- [Will] I think people should be rewarded
more often for doing nothing.
- [Clara] Agree, fully agree,
and I assume that this is my quarterly review.
- (laughing) Yep.
So welcome, I figure it'd be easier,
the animations would make some of
the tougher news easier to swallow.
But no, like life is hard,
and I feel like everyone deserves
just surprise treats here and there.
- I'm gonna offend people maybe,
but that's why we like Christmas
is for the surprise treats.
- And nothing else, famously nothing else.
I think that's why
I really enjoy penalties in sports
because ultimately like,
the way my brain interprets them
is it is somebody getting rewarded
for somebody else's fuck up.
- As a kid they'd always be like
well don't root for them to foul out or something
because it's unsportsmanlike,
but like why not?
That's a freebie for us.
- I'm not rooting for them to foul out,
I'm rooting for myself to be a better
rules follower than them.
- [Clara] That's it, yeah.
That's the same as rooting for myself to win in general.
- But yeah, so like penalties,
it's you did something bad,
your opponent gets rewarded.
And in American football, the NFL in particular,
there's actually a few rules
that essentially say your team did something bad,
so the other team gets points.
Just straight up, here's points.
- [Clara] Oh wow, so we're skipping the like
mini game within the larger game
of like free throws or penalty shots,
we're just giving you the points.
- Right, right, and so like obviously
what it takes to achieve these free points...
there's special circumstances
that it is a very very rare thing to happen,
and from what I have seen, one of these rules
has never actually been enacted.
- [Clara] Oh wow.
- [Will] So it's rule 12, section three, article two,
fouls to prevent score.
The defense shall not commit successive
or repeated fouls to prevent a score.
If a violation is repeated after a warning,
the score involved is awarded to the offensive team.
So in layman's terms.
- Please, please.
- If the defense keeps doing the same shit
and keeps preventing the offense from scoring,
the refs can warn the defense
and if they keep pulling the same bullshit
the refs can say all right, screw it,
points awarded, we're moving on.
- Yeah that's it, game's over, they get their points.
- Keep it moving.
- That's cool, I guess because there's a warning involved
to then still do whatever it was is so brazen.
I think that that team should be rewarded for trying.
- I think to your point,
it's like it's one of the rare rules
where there's a step in the middle.
So it's not just like,
it's like you have done enough penalties
that now we're gonna slap on
like tier two of this penalty.
- [Clara] Yeah, it's hard to imagine a situation
where like they're gonna get points if you do it again
in which you would still do it.
You'd have to have like some personal problem
with a guy and be like I don't care,
I want to hurt him, it's worth losing.
- [Will] I have an extremely high level of job security.
- [Clara] I'm independently wealthy,
I don't need this job.
- [Will] This is just for fun like any sport should be.
So having said that,
there is exactly one scenario
that actually seems to fill this brief.
- Okay.
- As I mentioned, I don't think
this rule has ever been enacted,
but here's a time where it should have.
It was 2018, Steelers are playing the Chargers,
tie game with three seconds left
and the Chargers have a 39-yard field goal attempt
that would win the game.
So the Steelers need a miracle,
or they need to do a little bit of cheating.
That, in their defense, could ultimately work out.
Because what they're doing is
they just keep jumping offsides.
They are trying to time the snap,
trying to get around the edge,
trying to block the kick and force this game into overtime.
And so from 39-yards out, attempt number one,
the Chargers field goal kicker misses it,
but like half of the Steelers jump offside.
- Well if one guy's gonna do it.
- Right.
So, defensive penalty, untimed down,
zeroes on the clock but the Chargers get another attempt.
This time from 34-yards out.
They get the block this time,
so like it looks cool.
Steelers again jump offside to do so.
- Offsides works.
- Yeah yeah, like you can start to see the logic
and the problem solving skills are paying off.
But they have to go at it one more time,
this time from 29-yards out.
So you're just getting a little easier and easier
but like ultimately going from 39 yards to 29 yards,
a professional kicker, they should be fine.
So, on attempt number three,
Artie Burns of the Steelers
gets such a good jump offside
that he is diving past the ball.
If he had wanted to just take the ball
out of the holder's hands,
I think he had time to do that.
It goes in, game's over.
Like I said this rule did not come into play,
but the next day like some of the
rule aficionado talking heads at Fox,
they were doing a chat where they were like
after the second one of these
the refs could have gone over to the Steelers
and been like "Yo, heads up here's your warning.
Do it again, we're just gonna give them the points
regardless of the result."
- I feel like people would have been pissed
if that had happened.
It like wasn't the same exact offsides.
It was a fresh and new version of offsides each time.
Like if it's the same person
purposely repeating the same thing,
sure, give them the points.
Like I feel like people would have been up in arms.
- That makes a ton of sense.
The other aspect of this that I think
people would have been pissed about
is like we probably would not know
that this rule was being enacted.
We would probably not be aware that they got a warning,
we would see a field goal miss.
- It would just look like the refs decided.
You know what, Chargers win, everyone go home.
- It's late.
- If it was late it'd be respectable.
- Part of my brain is also then wondering,
based on how good of a jump Artie Burns got,
if he had had a warning to not jump offside
there's a chance he would have had a better shot
at actually blocking the kick.
- Oh interesting.
The same enthusiasm and reaction time
with a little bit of hesitation.
- Then again if a ref came up to me
and was like don't go offside again,
God I would wanna go offside so bad.
- Oh so bad.
I'd wanna go offsides and smash right into him
and be like oh sorry.
- The ref said I couldn't do it
so I had to show him that I could.
Ref's like no I said don't.
I said don't do it.
So yeah, Chargers won and we all lost
because the refs likely didn't know about this rule
so they couldn't even enact it.
- One cool thing is that now we know more
than NFL refs.
Unless of course they watch this video
which surely they do.
So even playing field again.
- I wonder if a ref has ever watched a Weird Rules.
- [Clara] I would think it's part of their training, right?
- [Will] We are in the syllabus.
- [Clara] Yeah.
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