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October 19, 2015
SportsFilter: The Monday 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.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 08:00 AM on October 19, 2015
Aren't those clever fans just too cute? Having such fun, and so pleased with themselves.
Please note what's missing from the phone. The time and date.
Why would that be important in the land of Quayle?
It's more important than GPS.
posted by beaverboard at 08:15 AM on October 19, 2015
Aren't those clever fans just too cute? Having such fun, and so pleased with themselves.
Please note what's missing from the phone. The time and date.
People enjoying themselves are such jerks!
I feel like I'm missing a point here, but the time is on the "screen."
Maybe next week they can bring the behind the scenes conversation that led to that fake punt.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 10:02 AM on October 19, 2015
I enjoyed the Colts fans making such a big deal about DeflateGate. My favorite was the deflated football cake. But the Patriots got the last laugh, as always.
posted by rcade at 10:41 AM on October 19, 2015
Is the time readout that tiny scribblage up at the top of the phone screen above "Jim McNally"? I can't really see what that is on my monitor display.
Time of day is a moving target in Indiana. Or was. I always thought that when the music group Chicago wrote their hit song "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?", they were in the band bus on the highway just south of Gary, heading for the Ohio border.
From the linked text:
Previously 77 counties, most of Indiana, were in the Eastern Time Zone and did not observe daylight saving time. Five counties Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison and Ohio County which which were in the eastern time zone, did observe daylight saving time, and ten other counties, Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick which were in the central time zone did observe daylight saving time.
So by mid-November of each year, there could be as much as a 2 hour time difference between two nearby towns. Or there could be no time difference between two nearby towns even though they might be in different time zones. Or the time difference in two towns might fluctuate by an hour depending on what time of year it was.
This is why Gorbachev laughed when he heard someone mention how fucked up the old Soviet work week was.
posted by beaverboard at 10:48 AM on October 19, 2015
Yeah, Arizona is another one of those magical timezone lands that programmers like to swap stories about: no DST there but there's an Indian Reservation inside the state that does respect DST, so that must be fun.
My only problem with the phone in the photo is that based on the iPhone 6S it might be a working prototype of the 7. Every time I go to buy a new phone I'm reminded of the GM designer who scoffed at the notion the Ford Excursion would ever overtake the Suburban, saying, "At some point things become un-garage-able".
posted by yerfatma at 11:27 AM on October 19, 2015
Joe Flacco throws a very nice pass to a wide open...other team guy. There's a lot standing around on this play.
posted by NoMich at 11:36 AM on October 19, 2015
Or there could be no time difference between two nearby towns even though they might be in different time zones. Or the time difference in two towns might fluctuate by an hour depending on what time of year it was.
Growing up playing hockey in southwestern Ohio, the Indiana daylight savings clusterfuck arose on many occasions. Depending on the time of year, and the actual town to which we traveled from Cincinnati to play a game, we had about a 50/50 chance of arriving at the right time. Often, we would arrive at the rink to learn that we were very, very early. Others, we arrived after a 3 hour bus ride to find that we had just forfeited.
posted by tahoemoj at 12:06 PM on October 19, 2015
Arizona is another one of those magical timezone lands that programmers like to swap stories about: no DST there but there's an Indian Reservation inside the state that does respect DST, so that must be fun.
You're underselling it.
There is a reservation (Hopi) which doesn't observe daylight savings.
The reservation is inside Navajo Nation, which does observe daylight savings.
The Nation is inside the state of Arizona, which doesn't observe daylight savings.
The state of Arizona is inside the USA, which does observe daylight savings.
posted by grum@work at 12:41 PM on October 19, 2015
There's a lot standing around on this play.
50% of the offensive line looks like they were surprised the everyone started without them.
posted by grum@work at 12:43 PM on October 19, 2015
This is why Gorbachev laughed when he heard someone mention how fucked up the old Soviet work week was.
The Soviet Union was on DST for its entire existence -- Russia was on it when the Revolution happened, and the Communists never changed back. Solzhenitsyn referred to it in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, pointing out that the system was so powerful that it even moved the sun so it wasn't directly overhead at noon anymore.
posted by Etrigan at 01:13 PM on October 19, 2015
50% of the offensive line looks like they were surprised the everyone started without them.
I think that's because the defensive line just started slowly trotting around in circles.
posted by NoMich at 01:18 PM on October 19, 2015
You're underselling it
Yeah, it's just . . . now that I'm getting older I realize those facts are really just ghost stories programmers use to scare each other about stuff neither of them ever has to deal with. If you want to leave me awake all night, tell me you store your timestamps in something other than UTC. As long as everything is in UTC, anything is do-able.
Also, remind me never to fly over that reservation. At best you're going to be an hour late, at worst you'll never get there. "If that fourth engine goes, we'll be stuck up here all day."
posted by yerfatma at 01:29 PM on October 19, 2015
I've never heard the term arm-punt before, but it perfectly describes that Flacco pass. Songs could be written about how bad that toss was. What was he thinking?
posted by rcade at 02:10 PM on October 19, 2015
What was he thinking?
"That last blind heave got me to the Superbowl and a massive contract, let's giver another shot .."
posted by cixelsyd at 02:36 PM on October 19, 2015
What? Michigan didn't beat Michigan State?
posted by bender at 03:50 PM on October 19, 2015
Here's an end zone angle of the Michigan State win. After the initial bedlam of the win and massive pileup, you can hear the scoring player whose hip was dislocated screaming -- and not in joy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IptjI6G2os
Edit: A story that says his hip was injured by the tackle before the pileup.
posted by rcade at 07:12 PM on October 19, 2015
Edit: A story that says his hip was injured by the tackle before the pileup.
That reminds me of the tackle that destroyed Bo Jackson's football career. It looked innocent enough, but his hip popped out.
posted by grum@work at 06:51 AM on October 20, 2015