History Main / WhoNeedsOvertime

* ''Film/{{The Replacements}}'': With a trip to the playoffs on the line, the Washington Sentinels, a team of scabs due to a strike, are trailing a powerful Dallas team that crossed the picket line earlier in the week. Nigel Gruff, the placekicker, goes on to kick the field goal and tie the game, but because he's threatened with losing his pub if he saves the game for the Sentinels, Falco, the QB and holder, changes the play, takes the ball for himself and rushes into the endzone for the game winning TD. Subverted, however, when a holding call negates the TD. Played straight however, when they try for the win on the next play and get the TD, earning the Sentinels a playoff spot (of course, Nigel was injured on the fake anyway and couldn't have kicked the field goal).

* Thus far, this has been true for the SuperBowl. In fifty years, not one Super Bowl has gone into overtime.

* Thus far, this has been true for the SuperBowl. In 49 years, not one Super Bowl has gone into overtime.

It's nearing the end of regulation of a sports contest the main characters are in, and it's a close game. Someone makes a comment that the team could tie it up, and beat the opposition in overtime.[[note]] for confused Brits: this does not refer to the enhanced pay rate earned when you exceed your weekly contactual hours at work. This is what British sporting convention refers to as '''Extra Time''', ie "Manchester United won the 1992 European Cup against Bayern Munich with two goals scored in extra time"[[/note]] They end up doing one better by getting the job done in regulation.

*** [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome "Can Manchester United score? They ALWAYS score..."]]

It's nearing the end of regulation of a sports contest the main characters are in, and it's a close game. Someone makes a comment that the team could tie it up, and beat the opposition in overtime.[[note for cpnfused Brits: this does not refer to the enhanced pay rate earned when you exceed yoyuur weekly contactual hours at work. This is what British sporting convention refers to as '''Extra Time''', ie "Manchester United won the 1992 European Cup against Bayern Munich with two goals scored in extra time"[[/note]] They end up doing one better by getting the job done in regulation.

It's nearing the end of regulation of a sports contest the main characters are in, and it's a close game. Someone makes a comment that the team could tie it up, and beat the opposition in overtime. They end up doing one better by getting the job done in regulation.

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* Practically every episode of ''HangTime''.

* ''HeyArnold!'', "Benchwarmer": With his team down by two with nine seconds remaining, instead of simply sinking the two free throws he's given and playing overtime, Arnold decides to deliberately miss the second freethrow to score a basket to win.

* Subverted in ''RocketPower'', "Power Play": Roller hockey match. Score, 3-4, Rockets down, with NHL pros game on the line. 12 seconds left. Dialog:

->''When we scored ... Joe Thornton said, "We don't do overtime!" I said, "Thank God we don't do overtime." We were getting ready for the overtime.''

* During game 6 of the 2013 StanleyCup Playoffs, the Chicago Blackhawks were down 2-1 to the Boston Bruins with less than two minutes to go in the third period. If Boston won, it would have forced a game 7. It would have been enough for Chicago's Bryan Bickell to score to tie the game, but just 17 seconds later, Dave Bolland scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal with just under a minute left in the game.

* Thus far, this has been true for the SuperBowl. In 48 years, not one Super Bowl has gone into overtime.

* September 28, 2011. The Divisional Races are decided, but the Wild Cards, thanks to [[TheDeterminator plucky efforts]] by St. Louis and Tampa Bay, and the respective collapses of Atlanta and Boston, enter this day tied. St. Louis and Tampa Bay won, Atlanta and Boston lost, meaning that no "extra game" would have to be played. Ironically, two of the four relevant games ''averted'' this Trope, with Tampa taking 12 innings to win, and Atlanta taking 13 innings to lose.

* In one of the most famous plays in NFL history, the Green Bay Packers defeated the Dallas Cowboys 21-17 in the 1967 NFL Championship (better known as the "Ice Bowl") on a last-second quarterback sneak from the goal line for a touchdown, when a short field goal would have tied the game and sent it to overtime. (They then advanced to the Super Bowl, which they also won.)
** Similarly, the announcers (and most others) thought the New England Patriots should run out the clock in Super Bowl XXXVI and go to overtime after the St. Louis Rams tied the game late, but instead they drove for the winning field goal.

* ''Film/TheWaterboy'': Only one more play is allowed in the championship game the score is 24-27, the Mud Dogs trailing, instead of kicking a field goal, Boucher and Grenoille opt for a halfback option pass play which is successful.
* In the Adam Sandler remake of ''Film/TheLongestYard'', The Convicts had just scored a touchdown on a trick play with no time left, putting them one point behind the Guards. They could have just kicked the extra point and sent the game into overtime, but instead, after a team vote, decided to go for two and the win. [[spoiler:They succeeded.]]

