Watching the end of the Jets game last night got me thinking that Nashville probably just wanted to throw in the towel. I know I would have. So I thought, well, in curling you just call the game when you decide you can't win. What other sports in high level competition can you decide to end it? Any famous cases of a team quitting when the sport rules don't allow it?
Golf match play allows it on holes. I think you can do it on the match as well.
Baseball should allow it after the game becomes official. It gets a little silly when position players come out to pitch in a 20-1 game. I'm sure there are cases where a team that has locked up their place in the standings doesn't want to burn out pitchers by going 20 innings either.
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I think you can quit pretty much any type of race (cycling, running, swimming, etc.). You get a nice DNF instead of having to explain why you were so far behind the winner.
I think you can quit pretty much any type of race (cycling, running, swimming, etc.). You get a nice DNF instead of having to explain why you were so far behind the winner.
Haha, oh right. Back in my racing days I'd always strive for a DFL over DNF.
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Except you're not supposed to unless there's a good reason for it, e.g. injury. So it's not really in the rules. Everyone thinks Tomic is a complete and utter tool.
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U.S. football and the kneel down to end the half or game. That kind of stretches the definition of quitting but with the NFL's ridiculously long play clock teams can pretty much walk off the field with almost a minute left. Canadian rules are not quite as bad but it can still be done.
Moscow Red Army briefly walked off the ice during a game vs .Philadelphia in 1976 but returned to finish it.
U.S. football and the kneel down to end the half or game. That kind of stretches the definition of quitting but with the NFL's ridiculously long play clock teams can pretty much walk off the field with almost a minute left. Canadian rules are not quite as bad but it can still be done.
Moscow Red Army briefly walked off the ice during a game vs .Philadelphia in 1976 but returned to finish it.
I was coaching in a game and we were over matched badly, but we stuck in the game til late. then the other team started taking liberties and also trying to run up the score on us.
Our bench was doing a slow burn, and I knew we were in trouble when our QB told me he wanted to run the ball so he could truck a player.
I had just finished talking to the team about not stooping to the other teams level, and that we don't quit and we don't give up, when the head coach came up to me and told me to put in our backup and take a knee to run the clock out.
D'oh
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Thats the victory formation though - you are winning not losing or quitting.
Teams that are behind often do it at the half too. Not quitting the game but essentially giving up on the half. But as I mentioned, this really is stretching the definition of quitting.
Sports you can quit
