When the stars align, and you are reading the very chapter covering the David Ayres game in Odd Man In: Hockey’s Emergency Goalies and the Wildest One-Day Job in Sports by Stephen Whyno on the anniversary of the game, you write a book review.
No one is getting called out of the left field bleachers at Wrigley Field to pitch the top half of the 9th inning in a 1-1 game for the Cubs. The water boy for Panthers (despite Adam Sandler’s best efforts) is not going to record a 5 sack game in the Super Bowl.