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Reimer in net today. So no lead is safe.

Matinee in Calgary. Kane whistles one in from the point to open the scoring. And now Compher makes it 2-0, still in the 1st.

"The Heisman Trophy...that is something that no one can ever take away from you. Unless you kill your wife and the waiter, in which case all bets are off"

4-1 final. So far on this Western trip the Wings got schooled by two superior teams.

Husso out week to week with a lower body injury

When we were walking from Tiger Stadium to our parked car after Game 3 of the 1984 World Series on the Friday night, we saw a guy pulled out of a car and stabbed multiple times by a guy. I do not think it was random, do not know the fate of the stabbee. That is the only real violence that I have seen at any Detroit sporting event I have attended over the years, apart from fistfights. I got caught up in a Vancouver riot after Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup loss to the Rangers, but no one lost their life and there were no gunshots as far as I can recall.

1 dead, 30+ injured from shooting at end of KC Super Bowl parade. Damn. Has that ever happened, a shooting at a championship parade?

Canadian players who make it to the NFL usually go straight there, bypass the CFL. Tight end Luke Wilson, for example, grew up in Windsor, played college football for Rice, then got drafted by the Seahawks in 2013, played several years for them as a starter then had cups of coffee with a few other teams like the Lions. Nathan Rourke, an American who played college ball in the MAC for Ohio, went right to Canada after college and set the CFL on fire for a couple of years as the QB here in BC. So this past summer tried to make the Jaguars, but did not, although did spend some time on the practice squad before being waived and picked up by the Patriots. His few minutes of fame was the highlight reel play in the pre-season though.

That was a 6-assist night for McDavid.

Poof, all the momentum from the stellar 2nd period is gone. 5-3 Edmonton.

Wings getting a lot of odd man rushes. Oilers announcers saying that “this 3-2 score is pretty complimentary to the Oilers”. Split second later, Kane ties it.

Kane to DeBrincat makes it 2-1. This game could have gotten out of hand5 games before this.

Husso exits nine minutes into game. Looks like he aggravated when stretching on that opening goal.

I think he also knocked out the Saskatchewan Roughriders' QB with a snowball to the head.

I think the broadcast handled Taylor Swift well on Sunday. They showed her a lot, but Romo and Nantz rarely mentioned her. To me, not that much different than when broadcasts would frequently flash to Nicholson at Lakers game or Bill Murray during the Cubs WS run. I could do without so many crowds shots in general (for some reason I particularly hated how Fox would show the Red Sox fans with their hands in praying position pitch after pitch after pitch), but the Super Bowl has always had tons of distractions. Its' not like she was on a headpiece being interviewed by Nantz between downs in the 3rd quarter.

Bugger. Flyers win 4th straight. Just before the All Star Break they looked like a team all set to fade. Devils win too. Wings need 4 points on this tough 4-game Western swing.

Lol,so I guess I’m just old and absent minded even when I think I’m paying attention. Next year I need to watch Nickelodeon and have Dora explain everything to me.

I know, I just found that out this morning. I guess I”m dumb for not knowing about the rule change. I suppose they mentioned it during the OT coin flip which I was in the kitchen for, but did they mention it all during the drive? Changes so many thingss.

I definitely think there was an argument to go for it. You had plenty of field to work with, not just the endzone, so I think 4th and 4 from the 9 is easier than 4th and goal from the 4, say. If you’re stopped, you’re still ahead by about 15 yards of field possession compared to giving it to them on the 25 after a touchback. Your defense has played well all night so you’d be trusting them to prevent the Chiefs from at least gaining 45 yards or so to move from their own 9 into FG position. That’s true either way, but by kicking a FG, you’re guaranteeing that the Chiefs would be using 4 downs the entire drive, whereas if the Niners had tried and failed the Chiefs would probably punt on any 4th down in their own territory. All things considering, I think I would have gone for it.

Swifties who only started watching football in October have already seen their team win a championship.

Is the marriage proposal coming up or will there be a couple more commercial breaks first?

He made up for it with 55 and 57 yards field goals. Miss one of those but make that extra point and no one would blame him at all, but would have meant two fewer points overall.

Overtime.

So far today Moody has held a record that lasted about an hour for longest Super Bowl FG ever, then missed an extra point. Pretty good chance he will be asked to attempt a FG to break a tie inside of two minutes in regulation.