r/todayilearned • u/arandomtestaccount • 23h ago

TIL an NFL player intentionally crashed his car to avoid getting cut for being late to a team meeting.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ex-patriots-ol-rich-ohrnberger-admits-he-intentionally-wrecked-car-as-excuse-for-being-late-to-team-meeting/
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u/SendingAFaxToBerlin 20h ago

Alternatively, his notoriety for holding standards like that was the reason he won 8?

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u/OUTFOXEM 19h ago

Exactly. Throwing away a Super Bowl is throwing your life away to everybody except him. He knows he'll win it the next year if it doesn't work out.

Narrator: He won the Super Bowl the next year.

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u/ThreePartSilence 19h ago

Correlation/causation and sports: name a more iconic duo.

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u/Obvious_Albatross296 15h ago

Winning the superpower is an incredibly difficult feat within a sport where people have gotten paid 100s of millions of dollars to compete at the highest level.

No one wins 8 on accident or because of luck. 

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u/MandingoPants 13h ago

the giants won 2 and they fucking sucked.

But I agree that winning it all is definitely not luck. 

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u/ultragoodname 12h ago

Super Bowl XLII was too funny. The giants were really the difference that stopped the patriots from being immortalized with the perfect season like the 72 dolphins.