Reading sports media more regularly, as someone who doesn’t know all that much about sports, is great because it teaches me the ways that all kinds of game design are kind of the same, or at least rhyme. I love learning shit like this, and also I think more games of any kind should be filled with weird vestigial shit
The two-minute warning was invented by the NFL in 1942 to do exactly what its name promised: to warn game officials that only two minutes remained in the game, because stadiums had no visible clocks back then. So we’re talking about a rule that had well-intended origins and remained a lasting quirk in the rulebook ever since. I like weird shit like that. Keeping those old odds and ends imbues every game with a bit of vestigial history.
