players Rule in the AFL handbook. Please make a video on that. In short, a team can request the players on the opposing team to be counted, and if they have too many, all of the opposing teams points are wiped, but that didn’t happen this time around.

[@KWCline91]

Yet that led to a continuation of one of the greatest NBA games ever.

[@siegfriedverheijke]

I once won a kayak-run-kayak race in Hong Kong with my team mate by knowing the rules and how to go around them. We were one of the older teams, and would be expected to be in the top 8, as we had fairly good kayaking skills. The run course was a loop with checkpoints A - B - C - A. There were two paths from points A to B, but they were both rather long. The rules didn't say what trail to take, so we thought that we might try to find a direct way from A to B. The area was heavily overgrown (tropical), but we decided to create our own hidden, very straight trail from point A to B. This took us 9 hours in total (over 3 laborious sessions), and I got bitten by horseflies nine times. Painful. We started the race in the kayaks and managed to hold on to second place. As we got out of the kayaks, we did not follow the main trail, but rather disappeared off to the right onto the trail that we had made. That straight trail cut the A t-to-B section in half, and it helped us gain 10 minutes over the top runners at the B checkpoint. As we went up to point C, the top guys started closing in. Going back down from point C to point A, I was really slow, struck as I was by the humidity and heat. The top runners almost caught us as we got into our kayaks. Then we gave it all we could on the way back, not daring to look around for the first 15 minutes! Then we looked back and saw that they couldn't keep our pace, and we ended up 2 minutes ahead in first place. No-one had thought that this was possible. The top team couldn't figure out how we did it. We told them. The following year the rules were changed, so as to avoid people making their own trail. :-)

[@victorkeller]

OK never saw your channel before nice video on a here to for unknown rule to my knowledge and was very informative the only thing I would recommend is if you can add more footage from the game that would really improve the clip although maybe there is limited footage in circulation or copyright barriers just wanted to say nice job on this

[@johnjackson6483]

Very creative idea, and video!👏

[@noyoutubeidontwanttotakeyo4946]

They mention that if you want a timeout it will cost you a point but a freethrow is not guaranteed so it MAY cost you a point.

[@nicksurfs1]

Haha this is like my friend who sees an illegal parking spot as “you can park here it just costs $60 or free.” Or says you can smoke in a hotel it just costs $150. Haha

[@brianarbenz7206]

I remember that game vividly. I had just graduated high school. It was the game that would not end. Most bizarre and dramatic series of events.

[@tracyh5751]

I’ve been waiting for this video since I saw the convo in the comments.

[@serenajamison1725]

Yet another reminder of the end of the 1988 NBA Finals, Game 7... this referee was actually willing to enforce rules until the buzzer, amazing.

[@Jenny010132]

Zoogz THANK YOU. The officiating in that series was pitiful!

[@coldsnap5742]

The Pistons won the next two titles, but you're still bitter over the one that got away?

[@serenajamison1725]

@@coldsnap5742 More as in, "for such a good series it's a shame that you can point at the officiating as a definite weak link."

[@cronoros]

Suggestion for a video on this. Watch the end of the 2011 sb, between giants and Pats. It's been fixed now but having 12 men on the field on defence was a live ball foul worth only 5 yards. This means you can flood the field with as many players as you want on defence to stop big plays to run down the clock until the offense in effect will only get the final play in order to have a chance at scoring. Even better if you get a turnover you can keep the ball in play to run the clock down even faster. The offense will get one "clean" play to finish the game but otherwise are screwed. The counter for it would be for the offense to just snap the ball and instantly spike it over and over but you would need to be prepared in your head to do something so counter intuitive to normal football when faced with this.

[@Mostlyharmless1985]

Conor O'Shea I’m pretty sure repeatedly breaking the 11 man rule would get you a palpably unfair act and cost you the game.

[@mrmacross]

@@Mostlyharmless1985 Agreed, but if you were sneaky and just played 12 guys, you'd probably just get the standard penalty. You pretty much have to go out of your way to do something "palpably unfair" in order to get that penalty called on you. John Harbaugh pretty much pushes the rules to the limit when he intentionally has his guys hold defenders so they can hang onto the ball for as long as possible in order to eat up remaining clock.

[@Mostlyharmless1985]

mrmacross “as many as you like” would probably draw the pua. 12 men likely wouldn’t.

[@moshpitsonly2778]

Conor O'Shea yea you know defense isn’t 100% guaranteed to stop a touchdown

[@thygreatmark]

this channel is awesome.

[@oteph8089]

Deja vue 2019 raptors verse golden state

[@francoeurtim]

I want an updated Worst Super Bowl video.

