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April 16, 2010
SportsFilter: The Friday 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.
The tyres just flew off Sebastian Buemi's car under braking at the end of the straight in free practice in China. If you're in the UK, you can see it here. Only thing I can find on YouTube for the moment is in German and is here, but no doubt there will be some further posts over the next few hours/days. [On review, the BBC footage filmed from someone's TV here for international types.]
Buemi walked away seemingly unscathed, as did the cameraman a the end of the straight. If you watch the BBC link, he seems to be a bit cowardly, with the pictures coming from him suddenly ducking behind the tyre wall even though it's obvious that the car isn't going to reach him. However, at the very end of the clip, you can just see in the top right corner of the screen that what he was ducking to avoid wasn't what was left of the car, but in fact the right wheel, which didn't miss him by much when it bounced off the top of the tyre wall and over the safety fence before narrowly missing a lone spectator.
As it is, the story is that the wheels came off Buemi's car, but I can't help watching the clip again and thinking the story was only a few metres from being "Cameraman and spectator killed by flying wheel at Chinese Grand Prix". I suppose it's a sport of narrow margins that way mind you; Massa was about an inch from at best losing an eye (at worst, losing his life) last year when that loose fragment from another car pierced his helmet.
posted by JJ at 07:37 AM on April 16, 2010
The first seven opening games for the NHL playoffs have been decided by one goal, with the "underdogs" (based on Vegas odds and expert picks) winning 5 of them.
This is shaping up to be a hell of a first round.
posted by grum@work at 08:37 AM on April 16, 2010
JJ, I have to admit smiling at the footage in your final link, lingering on a pile of tyres while waiting for the smoke to clear.
posted by yerfatma at 08:58 AM on April 16, 2010
NFL suspension-generating flowchart
posted by grum@work at 12:43 PM on April 16, 2010
What the heck is "specific people" referring to on the flowchart?!
posted by billsaysthis at 12:57 PM on April 16, 2010
A person related to the player in some fashion, not random people on the street he happened to mow down.
posted by yerfatma at 03:06 PM on April 16, 2010
So, according to the flowchart nothing will happen to "Big Ben"?
posted by yzelda4045 at 03:48 PM on April 16, 2010
Another rooting interest for owlhouse in the NFL. If you weren't a fan before, you must become one now.
posted by Howard_T at 04:12 PM on April 16, 2010
In Vegas for industry meetings this week and picked up a couple futures tickets:
100/1 on the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl
80/1 on the Blue Jays to win the World Series
I also took 50/1 on Shaaa, and monkeys might fly out of my butt.
posted by wfrazerjr at 06:21 PM on April 16, 2010
Another rooting interest for owlhouse in the NFL. If you weren't a fan before, you must become one now.
I have been a Detroit Lions fan since I picked up a cheap jacket at a seconds warehouse in Sri Lanka a couple of years ago. The nice blue/silver colour swayed me.
Now if the Lions would only draft one of the Sydney Swans...
posted by owlhouse at 06:53 PM on April 16, 2010
The Lions added some black to their jerseys a few years back. Supposed to make them more fierce or something. Unfortunately it has had no tangible effect on their play.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 01:33 AM on April 17, 2010
The Habs did a mighty fine job of keeping Ovechkin out of the game last night.