[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by YDFL Commish

Yes you did, but cannot two things be true at the same time ???

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Sure, 2 things can both be true. In this case, I don't think that they are. If the missed extra point had occurred midway through the 4th quarter, then I would agree that it probably had cost the Colts a chance of sending the game into OT because of the way that the Colts' final drive played out. It didn't. It occurred in the 1st quarter, and therefore had very little to do with the ultimate outcome of this game. The OP suggested that ...... "Badgley’s missed kick hung over the game like a spectre that came back to haunt us in the end, like Marley‘s ghost in a Dickens’s tale. On the final series, if Houston’s lead had been three instead of four, they could have run Taylor up the gut on the final two plays, run out the clock, and sent Badgley out to send the game into overtime." ...... to say that that insinuation/inference is an exaggeration of the importance of the missed extra point in the 1st quarter would be putting it mildly. I doubt that any of the Colts players or coaches were thinking about it more than 5 minutes after it happened. And after the Colts failed to convert on 4th down on their final drive of the 4th quarter, I don't think that anyone on the Colts' team or the Colts' sideline was thinking that the only reason why they went for it on 4th down was because of the missed extra point which occurred more than 3 quarters earlier.

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