[@rohanvyas1766]

Well...well...well... NBA Finals 2019 Game 6 last 15 seconds

[@BassManSTS]

That rule exists in the NCAA as well, as twice I've witnessesed a team get a timeout at the cost of a technical foul, including in the 1993 National Championship

[@apocrypha5363]

Jeez! The fact that this still exists, and the rule isn't just: "Calling for a time out when you have no time outs has no effect on the game and so the game continues. The clock continues to run, and any travelling violation, or any person illegally entering/exiting the court or interrupting the flow of play that is caused by the team pretending to have a time out is dealt with as it would be at any other point in the game."

[@manu-iman]

*James Harden got fouled while watching this.*

[@Njennings42]

I don't know basketball, so this whole episode made 0 sense to me.

[@LuisDiaz-bp7tv]

This is an amazing short

[@Sai4651]

I watched the 76 finals, there's an archive on KZbin, and it is definitely the best finals game in NBA history.

[@xRayshunx]

These guys look like the complete opposite of Basketball fans.

[@ShovelChef]

U srs? Who doesn't like basketball? 😏

[@DaRealYungRay]

Kofi Mills' Videos yeah

[@nicholaswilliams8018]

A white guy invented basketball

[@adizmal]

@@nicholaswilliams8018 a PE teacher invented basketball, not a hipster manchild.

[@spethmanjones2997]

adizmal what if the PE coach was a white guy? Game, set, match, _you’re outta here_

[@patrickmcmanus744]

Do the rule where the Detroit loin’s crowd got told to quiet down because there were too loud

[@i1upp1ayer1]

The illegal touching(or first touching) rule on punts. Basically means if the punting team touches the ball first(it normally gets downed there) but if the receiving team can get to the ball, they can do whatever they want with it.. field it, lateral it, return it for a td. Even if they end up fumbling the ball, it will just end up being spotted were the kicking team originally touched(downed) it. I think I saw a rams player return a TD doing this in the 90s. and in recent years saw a titan try making a play on a ball that the texans punted and threw back in play to try saving it from being a touchback. If you don't know the rule it looks stupid and risky, but if you do know the rule, its essentially a free play to try something wild as a receiving team.

[@ManualBreathing]

Props to whichever employee at SB Nation made the graphics. Air Bud has never looked so fresh.

[@drby0788]

Do the 72 Olympic basketball game between USA and USSR

[@smacaskill]

That's not so much weird rules as it is rampant corruption and outright cheating.

[@KardiFan2000]

You guys should do an episode on a game from the 1992 MLB season (Sept. 27, 1992) between the Blue Jays and Yankees. With Jack Morris starting and the Jays up 9-0 in the top of the 5th, heavy rain started coming down, so the Jays tried to hurry up and get past the 5th, to make the game official, and give Morris his 20th win. The Jays batters were swinging at every pitch to make it happen, but Alfredo Griffin stole the show by striking out on a pitch WAY up and outside, it's literally the worst-looking strikeout in MLB history. In the end, Morris got his 20th win after a long rain delay. Still funny though...the video of Griffin's strikeout is somewhere on youtube.

[@nmarbletoe8210]

that's a funny story

[@eskewroberts7663]

This might be my favorite episode of weird rules

[@theenglishman]

I actually have heard of this before! As a teenager I had a book called "And The Fans Roared", with an accompanying CD narrated by Bob Costas. It documented the leadup to the biggest moments in sports history, kind of like an early version of Rewinder, and this play was one of the things they covered.

[@kevinmyers8325]

You could do the 10 sec runoff when the lions lost the football game. Idk if theres been another case of this but there might of been

[@gimbobjenkins405]

There has been but that was due to a penalty by the offense, the problem I had with the Lions game was the refs are the ones who stopped play for a review so why are they charging the offense a time penalty for something they had to stop the game for anyway?

[@liammcelroy3741]

First of all it should’ve been a touchdown, secondly if they initially called him down on the field then the lions have another chance to line up and run the play. Lions got the 1 2 of bad call plus bad rule

[@gimbobjenkins405]

The call was correct, Tate was about half a yard short of the goal line.

[@liammcelroy3741]

Gim Bob Jenkins you could argue that, but might I add that there should have been 11 seconds left on the clock? Even with the runoff it would still leave a second on the clock

[@gimbobjenkins405]

I will argue that because the refs actually got a call correct but yes there were more than 10 seconds on the clock when his knee was down so they should have had a chance to at least line up and try to get a snap off.

