Americans are really bad at counterfactuals.

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  • January 21, 2019 at 6:42 pm #97065
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    I made the mistake of watching a lot of the sports media shows today, and they’re just going on and on about “the no-call call.” Immediately after watching the game, I thought it would be an issue, but not like this. They’re already months past the beating a dead horse stage and it’s only the next day.

    But what strikes me the most is this. These pundits have obviously never traveled through time before, like some of us, because if they had, they’d discuss the game (and referees) in a different way.

    Ya see, if you go back in time and alter something even remotely significant, you no longer have the same world. The variables, cause and effect, karma, the look, smell and feel of things — they’re all different. You’re literally not going in the same direction anymore. Within the context of a football game, this is more obvious. So a missed call in the 2nd quarter, if altered (let’s say) via the new MB17 time-zapper pro, changes virtually everything that follows. So if you redo X call and make it Y, that supposedly “decisive” no-call later in the game no longer happens, because everything that led to that play didn’t happen, so the play doesn’t happen.

    And I really shouldn’t have to explain this to these guys. They can see it all by just going to http://www.timemachine.change. But they need to hurry. We’re getting ready to alter the year 1969, and that was pivotal to the Internet itself, so . . .

    January 21, 2019 at 6:55 pm #97067
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    Most non-Rams fans are going to be stuck on the non-call.

    Reasoning about it is going to do zero good. As we all already know.

    Point is though that if PI had been called the Saints get a first down and the chance to run down the clock and not let the Rams back in the game.

    Of course, if the Saints hadn’t thrown the ball at all and had run 3 times instead, same thing happens. They run down the clock and the chances of the Rams having time to come back and tie are greatly diminished.

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