You May Have Been Watching the Wrong Kind of Football This Weekend.

America was huddled inside this holiday weekend enjoying what turned out to be a pretty good slate of NFL Playoff games.  Two of the four games were overtime thrillers that led to the Rams and Broncos squeaking out dramatic victories to face the Seahawks and Patriots in their respective division championships.  While Caleb Williams confirmed to everyone he’s playing in a video game with this game tying completion to Cole Kmet 

And Buffalo was sent home complaining about this interception call,

Senegal and Morocco were putting on the most dramatic and controversial event of the weekend.  The Finals of the African Cup of Nations took place Sunday afternoon and it provided unpredictable drama that started a day before the match was even played.  Senegal arrived in Morocco days ahead of the game to discover their practice field was in Morocco’s training facility.  Whoever was the mastermind of that scheduling must have studied at the Bill Belichick school of “How to Steal Opponents Tactics”.

This was just the beginning of what would turn out to be one of the craziest endings to a sporting event.

The game remained scoreless until the officials added 8 minutes of extra time.   In the 94th minute Senegal scored the game winner off a corner kick.  But, after reviewing the referee whips the goal off the board citing this questionable foul.

Moments later Morocco is on the attack. And get the benefit of the whistle again.

Senegal is overcome with frustration and walks off in protest.

The Referee doesn’t abandon the game and give Morocco the victory before Sadio Mane’ gets his team to come back onto the pitch to play it out.

The leadership by Mane’ proved to be a defining moment in Senegal history. Senegal ends up icing the kicker so bad people are wondering if Barham Diaz did this on purpose.

The game went to overtime and Senegal buried one into the top corner for the game winner.

Sports always have a way of bringing out the best and the worst in people. Senegal should be grateful that on this day it brought out the best in Sadio Mane’. Without him daring to defy the orders of his coaches this result probably doesn't occur.