The Illuminated Donkey

I stopped reading the Indymedia sites a while ago but fortunately Damian Penny hasn’t, or else I would have missed out on their expert Super Bowl coverage. After quoting some accusations of an Amerikkkan-rigged game in favor of the Patriots, Damian singles out one post as the "big winner":

it's true, it's true
the super bowl ended prematurely.
with 7 seconds left to play in the game the New England patriots kicked a field goal.
the ball sailed through the uprights with 3 seconds to go, landing with maybe at least two seconds to go.
according to the rules the clock should then stop.
an ensuing kick-off with at least two seconds should have taken place but the clock continued to tick and time expired.
they showed the replay and it was the same times on the clocks.

Okay, it's hard to read and he then goes on to rant about the World Economic Forum, but the thing is this guy is absolutely right! There was clearly time remaining on the clock after the winning field goal, and I was deprived of one of my favorite things in all of sports: the desperation play. There’s almost nothing in sports I like better than the Hail Mary at the end of a football or basketball half or, in this case, the insane Cal-Stanford-style kickoff return after all hope is seemingly lost. Dammit, get the teams back down to New Orleans, there’s still plenty of time on the clock!