LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — There are formal appeals in professional football.
They involve paperwork, precedent, and men who use the word "framework" without irony. They take time. They produce memos. They end, almost always, exactly where they were going to end anyway.
Chris Redman seems to have another plan.
"Maybe get a couple of drinks in Repole," Redman said in a conversation with ESPN Louisville radio host Drew Deener.
Now we're talking.
Because in a league where the rules can change between Sundays, it stands to reason the standings might be negotiable somewhere between the second bourbon and the third.
The Louisville Kings lost a football game on April 10 in a fashion so peculiar it felt less like defeat and more like a clerical error. Overtime arrived. Orlando's team did not score a touchdown. It did not kick a field goal. And yet, by the time it was over, the Kings had somehow lost anyway, on a pair of penalties that ended the night not with a play, but with a conclusion.
The league looked at it, listened to the noise, and changed the rule six days later, with the support of league co-owner Mike Repole.
Which is both admirable and a little unsettling, depending on how much you value permanence in your outcomes.
Redman, for his part, watched all of this and arrived at a simple, stubborn conclusion: if nobody crossed the goal line, then nobody really won.
"We're gonna ask for a tie," he said. “… I feel like we went to overtime with those guys, and they didn't officially beat us. We lost on two penalties. … I’m gonna fight for my team.”
Not demand. Not protest. Ask.
It sounds like a joke, and maybe some of it is. But Redman does plan to have a conversation.
And it’s also not entirely unreasonable in a league that prides itself on being responsive, flexible, and just a little bit improvisational. The NFL would assign a committee. The UFL might assign a meeting.
Preferably one on the rocks.
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