Geno Smith’s call of heads during the overtime coin toss of Monday night’s thrilling game between the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers took on a life of its own on the internet, as many fans could have sworn they heard the backup QB call tails.
The whole thing quickly became the newest version of the Laurel or Yanny phenomenon, as it seemed lots of people were torn on what he said.
Who wasn’t torn – which should squash this debate – was 49ers CB Richard Sherman who was standing three feet from Smith when he made the call and didn’t have any type of reaction that would make one think that Smith didn’t call heads.
Smith explained to NFL Network’s Jim Trotter that he did in fact call heads and he had a reason for making the call:
Now I’m not great at math but that theory doesn’t seem to check out as being a good one, but whatever. It’s basically like saying: Tails never fails but once it succeeds it will likely follow up with a fail.
Sherman’s non-reaction is all I need to know that Smith called heads. This debate is now over!
