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Like most of you, the prospect of the 1/2 point conversion change led to many sleepless nights. What would the impact be to the line? Certainly, I am destined to lose a game because a missed extra point fails to cover the spread.
We already felt the impact last night. First, the Steelers trolled the Patriots by scoring a 2 point conversion with a hard slant pass from the 2 (anyone else catch that one?). But more to the point, with no time remaining, the Steelers faced one of the biggest decisions of the NFL season:
Go for 1 in wet conditions with a shaky kicker who had already missed 2x to PUSH the spread...
OR...
Go for 2 and COVER the spread and piss off Patriot fans everywhere.
They went for 1 and I've never been so nervous for an extra point. Would the Vegas Gods allow such a thing as a PUSH in this game? They did. And 1 game out of 256, we've already seen how this new rule will wreck havoc on us bettors with yet another distinct element of unpredictability.
We already felt the impact last night. First, the Steelers trolled the Patriots by scoring a 2 point conversion with a hard slant pass from the 2 (anyone else catch that one?). But more to the point, with no time remaining, the Steelers faced one of the biggest decisions of the NFL season:
Go for 1 in wet conditions with a shaky kicker who had already missed 2x to PUSH the spread...
OR...
Go for 2 and COVER the spread and piss off Patriot fans everywhere.
They went for 1 and I've never been so nervous for an extra point. Would the Vegas Gods allow such a thing as a PUSH in this game? They did. And 1 game out of 256, we've already seen how this new rule will wreck havoc on us bettors with yet another distinct element of unpredictability.
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