[@jebronlames4559]

I see that the Warriors must've watched this before the 2019 finals

[@freddiemoore3033]

I'd love to see a video about cricket There are quite a few rules 1. A batsman can literally be 'timed out' if they fail to make it to the batting crease in time 2. You can be caught behind if the ball hits the straps of the batsman's pads 3. If a batsman is given out then the captain of the fielding team can withdraw the wicket if they feel that it was unfair to the batsman. An example of this was when English Batsman Ian Bell was run out after walking off the field because the umpire had mistakingly signalled a boundary and it was the end of the session. India Captain MS Dhoni withdrew the run out afterwards. 4. The fielding team has to appeal for every wicket; if they don't, even if it is obvious, the umpire does not have to give it out. Further, a fielding team can appeal with one type of dismissal in mind, but then find that it's given out for a different reason. 5. If a team can not locate the ball after a shot, then they can call 'lost ball' and 5 runs will be added to the batsman score, as well as any runs taken. However, in a game between Victoria and Western Australia in 1894 the ball was hit into a tree, where it became lodged. WA called 'lost ball' but as they could locate the ball, the Umpire denied the claim. This lead to the V team running until they could get the ball down. They ran 286 times before the ball was returned, to add even more hilarity, the equipment used to get the ball down was a rifle, which was fired at the ball, further, if the fielding team had caught it, it would have been out, meaning NONE of the runs would have counted. (This next fact I was told, but have not been able to verify) . The 'lost ball' rule only came into fruition because the batter hit the ball down a rabbit hole, and so the fielding team had to literally dig the ball out whilst the batsmen continued to run; scoring a very very large number of runs. 6. Before every day of cricket the entire pitch should be mowed, including the wicket. Obvious cricket is played over multiple days, so grass does not always grow on the wicket. However, even if there is no grass on the wicket, the mower must still 'mow' the wicket, though they raise the blades to not cause damage to the wicket itself. 7. They had to change a rule forbidding players for leaving the pitch for any reason other than injury or illness because a player was not allowed to leave the pitch to use the bathroom and so just went on the pitch. 8. In 1771, before America was even independent!, a cricketer called Thomas White discovered a loophole in the laws of cricket and so was playing in a match between Chertsey and Hambledon when he used a bat as wide as the wicket, therefore making it impossible to bowl him out. The rule was later changed to be a max width of 4.5 inches/ I'm sure there are more that have been changed over times as well

[@Childress25]

Paul Westphal was the player who suggested the illegal timeout strategy in the huddle. This was the other "Shot Heard Round the World" in ode to Bobby Thompson's. I can't believe you've never heard of this before.

[@noknackers]

I remember seeing this story on an NBA Finals greatest moments DVD

[@SoupLegion]

confusing because red shirt didn't explain that "you still get the time out, but you lose a point" -seth had to do it with the infographic... and he said earlier it's a technical foul (nowadays, I assume). congrats on 1 million followers, this is the first video of yours I've seen...

[@jbratt]

That was the game that got me into watching the NBA. I remember the game going very late. It was amazing.

[@derjukee]

I remember hearing during the WS last year that Bob Geren of the Dodgers is an encyclopedia on MLB rules and using them to his advantage. Might be a treasure trove of trickery? 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@Zigtec]

This rule was just put into action tonight in the Suns v Pelicans game and it even decided the game!

[@crazyluigi6664]

The irony is Phoenix *did win that game,* but it was in the opposite manner this time around. :P

[@jordandwiggins1026]

@@crazyluigi6664 The 1976 finals game? No they didn’t

[@crazyluigi6664]

@@jordandwiggins1026 No, I was talking about his Pelicans game from a couple of years ago. That game turned out to help benefit the Pelicans in the end with Zion Williamson being the #1 pick there.

[@jordandwiggins1026]

@@crazyluigi6664 Okay, I was very confused at what you were referring to

[@crazyluigi6664]

@@jordandwiggins1026 Understandable. Both games did involve the Suns, after all. It's just both of them lead to different results in the end for Phoenix, with the irony being New Orleans getting the #1 pick in that year's draft instead of Phoenix likely in part due to said win Phoenix got against them.

[@djbass7672]

quality content

[@wtk6069]

There's also the convenient "cramp" that appears during the last dead ball. While the team doctor gets the "hurt man" off the court, the coach substitutes another shooter and draws up the play for the team.

[@The.Tate.Philosophy]

999k subs congrats on the 1 mill

[@stanleyjohanson6720]

How about a team in the Taiwanese baseball league had to lose their final game of the 2017 season to qualify for the playoffs?

[@chapeltom9424]

Which season? 2017 or 2018? And in any case that didn't happen. The big story from 2018 was the walk off home run perfect game... Which I was at.

[@jtdao]

@@chapeltom9424 The 2017/2018 season

[@claramcmillan1244]

can you be any more specific? i'm not finding anything about this but i am interested

[@chapeltom9424]

@@jtdao no such thing. It is either 2017 or 2018. I would know as I support a team and go to 40-50 games a season

[@chapeltom9424]

@@claramcmillan1244 it's rubbish, it didn't happen. Source, I support one of the 4 teams and we qualified for the play offs in 2017 and 2018.

