Comeback from behind. There is no time element, nor point differential to be inferred that I have ever heard of understood as a given.
Otherwise, do you suggest putting the other team away in the fourth has criteria?
Dallas is up by 3 and stops the other team, then goes on a long drive to be up by 6 and wins. Does this qualify as putting the other team away?
Or is there some nebulous number in your mind that Dallas should have score several more times to make the game a lopsided affair? Is there something to be considered in the way the Cowboys put the other team away, which might indicate Dallas was the far better team and not just the winner?
As the fourth quarter plays out, and your team is behind by four, yet your defense can't seem to prevent long clock-eating drives from the other team, does the four point differential still rankle you if your team eventually overcomes?
You certainly are entitled to your opinion on what constitutes coming from behind or putting a team away. But in the context of singling out one player in a team sport where ten other players will be involved in the outcome seems more like a grudge match than some edict which embodies a tried and true, generally accepted rule about any sport where one team overcomes a deficit to win in the end.
"Putting a team away" is an entirely different conversation. I guess it does fit this discussion as it speaks to the improbability factor I mentioned. In order to be considered a comeback worthy of discussion, (not in the literal, technical interpretation) there needs to be at least a little of that 'feeling' that the team has been put away... but yet.... the put away team defies the odds and pulls a comeback out of its collective hat.
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You certainly are entitled to your opinion on what constitutes coming from behind or putting a team away. But in the context of singling out one player in a team sport where ten other players will be involved in the outcome seems more like a grudge match than some edict which embodies a tried and true, generally accepted rule about any sport where one team overcomes a deficit to win in the end."
The thread title, and hence the thread did the "singling out", not me.
Your experience is yours and I'm not quite as old as you, but I'm not far behind and my life's experience watching games with and interacting with a whole bunch of equally avid enthusiasts, I can say with complete confidence that before the explosion of fantasy football and all the stats that accompany it, at no time would anyone I know consider a small lead when the teams switch sides for the final time, to be a accolade worthy come from behind victory.
How far you want to take this technical/literal definition? By your standards wouldn't any game in which a team was behind by any margin at any time be considered a come from behind victory.
A 42-3 blowout would be considered a come from behind victory if the loser scored first after recovering a muffed opening kickoff, losing ten yards on three plays and kicking a field goal?
