Weird NFL rule ends 48-year hiatus, plus college football history is nigh

The Pulse Newsletter???? | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! It’s free kick Friday. While You Were Sleeping: Little-used rule boosts Chargers Last night’s 34-27 Chargers win over the Broncos featured two ingredients for a great football game:  1. Playoff implications: L.A. now ties Denver at 9-6 in the standings and assures itself of the tiebreaker. This will almost certainly be a wild-card team. We should give Jim Harbaugh plenty of flowers for taking a five-win team and turning it into this.

Weird NFL rule ends 48-year hiatus, plus college football history is nigh
The Pulse Newsletter???? | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! It’s free kick Friday. While You Were Sleeping: Little-used rule boosts Chargers Last night’s 34-27 Chargers win over the Broncos featured two ingredients for a great football game:  1. Playoff implications: L.A. now ties Denver at 9-6 in the standings and assures itself of the tiebreaker. This will almost certainly be a wild-card team. We should give Jim Harbaugh plenty of flowers for taking a five-win team and turning it into this.