[@noahhess4955]

“I know nothing of this series” yet he guessed one of the teams that was in it in two seconds

[@averydaymond1560]

This is totally different but somehow this video reminded me of Jim Valvano’s foul on purpose strategy when seemingly hopelessly behind late in the game. In 1983 the man did it to perfection like a damn surgeon he was so good at it. He was so good at it they changed the rules either the next year or not long after.

[@fluffytashi]

Have you guys ever considered looking at Motorsports weird rules or only stick and ball sports. Tons of weird rules in racing . Like in the Indy500 the car qualifies not the driver, so sometimes when a driver doesn't qualify, because they might have contractual obligations to run the race them may have to pay millions of dollars to buy out the seat from the guy who did qualify.

[@Bordelll]

NHL goalies’ crease or how Buffalo got screwed in the Stanley cup finals, well according to the rule at the time

[@closethockeyfan5284]

That would be great for a cross-series promotion between Weird Rules and Rewinder.

[@confusdsquirrl]

Seriously you could have a few episodes on Smokey Yunick. Dude made cheating in NASCAR an art form.

[@SimuLord]

The Roger Neilson of auto racing.

[@jefftaylor1186]

The time NASCAR took the illegal fuel cell out of his car and he got in it, started it up and drove it to his garage.

[@SkippyDipper]

There's a weird rule in professional wrestling where if the referee is knocked unconscious and another referee from the locker room comes out to officiate the match but then the first ref wakes up and the two wrestlers end up in a pinning predicament where it appears that each of them has their shoulders against the mat and each ref counts the 1-2-3 for a different man and both grapplers' arms are raised in victory at the same time, it's a no contest and all four men continue to argue from the ring back to the locker room. It's called a "Dusty Finish" after booker Dusty Rhodes and it only happens about once a month.

[@crackentertainmenttv]

Have you ever looked into the rule about return kicks ? It sounded really fun i know its in the NCAA cfb rulebook but i dont know about the nfl

[@juansosa7813]

Here just to make sure the 2019 finals didn't get messed up

[@selfishstockton6123]

I never knew the Suns were in the Finals in the 70’s go figure

[@60anthonyh]

You guys should do a video on the NFL's fair catch free kick rule, where if a fair catch on a punt is called, the receiving team can try an extremely long field goal with no opposing rush. It's a super rare occurrence and even more rare to be successful

[@turtleguy4385]

Hey, can you guys do a rewind for that play? Gar Heard's buzzer beater deserves a deep Rewind

[@DeKaged]

What a raptor's game. 2019, finals time out rule

[@barou_]

That's what happened 2016 Cavs vs Bulls in the playoffs when lebron hit the buzzer beater

[@subairali8075]

Petros that was 2015 game 4

[@barou_]

@@subairali8075 Damn time flies

[@Olinad209]

why what happened?

[@dariusgoatland10]

@@Olinad209 Cavs tried to call timeout with no timeouts, refs ignored it.

[@cowlover239]

The incident with the late call in the Australian Open R4 match between Carreno Busta and Nishikori. Carreno Busta was allowed to challenge a call at a crucial moment in the 5th set tiebreaker, but no matter the result of the challenge, the umpire would reward the point to Nishikori due to the nature of the call being late. Carreno challenges, is successful, then gets the point taken away anyways. He then melts down and chokes away the win. Very strange sequence of events in a huge moment.

[@HankTheTank23]

In theory, if the average NBA player makes 75% of his free-throw shots, it actually only costs you .75 points per timeout, according to the concept of expected value.

[@boedude8496]

the technical foul is supposed to result in loss of posession. how did they get the ball back?

[@msolec2000]

Not then, it wasn't. They changed it afterwards.

[@markwheeler202]

@@msolec2000 Must have been an NBA thing.

[@mhicks31]

I thought this video was "pretty good" but I saw it was only half over... Wait, the ref was attacked? what is going on here?

[@andygettelfinger438]

Have you heard of the story of the 1962 Daytona Continental (later to evolve into the daytona 24) where the driver won by parking on the track. The changed rules for safety reason in almost every motorsport that you have to maintain a min pace.

[@joepile2037]

weird rule suggestion: cricket had a rule which allowed a team to bowl underarm, making it impossible for the other team to score. imagine baseball had a rule which lets the pitcher roll the ball to the batter to prevent a homerun, and thats the weird rule that cricket had.

[@PlayrTBH]

Weird rule, Michael Schumacher winning the 1998 British Grand Prix while serving his stop and go penalty. Really good use of the rules.

[@saxdude3]

It almost happened again!

[@jordanwood72]

Question for hardcore baseball enthusiasts, if the outfielder were to be able to stand and the top of the wall in the outfield and made the catch (like Hiroshi Tanaka’s catch in Major League II) would it be an out or a home run?

[@markokuhar670]

Have you done the MLB rule where if you throw your glove at a live ball and it hits it it’s an automatic triple