Tyler Trumbauer
In case you slept in Sunday morning to ensure you were rested to watch the Eagles-Cowboys do battle on Sunday night, you missed an exhilarating London game, which ended in a 27-27 tie between the Washington Redskins and Cincinnati Bengals.
The Bengals, who have been involved in three of the last six ties in NFL history, certainly knew that a tie was possible.
Redskins head coach Jay Gruden said during his post game press conference that he did not know that after 75 minutes of football in the NFL, a game could end without a winner.
Gruden: “I don’t know how to react. I didn’t know it was possible to tie. There was a tie last week I was like ‘how heck did they tie?'”
— Mike Jones (@MikeJonesWaPo) October 30, 2016
Albert Breer of MMQB, however, believes Gruden may have just been poking fun at our old friend Donovan McNabb.
Jay Gruden’s got a pretty sarcastic streak … I’m gonna go ahead and assume he knew that you could tie.
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) October 30, 2016
The tie is the second one of the NFL season, which makes it the first time since 1997 that an NFL season featured two games which ended in ties.