You win as a team or you lose as a team, right? Those are the two options in sports. They say a tie is like kissing your sister because… well, I don’t really know why; a tie is still better than a loss.

Over the weekend, football fans from around the country launched what seems to be an annual attack on ties still existing in the NFL. A four-hour game between the Detroit Lions and the Arizona Cardinals ended in a 27-27 tie and plenty of fans without a rooting interest in the game were mad they didn’t get to see a conclusion to a great contest which in their eyes made the game not so great.

Caleb Turrentine is a sports writer for Tallapoosa Publishers Inc.