* [[CollegiateAmericanFootball In the 2013 Iron Bowl]], the Alabama Crimson Tide were ranked number 1 in the nation, and they were playing their rivals, number 4 Auburn, for the first winner-to-the-SEC-Championship Iron Bowl in history. Following an Auburn drive that scored a touchdown, tying the game 28-28 with only 34 seconds to go, Bama took over in their territory. Auburn stopped them from scoring and even forced a player out of bounds just as time expired, which stopped the clock. The play was reviewed, and one second was put back on the clock. Alabama attempted a 57-yard field goal. If it missed, the game would just go to overtime. Their starter had missed three earlier that game, so they put in the backup. He kicked the ball well, but it fell short, where Auburn returner Chris Davis waited. Davis then took the ball all the way back to the Alabama endzone to win the game 34-28.

* According to cricket enthusiast Jeff Soo, The United States Cricket Association, for a time, [[http://ipsedixit.net/croquet/articles/formats/ dropped the "if needed" game of their double elimination championships]] blending this trope with GoldenSnitch. It has since gone on to play "face-off draws", much like the NCAA Baseball Tournament, having each half of the field play a double-elim (with the if needed game restored), with the winers of those two tournaments playing in a final showdown.

* Thus far, this has been true for the SuperBowl. In 46 years, not one Super Bowl has gone into overtime.

** Apparently, Manchester United assistent manager Steve McClaren had asked his boss Sir Alex Ferguson whether United would return to 4-4-2 (from 4-3-3) in extra time. Ferguson replied "We'll win it before."

* Movie example: ''Film/TheMightyDucks''.

** 2013, during the CONCACAF World Cup Qualifiers. The US Men vs Jamaica. At 89', Jamaica put in a goal to tie the game at 1-1. This game would not have gone into extra time, as it was merely a qualifier and not a knockout game, but at 90'+3', Bradley Evans put in a goal that won the US the match, earning three points and winning their first of three June World Cup Qualifiers (all of which they won, putting them at the head of the hexagonal).

A subtrope of DownToTheLastPlay.

** Subverted, then played straight with a variation in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl featuring Oklahoma and Boise State. After Oklahoma rallied to tie it up late, Boise State got the ball and attempted to drive for the winning score--and immediately threw an interception, allowing Oklahoma to take their first lead of the game, 35-28. Boise State then used some trick plays to get a touchdown with 7 seconds left, settling for the extra point and overtime. Oklahoma got the ball first in OT and immediately got a 25-yard touchdown run. The Broncos then required some more trick plays to get a touchdown, but rather than kicking the extra point and trying to win in double-OT, they pulled ''yet another trick play'' out of the playbook and got the 2-point conversion to win it 43-42 in OT--thus, a variation, "Who Needs Double-Overtime?"

** This trope is also invoked by the manager of Turkey's team, Fatih Terim when he didn't train his team for the penalties on purpose against the Czech Republic.

* In 2010, the Philadelphia Eagles had just tied it up against the New York Giants with 14 seconds left on the clock and the Giants punting the ball. The snap was high and the punt instead of going out of bounds went right to [=DeSean=] Jackson who burnt the entire Giants Defense and scored a touchdown to win the game with no time left on the clock. Interestingly, besides winning the game for the Eagles it's also considered the most important plays for the ''Packers'' on their run to the Super Bowl, as the Giants' loss allowed the Packers to sneak into the playoffs ahead of them.

* Manchester United found themselves on the receiving end of this trope at the close of the 2011-12 Premier League season: going into the final day, they were level on points with crosstown rivals Manchester City, but their lower goal difference placed them second. After 90 minutes, City were down 2-1 to Queen's Park Rangers but had five minutes of stoppage time still to play, while United were leading Sunderland 1-0 and had three minutes of stoppage time. City equalised two minutes into injury time, and mere seconds after the final whistle blew at United's match, City scored ''again'' to win 3-2 and earn their first championship since 1968.
* The 1983 NCAA men's tournament final between underdog North Carolina State (coached by the late Jim Valvano) and "Phi Slamma Jamma" from the University of Houston (which had two future NBA All-Stars in Hakeem Olajuwan and Clyde Drexler) came down to the last possession tied at 52. NC State player Derek Whittenberg launched a long shot with 3 seconds to go, but his attempt fell far short of the rim...right into the hands of teammate Lorenzo Charles, who rose up to dunk it just as time expired.