# NFL Week 8 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 30, 2011, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-8/601272 "2011-10-30T12:03:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-8/601272/61 "2011-11-01T04:37:35Z")
And I think it was the great John Madden who did clue us all in on the fact that the team with the higher score wins the game. Repeatedly clued us in. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-8/601272/62 "2011-11-01T04:59:39Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > And I think it was the great John Madden who did clue us all in on the fact that the team with the higher score wins the game. Repeatedly clued us in. yeah, but he forgets that only works in overtime - like tonight. He forgets about the first sixty. If you look at the averages, it’s always the team leading at then end of the fourth quarter that pulls it out. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-8/601272/63 "2011-11-01T06:20:30Z")
Random football thought: The NFC North has 2 dome teams. What a waste. If anyone in the AFC North built a dome, they’d be laughed out of the division. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-8/601272/64 "2011-11-01T12:54:56Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Random football thought: The NFC North has 2 dome teams. What a waste. If anyone in the AFC North built a dome, they’d be laughed out of the division. Its a waste of some perfectly good football in the snow! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-8/601272/65 "2011-11-01T13:00:01Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > +1. This morning I started yelling at Mike and Mike on the radio because Golic said “technically the Bills are on top of the AFC East.” Technically? The tiebreaker is not a technicality. Nine games out from the end of the season, it surely is a technicality, and one barely worth mentioning at all. At this point in the season, all it means is that if the Bills and the Pats were to both go 9-0 the rest of the way, the Bills would win on the tiebreaker. But since that can’t happen, it doesn’t even mean that. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-8/601272/66 "2011-11-01T20:13:30Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Nine games out from the end of the season, it surely is a technicality, and one barely worth mentioning at all. > > At this point in the season, all it means is that if the Bills and the Pats were to both go 9-0 the rest of the way, the Bills would win on the tiebreaker. But since that can’t happen, it doesn’t even mean that. Yes. The tie-breaker is only applied _at the end of the season_. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-8/601272/67 "2011-11-01T21:44:33Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Some of my favorite plays in football are those that throw some egg on the announcer’s faces. Watching the MNF game near the end of regulation, they’re talking about “Superstar” Philip Rivers and how he’s one of the elite QB’s of the game, leading the Chargers on yet another fourth quarter come-from-behind victory… only to have Rivers fumble the snap. > > Oops. > > Now Rivers is a fine QB, no doubt about it, and I’m sorry for his sake that the Chargers lost that way, but damn it was sweet seeing the ESPN guys get shut up like that. And then immediately following that, KC, with no timeouts left, does a running play with about 1:35 left. For some reason, Norv Turner calls a timeout. The announcers praise his savviness with the time clock. KC decides to take advantage of Turners willingness to let them try to score and start airing the ball out, gaining 30 or so yards in no time at all. The announcers waste no time reversing their stance and calling Turner’s time out a mistake. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-8/601272/68 "2011-11-01T23:57:28Z")
Epic news. Future hall of famer Brian Robiskie has been cut. Or as someone on the browns board put it “Robiskie finally manages to get seperation” ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-8/601272/69 "2011-11-02T00:10:19Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > And then immediately following that, KC, with no timeouts left, does a running play with about 1:35 left. For some reason, Norv Turner calls a timeout. The announcers praise his savviness with the time clock. KC decides to take advantage of Turners willingness to let them try to score and start airing the ball out, gaining 30 or so yards in no time at all. The announcers waste no time reversing their stance and calling Turner’s time out a mistake. The announcers were doing that all night long. “I’m tired of these challenges, let refs know what they are doing, let them do their job and trust their calls.” Five minutes later… "I don’t know what the refs are doing. That call was dead wrong. They should challenge that. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-8/601272/70 "2011-11-02T12:41:52Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Or as someone on the browns board put it “Robiskie finally manages to get seperation” That is very eloquent! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-8/601272.md?page=3)