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Tuesday, 31 October 2006

I got forwarded this video by a friend whose sense of humor is a sometimes little more cruel than I'm usually comfortable with. But I watched, and I wound up laughing for a different reason than I think he did:

Look again. What's funny to me here isn't just the remarkably unfortunate bounce (although the 10-year-old in me couldn't help but snicker) -- it's that the goalie inadvertently makes the save.

I will think of this video now every time someone screws up completely and still manages to get things right in the end. Trebekistan has whole passages about this. We all screw up, constantly. Your sympathy here isn't with the kicker, is it? It's with the goalie. You know the feeling. That's a large part of why this is so funny. But things can still come out OK. There is always hope.

The kid makes the save. This video is a tremendous reminder that things can still work out, I think.

Also, well, snicker.