The Daily Dose/March 21, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
HUT, HUT, HIKE: It happens every year about this time, the NFL starts considering farting around with it’s rule book. NFL teams have proposed five changes, with our favorite involving a suggestion by the Philadelphia Eagles to change the NFL’s regular season overtime rule so it is identical to the one used in the playoffs.
Dry, Technical Matter: Oh screw it, we’re no more interested than the specifics of current NFL overtime rules than you are right now. Go look them up if you are. The bottom line with Philadelphia’s proposal is that regular season games can still end in a tie.
Get Your Official Daily Dose Policy Right Here: This is wrong. Any change to the NFL’s overtime policy that allows for games to continue to end in a tie is merely pawing at air. Tie games are so 19th century and the fact one of the planet’s premier sports leagues still allows it is silly. Every game must have a winner. Fans, teams, and sponsors are all entitled to have every game played to a decision.
Oh, Jesus H/Here We Go: The NFL began regular season overtime in 1974. Before that, ties were fairly common, with only three seasons from 1920 through 1973 having zero ties and five seasons having at least ten ties.
The Bottom Line: We understand that professional football player is a brutal way to make a living, but we’re entitled to a winner in every game. Let’s be honest, though, nothing is going to change until the betting partners the NFL has crawled into bed with start losing money on tie games. Then something will be done.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow changes razor blade brands. Today’s Diary.
We were at the retailer and were going thru self-checkout with a pack of those orange Gillette Quintipio blades we’ve been using for years…Our buddy Ed is patrolling self-checkout this morning and starts touting the benefits of Harry’s blades…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1963 – Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closes after 29 years due to structural problems and the expense of keeping prisoners there. Over the years, 34 inmates in 14 attempts tried to escape. None are known to have made it to the mainland, with five listed as “missing and presumed drowned”. It cost about three times as much to keep a prisoner at Alcatraz than at another federal prison.
In 1953 – Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics establishes a new NBA playoff record for most free throws made in a 111-105, four-overtime win over the Syracuse Nationals in the second and final game of the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Cousy made 30 free throws, a record that still stands. The mark is the all-time NBA record, too, more than the 28 free throws made in a regular season game by Wilt Chamberlain and Adrian Dantley.
In 1964 – Tommy Tucker is at #1 on the Cash Box Top 100 Soul Singles chart – one of several chroniclers of American R&B music over the years – for the second of three non-consecutive weeks with Hi-Heel Sneakers. It was the first of two chart singles for Tucker and remains his only soul hit. The song also went #23 pop in Great Britain and peaked at #11 on the Hot 100, whose soul chart was not being published at the time.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I chuckled above my sorrows when I found out in all the haphazard my judgment or my good genius had faithfully stood by me.
Joshua Slocum
Sailing Alone Around the World
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
There wasn’t a trivia question last time, silly.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Which team won the NBA title in 1953? – Answer next time!
