QUOTE (Saturnian @ Feb 2 2010, 07:45 PM)
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I know they are buds, but I can't believe that Mike had to resort to two hours and twenty minutes of Nantz on the Tuesday of the Super Bowl.
It did lead to one of my favorite moments of Mike pwnage EVA. Nantz had two pet peeves re: the NFL; the first was the idea to lengthen the season to 18 games. Hates the idea: thinks it will result in more injuries, ruin the record book, and lead to even more team resting players at the end of the year. Mike, of course, is all for extending the season, because the teams make season ticket holders buy tickets to those games anyway. Nantz's other beef is with the current overtime set-up. Mike knows where Nantz is going and pre-emptively tells him he's wrong and has the numbers to prove it. Nantz comes back with the fact that over the last 10 years, ~40% of teams that win the OT coin toss win the game on the first possession. Mike then tries to use his patented "I will ask a different question until you don't have an answer and then use this as irrefutable proof that I'm right and you're wrong" finishing move. Inexplicably though, he then makes the case that extending OT will lead to a spike in injuries. Nantz immediately calls him on advocating the addition of 120 regular season minutes of football while simultaneously balking at an extra possession or two in an OT scenario. Because Nantz is someone Mike likes and respects, and not a lowly listener, Mike can't shout him down and/or hang up on him. So out of nowhere, Mike says that he's all for changing OT for playoffs and/or the the Super Bowl. As if he hadn't spent the last ten minutes staunchly arguing the polar opposite. Sweet, sweet nectar for my ears.
The best part was Nantz bringing up baseball extra innings(saying if the team scores in the top of the 10th the game should be over) and Mike saying it's "just different" than football.
