Even the most die-hard sports fans can get jaded by highlights sometimes. To those fans, we have just one request: Please watch this video.
We take you to eastern Nebraska, where Waverly played Blair in a high school basketball game Friday night. It was an exciting contest, with the score tied at 50 in the final seconds.
Then everything went haywire in one of the craziest endings to a sporting event you’ll ever see — and we mean that.
What you just witnessed was not one, not two, but three buzzer-beaters in a 4.5-second span.
Blair’s first desperation heave, a incredible highlight in its own right, was waved off because the referees called a foul before the shot. Waverly appeared to respond with its own miraculous bucket, but that also didn’t count, as Waverly’s head coach called a timeout before the incredible half-court runner bounced into .
That all set up what actually was the “easiest” buzzer-beater of the three: A banked-in 3-pointer by Waverly’s Merrick Deger to lift the home team to an improbable 53-50 victory.
If this bonkers sequence doesn’t restore your love of sports, we don’t know what will.
