One of the worst things in sports happened on Sunday night.
The Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys battled to a 40-40 tie that was a spectacular game in regulation and a real head-scratcher in overtime, namely down to some odd time management from the Packers.
The Cowboys had the ball first in overtime and settled for a field goal. The Packers took over with 4:40 on the clock, and with 1:15 remaining had the ball on the Dallas 25-yard line, in field goal range.
The Packers ran a bizarre sequence from there, seemingly happy to settle for a tie with a series of short throws until the very end of hte game, when the Packers snapped the ball on a running clock with about six seconds remaining and Jordan Love took a shot to the end zone.
It was incomplete and somehow the Packers had a second remaining to kick the field goal, finishing the game in a tie. But nobody had any idea what the Packers were doing with their late-game clock management:
In the end, there was nothing to separate the Cowboys and Packers, and NFL fans were left with an electrifying but ultimately anticlimactic tie.
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