{"id":27862,"date":"2015-08-15T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27862"},"modified":"2015-08-08T10:41:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T14:41:19","slug":"qotd-the-i-didnt-do-it-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/08\/15\/qotd-the-i-didnt-do-it-gesture\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The &#8220;I didn&#8217;t do it!&#8221; gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Denver leading 21-10, the Chiefs threw incomplete on third-and-goal from the Broncs&#8217; 8. As the pass sailed out of bounds, Denver corner Chris Harris threw his hands up in the &#8220;I didn&#8217;t do it!&#8221; gesture. Penalty, automatic first down for Kansas City. Defenders should never make the &#8220;I didn&#8217;t do it!&#8221; gesture, which only alerts officials to the fact that they did it. In football, the &#8220;I didn&#8217;t do it!&#8221; gesture is regarded by zebras as a notarized confession after a Miranda warning.<\/p>\n<p>Gregg Easterbrook, <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/page\/TMQWeekTwo140916\/super-bowl-rematches-rare-events-tuesday-morning-quarterback\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;TMQ: Super Bowl rematches rare events&#8221;, <em>ESPN.com<\/em><\/a>, 2014-09-16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver leading 21-10, the Chiefs threw incomplete on third-and-goal from the Broncs&#8217; 8. As the pass sailed out of bounds, Denver corner Chris Harris threw his hands up in the &#8220;I didn&#8217;t do it!&#8221; gesture. Penalty, automatic first down for Kansas City. Defenders should never make the &#8220;I didn&#8217;t do it!&#8221; gesture, which only alerts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,57,41],"tags":[767,672,179],"class_list":["post-27862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-denver","tag-kansascity","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7fo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27863,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27862\/revisions\/27863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}