When I was in Melbourne about 20 years ago I attended a Collingwood match so when I talked to my Australian cousins this evening, they mentioned Collingwood was in the final, I did a little searching and found espn3 would stream the match live. Woo hoo!
What a match! Collingwood up by about 26 at one point but heroics by St Kilda and a few missed kicks by Collingwood and St Kilda is out front…now tied, seconds to go and end of regulation! Woo Hoo! Overtime!
What’s this, they are all sitting around and now the sideline reporter types are doing interviews, WTF?!? It’s over, what, they share the trophy? Who’s the champ?
Time to call Melbourne and see what the heck’s going on with this finish.
Get this, apparently they’ll drag another 100,000 people out to the stadium next weekend and replay the match. I can’t figure out if this is a massive degree of crazy or awesome. I strongly suspect awesome.
The only American championship game I can find that went to overtime was 2002 Miami and Ohio State. Imagine rather than that bastardized version of football colleges play in overtime they had just told everyone to come back the following week and they’d play four full quarters, again. Could Americans and especially the TV networks cope?
I will be glued to the computer screen again next Friday night/Saturday AM watching. Go Magpies!