{"id":1689,"date":"2008-12-21T22:55:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T05:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:27","slug":"carolina-panthers-lose-it-in-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/carolina-panthers-lose-it-in-ot\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers lose it in OT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t spend a lot of time watching sports, but I happened to catch the Carolina Panthers game tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 They played the NY Giants, which means my wife and I were on the rare &#8216;same side&#8217; while watching the game.\u00c2\u00a0 I grew up in North Carolina, so the Panthers were an obvious choice for me, but she likes &#8216;anyone playing the Giants&#8217;.\u00c2\u00a0 I enjoyed telling my son what the plays were, and how to read the downs from the stats on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>I do wish I was more of a sports fan for the sake of my son.\u00c2\u00a0 He hardly knows football from basketball.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway &#8211; the Panthers missed a field goal in the fourth that would have won the game &#8211; then just didn&#8217;t show up to the overtime.\u00c2\u00a0 The Giants force a punt, but almost lost possession when the receiver didn&#8217;t call for a fair catch and lost control of the ball.\u00c2\u00a0 The Giants all but walked the ball into the end zone after that play.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a hard time picking winners &#8211; maybe that&#8217;s why I never got into sports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t spend a lot of time watching sports, but I happened to catch the Carolina Panthers game tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 They played the NY Giants, which means my wife and I were on the rare &#8216;same side&#8217; while watching the game.\u00c2\u00a0 I grew up in North Carolina, so the Panthers were an obvious choice for me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2737,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}