Monday Night Football

I just watched that ridiculous "call time-out as the kicker kicks a field goal, making him have to re-kick it and thereby freezing him again" backfire, and I take special glee in the fact that it backfired on Mike Shanahan, who started this whole nonsense. He just pulled this nonsense, and while the kicker missed the first one he nailed the second. Shanahan gave the other team 3 points. Most of all I don't understand why a coach would do this in the first place - you're basically giving the kicker, whom you're trying to "freeze", a practice kick. A full dress rehearsal in front of everyone. So either he misses it and thinks "okay, I gotta adjust such and such way", and any jitters/nerves are probably gone for the re-kick. Or if he makes it he now knows he CAN make it, and is that much more confidant he'll hit the second one. AND, instead of just calling a regular timeout to freeze him, you've now used a non-play that can still get one of your players injured. To me, it's just plain stupid. As Tony Dungy said while eschewing it: "You don't give your opponent a practice free throw, do you?"