IMPERIAL BOWL IX

[r00k]

Good morning Jester ... & all.

Vipers are in the locker room after taking warmups. There is a quiet hush as Head Coach Tyrell Nichols gives his last minute words.

May the best team win ... good luck, Jester.

[JesterBlaze]

Good luck to you as well, r00k. I don't know where the Phantoms are atm!?!??

[r00k]

I am exhausted.

So many opportunities ... for both teams to put this away.

but Shake Greene was just too much of a force today. Tobias must love having a target like that.

I really don't know where to start to recap ... just exhausted.

Congratualtions to getting your ring.

Talk to you more when I am more composed.

[JesterBlaze]

I am exhausted.

So many opportunities ... for both teams to put this away.

... just exhausted.

Talk to you more when I am more composed.

Fully understandable. I imploded when we accepted the 3rd down holding call on you and wasn't in a right state of mind the rest of the way.

Congratualtions to getting your ring.

Thanks a lot.

[Matt]

congrats to both of you guys. 2 great teams and 2 great owners

[Coder]

NC East represent! What is it now? Three straight finals and two consecutive bowl-wins? Congrats to both teams, but obviously, a little extra congrats to Jester!

[Argot]

Is that the first OT Imperial Bowl?

Congrats to my Defensive End Buddy!

[sovstar]

Congrats on the win, Jester. Double OT in the Imperial Bowl is insane. Great finish to the season.

[JesterBlaze]

I thank the IFL gods that no one ponied up enough to take Bucky Beaver off my hands this past off-season as I needed every bit of his 142 yards from scrimmage... but then he RETIRES after the game?!?!! So young, Bucky.... so young.

[sovstar]

Bucky pulled a Robert Smith (or Barry Sanders to non-Vikings fans).

[kingfc22]

Awesome game, FOF engine blows. I was shaking my head so many times in regards to the decisions to not kick FG's to win the game. Then 2OT does not start fresh with a coin toss, but continues from the 1st OT.

Simply unacceptable.

[Cringer]

Crap, double OT kind of helps this game live up and beyond the expectations. Great game guys.

Congrats Jester.

[sovstar]

Then 2OT does not start fresh with a coin toss, but continues from the 1st OT.

I don't think there is supposed to be another coin toss.

[sovstar]

There was 2 OT's in a 2004 NFL playoff game.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...pagewanted=all

That set up Carolina's final drive, interrupted only by the break at the end of the first overtime.
In that break, Fox shifted the play from one side of the field to the other, so Smith would have to beat only Rams safety Jason Sehorn. It worked, Delhomme lofting the perfect pass, Smith catching it in stride and sailing toward the end zone.

[tarcone]

Great game, guys. Congrats to both on great seasons. Nicely done, Jester.