{"database": "pelican", "table": "content", "rows": [["ryan", "musings", "This last weekend was the divisional round of the NFL playoffs. There were 3\nreally good games and the game that the Patriot played in. This is unfortunate\nbecause I only had the Patriots game on the calendar for the weekend so that\nmeant other things could get scheduled whenever and I would end up missing\nmany, if not all, of the other games.\n\nSunday had 2 amazing games. The Steelers lost to the Jaguars in an upset and I\ngot to see the last drive that put the Steelers down by a Field Goal as time\nexpired. It was simply amazing to see how hard they played even though they\nmust have known that they weren\u2019t going to win.\n\nWhen I got home from being out the New Orleans at Minnesota game was at half\ntime with Minnesota up 17-0. It looked like it was going to be a route and I\nwas glad that I wasn\u2019t really watching it.\n\nI started to do the chores that needed to be done (laundry, straightening up,\ngetting ready for the week) and had the game on in the background.\n\nAnd then the improbable started to happen. Drew Brees played an amazing half\nof football and all of a sudden it\u2019s 21-20 New Orleans. After a couple of\nfield goals are exchanged it\u2019s 24-23 New Orleans with Minnesota in possession\nof the ball.\n\nCase Keenum had made a couple of errors earlier in the game (one interception\nlead to a touch down and really helped the Saints get back in the game). It\nlooked like he was on track to do something similarly ill-advised.\n\nThen, with 10 seconds left the bar is snapped and he passes the ball to Stefon\nDiggs who catches the ball. And just as he catches the ball Marcus Williams, a\ndefensive back for New Orleans is cued up to make an ordinary tackle in an\nextraordinary situation.\n\nI was only on my high school football team for 2 years, but one thing the\ncoaches were always on us about was wrapping up the ball carrier when we were\ngoing to tackle. \u201cWrap him up\u201d they\u2019d scream at us. Over and over again.\n\nIt became something we did just so they\u2019d stop yelling at us (for that\nanyway).\n\nSo Marcus Williams is getting ready to tackle Stefon Diggs and all he has to\ndo is \u201cWrap him up!\u201d But something inside of Willliams\u2019 head is saying,\n\u201cSports Center highlight\u201d and instead of going for the boring, but effective\narm wrapping tackle, he tried to hit Diggs with his shoulder to hopefully get\nthe ball to be knocked loose.\n\nInstead, he whiffs by Diggs who spins, plants his hand on the ground to stay\nup and proceeds to run 60 yards for the game winning, walk-off, touchdown.\n\nI truly believe that Williams was thinking about how cool it would be to get\non Sport Center when he was deciding how to tackle Diggs, and that cost the\nSaints the game.\n\nDear Sports center, stop making our sports be bad and our athletes make dumb\ndecisions. Can you just go away now. Ok, thanks, bye\n\n", "2018-02-04", "the-sports-center-effect", "This last weekend was the divisional round of the NFL playoffs. There were 3\nreally good games and the game that the Patriot played in. This is unfortunate\nbecause I only had the Patriots game on the calendar for the weekend so that\nmeant other things could get scheduled whenever \u2026\n\n", "The Sports Center Effect", "https://www.ryancheley.com/2018/02/04/the-sports-center-effect/"]], "columns": ["author", "category", "content", "published_date", "slug", "summary", "title", "url"], "primary_keys": ["slug"], "primary_key_values": ["the-sports-center-effect"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7522935047745705}